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Martin Fisher has won the 2008 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability for his work helping lift African farmers out of poverty through a combination of technological invention and business development.

KickStart co-founder receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability

Inventor's irrigation pumps help lift African farmers out of poverty

April 23, 2008

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

April 15, 2008

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Listen to an enhanced--but very low frequency--audio version of the underwater
sound of Hurricane Gert (above, in a colorized infrared image). MIT researcher
Nick...

How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

April 9, 2008

The creators of the MIT six-rotor vehicle, above, developed in collaboration with Ascending Technologies GmbH in Germany, won a tie for first place in a competition to develop a micro air vehicle to aid in a hypothetical hostage situation.

Awards & Honors

April 2, 2008

Participants in Baqaa Filming Workshop from 'Envisioning Jerusalem through Media Barrios and Performance Spaces,' which was one of the top prize winners in MIT's Jerusalem 2050 Program.

'Just Jerusalem' competition winners announced

March 21, 2008

MIT students Maria Luckyanova and Philip Garcia (at right) operate their prosthetic-fitting device at the Jaipur Foot Organization headquarters in India in January, as JFO specialists work on fitting a prosthetic leg on a patient.

A leg to stand on

March 5, 2008

NYTE's Globe Encounters visualizes in real time the volumes
of Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world. The
size of the glow on a particular city location corresponds to the amount of
IP traffic flowing between that place and New York City. <a href="http://senseable2.mit.edu/nyte/images/hres/01%20nyte%20-%20globe%20encounters.tif"><strong>Full-size image</strong...

The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

February 18, 2008

Inclusiveness, optimism among strengths of HST's Gray

February 13, 2008

An MIT student and collaborators have designed the uBox, a 'smart' pillbox that dispenses pills, alerts the patient that it's time to take the medication, records the time the pill was taken and prevents double-dosing.

Smart pillbox could be a lifesaver

February 6, 2008

Robert P. Greene, alum and former administrator, 74

January 28, 2008

A Sudanese farmer operates a treadle-powered foot pump. Two MIT students have set up a company to sell the pumps to help subsistence farmers in the region.

Pumping up desert agriculture

January 23, 2008

MIT nutrition scientist celebrates a milestone

January 18, 2008

MIT Energy Initiative announces first seed grant winners for energy research

More than $1.6 million to fund projects

January 15, 2008

Recipients of first round of seed grants for MIT energy research

January 15, 2008

Mark Bear, director of the Picower Institute and Picower Professor of Neuroscience (right), and GÃ¼l DÃ¶len, a graduate student at Brown University, report the correction of fragile X syndrome in mice.

MIT corrects inherited retardation, autism in mice

Research points to potential drug treatment for humans

December 19, 2007

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