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Hartley Rogers (far left) and his co-coach Richard P. Stanley (far right), celebrate with the team that came in second place in the Putnam math competition: (left to right) Reid W. Barton, Abhinav Kumar and Pavlo M. Pylyavskyy.

Math students finish 2nd in Putnam competition

May 15, 2002

'BollySpace' melds Indian film traditions with digital media

May 8, 2002

Walter A. Rosenblith

Retired MIT Professor Rosenblith dies at 88; Pioneered use of computers to study brain

May 3, 2002

Four students win Sun MISTI summer internships abroad

May 1, 2002

Writer-in-Residence reads today from book on personal pilgrimage

April 10, 2002

John Wynne, retired vice president, dies at 81

April 3, 2002

Retired MIT Vice President John Wynne dies at 81 in the Dominican Republic

March 28, 2002

Students participating in a MacVicar Day videoconference were (left to right) Rebecca Griffiths, Maral Shamloo, Tim Richards, Gina Kim, Kevin Lang. Professor John Vander Sande moderated

Students on MacVicar Day panel describe educational experiences

March 6, 2002

Artist's impression of the hottest tango in the universe--a torus formed from the debris of a star spins around a rotating black hole. The black hole leads the torus around, feeding it energy which the torus radiates away as unseen gravitational waves. At the same time, jets of energy are released along the black hole's axis of rotation and may later be detected by satellites as gamma-ray bursts.

Black hole/star tangos may explain cosmic explosions

February 27, 2002

Here & There

February 27, 2002

NSF offers four paid internships in India

February 27, 2002

Students to be stars of MacVicar Day

February 27, 2002

World Bank President to be 2002 Commencement speaker on June 7

February 27, 2002

James D. Wolfensohn

World Bank President to speak at MIT Commencement on June 7

February 26, 2002

An artist's impression of the hottest tango in the universe. The remnants of a star, now really a donut-shaped ring or torus, spin around a rotating black hole in a sort of cosmic tango. The black hole leads its passive torus-partner around, feeding it energy through the many magnetic field lines entangling the two cosmic bodies like entwined arms. The torus in t...

Tango between black hole and star remnant may explain cosmic explosion

February 21, 2002