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Professor Dara Entekhabi will lead the science team for NASA's Soil Moisture Active-Passive (SMAP) satellite mission, scheduled to launch in December 2012. A 6-meter deployable mesh antenna on the satellite will gather soil moisture and freeze/thaw data across 1,000-kilometer swaths, creating ribbons of measurements around the globe and completing the cycle every few days.

Mapping Earth's soil moisture

Entekhabi to lead science team for NASA satellite mission

April 28, 2008

Top image depicts the chemical structure of chondroitin sulfate, the contaminant found in batches of heparin. Bottom image shows the chemical structure of normal heparin.

Teams unravel heparin death mystery

April 23, 2008

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards gives one of the opening keynote addresses at a student-organized conference on global poverty held at MIT April 18-20.

Edwards urges students to make themselves heard

Conference hears about ways to fight global poverty

April 18, 2008

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

April 15, 2008

MIT's team competes at the International Collegiate Programming Contest.

MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

April 11, 2008

The unusual geometry of this star system made it possible for researchers to discover the first evidence of the middle stages of planet formation. Above, one star rises above the obscuring disk of matter, and its light becomes visible.

Catching planets in the making

Team sees first signs of formation's middle stages

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

Erik Demaine, left, the Esther and Harold Edgerton Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, and his father, CSAIL visiting scientist Martin Demaine, model a couple of their sculptures in a Museum of Modern Art show titled 'Design and the Elastic Mind,' which runs until early May.

New York exhibits showcase MIT's arts clout

March 18, 2008

Dean of the School of Engineering, Subra Suresh.

Interview with the dean: Subra Suresh, School of Engineering

March 17, 2008

Solving the drug price crisis

March 17, 2008

MIT Professor Peter Fisher celebrates with NBC's Conan O'Brien dur-ing an episode that aired in early February. Fisher, who helped the comedian spin his wedding ring on his desk for 51 seconds, is one of many MIT professors hitting the airwaves recently.

MIT physicists bask in the media limelight

Featured on late-night TV, '60 Minutes'

March 5, 2008

MLK celebration keynote speech by the Rev. Dr. Ray Hammond

February 28, 2008

Philip Lessard, Kazuhiko Kurosawa and Anthony Sinskey display a new type of antibiotic they produced by pitting two strains of bacteria against one another. Lessard, a research scientist, and postdoc Kurosawa work in the MIT lab of Sinskey, a professor of microbiology and health sciences and technology.

Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

Holds promise for treating stomach ulcers

February 26, 2008

MLK celebration speech by MIT senior Jamira Cotton

February 22, 2008

Math professor and crossword puzzle fiend Kiran Kedlaya works on Friday's New York Times puzzle. He will compete in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament on Feb. 29.

MIT's crossword king girds for annual battle of wits