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James Levi Schmidt, a member of an MIT class on wheelchair design for the developing world, tests a prototype of a wheelchair that was converted into a tricycle powered by hand-operated pedals.

On a roll: Students help bring mobility to developing countries

May 21, 2008

Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

Professor Nancy Leveson has developed unique approach to managing risky businesses

May 21, 2008

MIT class asks: Fly me to the moon?

May 21, 2008

Hope on the horizon: Problem solving

May 21, 2008

MIT researchers have figured out how the phalarope, a shorebird with a long, narrow beak, transports its food from the tip of its beak to its mouth. Here the bird feeds by pecking at the water surface.

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

Shorebirds take advantage of surface tension to capture prey

May 15, 2008

MIT students propose X-Prizes for health

New collaboration with foundation yields innovative ideas

May 13, 2008

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

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Who ya gonna call? Riskbuster!

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Hope on the horizon: Problem solving

MIT solves gravity-defying bird beak mystery

MIT students propose X-Prizes for health

Mapping Earth's soil moisture

Teams unravel heparin death mystery

Edwards urges students to make themselves heard

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

Catching planets in the making

'Just Jerusalem' competition winners announced

New York exhibits showcase MIT's arts clout

Interview with the dean: Subra Suresh, School of Engineering

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