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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

February 22, 2008

MIT physicist to describe strange world of quarks, gluons

February 17, 2008

Inclusiveness, optimism among strengths of HST's Gray

February 13, 2008

Interview with the dean: Marc Kastner, MIT School of Science

February 6, 2008

Stubbe honored by NAS

January 30, 2008

Singapore's SMART Centre to be intellectual hub for global researchers

January 22, 2008

American Mathematical Society honors Lusztig

January 16, 2008

Waitz to lead Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

January 11, 2008

Brain activity in East Asians and Americans as they make relative and absolute judgments. The arrows point to brain regions involved in attention that are engaged by more demanding tasks. Americans show more activity during relative judgments than absolute judgments, presumably because the former task is less familiar and hence more demanding for them. East Asians show the opposite pattern.

Culture influences brain function, study shows