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Clay announces steps to improve mental health, other health services

August 28, 2001

Sen. John Kerry spoke at the conference on "Health Care, East and West, Moving Into the 21st Century." He noted his own positive experience with Eastern medicine when he was injured in Vietnam.

Chinese, American doctors meet at Institute for medical exchange

July 18, 2001

Chinese, American doctors meet at MIT for medical exchange

June 26, 2001

NASA's Goldin predicts MIT graduates will accomplish the next technological and scientific revolution

June 8, 2001

Commencement address by Daniel S. Goldin

June 8, 2001

MIT and NASA: a match made in the heavens

June 6, 2001

'Mind and Hand' opens at MIT Museum

June 6, 2001

Professor Dava J. Newman shows the degree of mobility in the space suit she and colleagues designed and which they hope will be used in a future mission to Mars. Current space suits have feet that simply lock into place, but those in the next-generation suit will need to be able to move around more freely.

Videoconference looks at solutions to problems of traveling to Mars

May 23, 2001

Professors Seyferth, Brown named to NAS

May 9, 2001

Tarokh wins Waterman Prize

May 9, 2001

MIT to create three new environmental projects as part of agreement with EPA

April 25, 2001

Lori Tsuruda and her dog, Vesta.

Alumna makes a career out of helping others

April 25, 2001

MIT to create three environmental projects as part of EPA agreement

April 18, 2001

This diagram illustrates a synapse in the central nervous system. Neurotransmitter molecules are released from presynaptic terminals along the axon of nerve Cell A, travel through the synaptic cleft and reach the postsynaptic terminal on Cell B's dendrite. If the transmitter released reaches a peak concentration quickly (within 1 millisecond) as in a mature release, receptors can detect the messag...

Neurons release neurotransmitters slowly at times, research shows

March 9, 2001

This diagram illustrates a synapse in the central nervous system. Neurotransmitter molecules are released from presynaptic terminals along the axon of nerve Cell A, travel through the synaptic cleft and reach the postsynaptic terminal on Cell B's dendrite. If the transmitter released reaches a peak concentration quickly (within 1 millisecond) as in a mature release, receptors can detect the messag...

Neurotransmitters released slowly at times, work shows

March 8, 2001