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Faculty honor Virginia Tech victims, applaud Edgerton winner, in April meeting

April 20, 2007

Nobel laureate and MIT Professor of Biology H. Robert Horvitz

Horvitz will deliver Killian Lecture on April 24

April 20, 2007

CrossTalk panel explores: Are visualizations eye candy or educational tools?

April 17, 2007

Sen. Edward Kennedy, MIT President Susan Hockfield and Harvard President Derek Bok at a luncheon at MIT's Gray House. Hockfield and Bok announced the expansion of the Kennedy Scholarship program.

MIT and Harvard to expand Kennedy Scholarship Program

April 13, 2007

Larger-scale folds develop the fastest in premature (born more than seven weeks early) infants (top), while medium-scale folds develop the fastest in older premature infants, born between seven and two weeks early (middle). In older infants and children, fine folds develop the most quickly across the brain surface (bottom).

Model helps researchers 'see' brain development

Work could facilitate early detection of autism

April 10, 2007

Computer model mimics blink of a human eye

April 4, 2007

$Atomistic simulation provides unparalleled insight into fracture processes. Under the weight of an applied load, a crack in a silicon crystal (above, left) propagates until the crystal is cleaved.$

Think small! Think quickly! Atomistic model helps students visualize nanoscale problems

Software designed for genetics shows how materials behave under extreme loading

April 2, 2007

Swager, of chemistry, wins $500K Lemelson-MIT Prize

April 2, 2007

Infectious diseases to be first focus of Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology

March 30, 2007

MIT professor Penny Chisholm, left, and principal research scientists Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz have created an ocean model in which the populations of "sown" microbes precisely mimic real-world patterns of the same organisms.

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing

March 29, 2007

Image above shows the emergent ocean ecosystem community structure. The phytoplankton community is organized according to relative fitness in the physical, chemical, and predatory environment.

MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes

March 29, 2007

Faculty discuss improving teaching, undergraduate experience

March 23, 2007

A Cambridge biotechnology company plans to market absorbable, super strong sutures produced using a recombinant DNA technique developed at MIT.

Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

March 22, 2007

Faculty will meet March 21

March 21, 2007

This is a ribbon diagram of the enzyme BluB, which MIT researchers have shown catalyzes the formation of DMB, a fragment of vitamin B12. The stick drawings (in yellow, red and blue) represent cofactors that the enzyme cannibalizes to form DMB.

MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle