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Kinney named director of arts initiatives

September 9, 2008

From left to right, Broad Institute Director Eric Lander, MIT President Susan Hockfield, Harvard President Drew Gilpin Faust, Eli and Edythe Broad, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Nobel Laureate David Baltimore of Caltech at the Sept. 4 press conference announcing the Broad's $400 million gift.

Philanthropists Eli and Edythe L. Broad make unprecedented gift to endow the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

$400 million endowment gift brings total commitment to $600 million; Novel experiment in new way of doing science declared early success

September 4, 2008

Two children in their best clothes climb between the cars in a gridlocked parking lot. In the Bamako market cars are often parked three or four deep, and leaving means waiting for the owners of the cars in front of you to finish shopping. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('rotch-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Photo exhibit provides glimpse of Malian capital

August 12, 2008

A team from the International Development Design Summit at MIT created a cable-car-like ropeway to transport goods uphill.

Improving people's lives, one device at a time

International workshop looks for simple solutions to big problems

August 8, 2008

Not quite a teen, not fully an adult

New MIT report sheds light on young adults' triumphs, traumas

August 1, 2008

MIT PhD candidate wins Marconi Young Scholars award

Award was launched this year with financial help of MIT professor

July 25, 2008

Alex d'Arbeloff, former MIT Corporation chairman, dies at 80

July 9, 2008

Dr. Joseph DeSimone of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is the 2008 recipient of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for his inventions in green manufacturing, nanomedicine and medical devices, in addition to his lab-to-market entrepreneurship and commitment to mentorship. Here, polymer expert DeSimone holds a drum of his PRINT molds, which can manufacture highly customizable and contro...

Polymer expert DeSimone wins $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize

June 25, 2008

Media Lab celebrates co-founder Davenport's career

Symposium honors interactive media pioneer's legacy

June 25, 2008

Lemelson-MIT's EurekaFest to celebrate inventing

June 24, 2008

The MIT-designed Digital Water Pavilion, featuring water walls that can be programmed to display patterns and images, was unveiled June 12 at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('zaragoza-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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MIT Digital Water Pavilion makes a splash in Spain

Programmable water walls can 'open like the Red Sea for Moses'

June 11, 2008

Commencement address by Muhammad Yunus

"Each of you has the power to change the world"

June 6, 2008

Yunus tells MIT grads they can 'change the world'

June 6, 2008

Anthropology awards

June 4, 2008

'Jumbled Tubes' by Sarah Dunbar G, winner of a 2008 Laya and Jerome B. Wiesner Award.

Arts awards