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MIT student Julia Kiberd '08 pedals the specially adapted exercise bike, generating power for the laptop she's using to check her e-mail. Helping to host the Student Center display of the bike are (from left) technical instructor Stephen Rudolph, Kendra Johnson '09, IT energy coordinator Laxmi Rao and civil and environmental engineering senior research associate John Germaine.

Students get charge out of pedal power

November 8, 2007

Writer Ana Castillo focuses on inequality

November 6, 2007

Student inventors invited to apply for $30,000 Lemelson-MIT prize

October 24, 2007

MIT's Deshpande Center announces fall 2007 research grants

Ten research teams receive over $1M to turn new ideas into commercial innovations

October 22, 2007

Awards and Honors

October 17, 2007

Amon, Golub win cancer prize

Paul Marks Prize recognizes significant research contributions

October 3, 2007

Software developed by MIT students generated this map showing energy use intensity across campus. Last spring, MITEI awarded funds for this work and for six other student projects aimed at cutting campus energy use and encouraging adoption of sustainable energy practices. MITEI is now seeking proposals for new student projects relating to campus sustainability. Applications are due Oct. 1.

Students help MITEI 'walk the talk' on energy

September 27, 2007

Sophomore Xavier Gonzalez, right, shows his team's poster to judge Cora Leibig, an MIT alum who works at Dow Chemical. Gonzalez' team, Biogas Nicaragua, finished second in the MADMEC contest, held Sept. 25, 2007. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-1-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Students shape materials for their own devices

September 27, 2007

Tightrope walker Madeleine PrÃ©vost-Lemire.

Main Squeeze

Wendy Jacob's "Between Spaces" exhibit in Wolk Gallery

September 26, 2007

Saul Griffith (S.M. 2001, Ph.D. 2004), 2007 MacArthur fellow.

MIT alums win MacArthur 'genius' awards

September 25, 2007

Four MIT faculty win NIH awards

September 18, 2007

The powered ankle-foot prosthesis developed at the MIT Media Lab by Professor Hugh Herr and researchers in the lab's biomechatronics research group.

Joint effort: Robotic ankle research gets off on the right foot

Army vet demos MIT prosthesis; device is first of its kind

July 23, 2007

Development Initiative wins Lemelson Grant

July 18, 2007

Civil and environmental engineering sophomore Liz Labuz powers the radio to her right by pedaling her team's "The Pedaler Challenge", a pedal machine that powers a radio. As a member of the CEE sophomore design course, she and her fellow classmates were required to design and built an energy-producing machine.

Civil engineers pump energy into machines

June 22, 2007

New book shows ferment brews great architecture