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Design Squad takes systems-based approach to attracting future engineers

May 7, 2008

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Engineering an award-winning TV program

MIT faculty, students' perspective employed in PBS's 'Design Squad'

May 7, 2008

Seven from MIT elected to National Academy of Sciences

April 29, 2008

Keith Jochim as Richard Feynman in 'QED.'

Feynman play 'QED' to be performed starting April 30

April 25, 2008

Emanuel E. Landsman '58, SM '59, ScD '66 and his wife, Sheila E. Landsman, have given $4 million to the MIT Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Landsman is shown here with Associate Professor David Perreault, left, the inaugural holder of the Landsman Career Development Professorship.

Landsman gift aids electric energy-related engineering at MIT

April 25, 2008

Tomorrow's soldier: powered, spring-loaded and located

Annual competition showcases innovative ideas

April 18, 2008

A representation of different estimated annual carbon footprints. Government services were a major reason for the relatively large U.S. average, according to an MIT class led by Professor Timothy Gutowski of mechanical engineering.

Leaving our mark

MIT class tracks carbon footprint of different lifestyles; finds even the smallest U.S. footprints are relatively large

April 16, 2008

Interview with the dean: Deborah Fitzgerald, SHASS

April 15, 2008

Figure illustrates "lab on a chip" technique developed by MIT researchers to allow immobilization and imaging of a live C. elegans worm: (a-i) worm moves freely in chip's microfluidic channel; (a-ii) partial immobilization of worm; (a-iii) full immobilization; (b) low magnification image of worm immobilized in the device; (c) close-up of immobilized worm showing animal's neurons (fluorescent).

Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost

MIT team refines optical 'lab on a chip'

April 10, 2008

MIT economist Amy Finkelstein has found that when toll authorities implement electronic toll collection systems like E-ZPass, toll rates begin to creep up more than they would have under the old manual toll system.

Life in the FastLane

MIT economist finds E-ZPass program hides tax hikes

April 9, 2008

MIT senior Tish Scolnik, left, was recently named one of the Top 10 College Women by Glamour Magazine.

Summer spending binge?

MIT experts sound off on Uncle Sam's estimated $150 billion giveaway

April 9, 2008

Awards and Honors

April 9, 2008

The creators of the MIT six-rotor vehicle, above, developed in collaboration with Ascending Technologies GmbH in Germany, won a tie for first place in a competition to develop a micro air vehicle to aid in a hypothetical hostage situation.

Awards & Honors

April 2, 2008

William L. Kraushaar, high-energy astronomy pioneer, 87

March 31, 2008

Pedro Reis, an instructor in applied mathematics at MIT, and colleagues have reported the formulation and physics behind the pattern created by adhesive tearing. In this image, Reis demonstrates the way that adhesive tape tears in a triangular shape coming a point.

Researchers make a point of explaining 'the wallpaper problem'

March 30, 2008

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Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost

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