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A team of eight MIT students and their advisor, Susan Murcott, brought their ingenuity and technical skills to villages in Nepal in 2002 to try to solve a very basic practical problem--the need for clean drinking water at very low cost. Here, a young girl pumps water from a well outside Lumbini, Nepal.
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Co-engineers share designs on clean water

March 5, 2007

Joseph F. Coughlin, founder and director of the MIT AgeLab, explains how older adults are the leading adopters of new technology during a lecture on Feb. 26.

AgeLab founder outlines new lives for elders

Boomers' whining already brings huge changes

March 1, 2007

Alison Alden is named vice president for human resources

December 19, 2006

Theresa Stone is appointed executive VP, treasurer

November 8, 2006

Scientific American names Angela Belcher Researcher of the Year

3 others from MIT rank in magazine's top 50

November 6, 2006

Housing panelists explore unit supply, quality and cost

November 1, 2006

Housing expert discusses work in bayou

Reinhard Goethert helping rebuild stricken Louisiana

September 5, 2006

Scientists call for government action to avert disaster

July 25, 2006

University residential community group to present plans

May 19, 2006

NPR 'Science Friday' host Ira Flatow, right, moderates a Picower Institute conference on addiction while Dr. Robert C. Malenka of Stanford University School of Medicine fields questions from the audience.

Picower conference tackles addiction

May 12, 2006

Donna Brazile embraces MIT President Susan Hockfield at the Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast.

MLK breakfast remarks by Donna Brazile

February 14, 2006

Faculty examine academic core, health services

November 23, 2005

Benefits enrollment fairs scheduled

November 9, 2005

Hurricane horror mostly bad luck -- for now