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Inside the Institute-wide Planning Task Force

Members of education working group reflect on their experiences

July 21, 2009

Recalling the 'Giant Leap'

July 17, 2009

MIT alumnus Buzz Aldrin PhD '63 descends NASA's Lunar Module on July 20, 1969, just prior to becoming the second human to walk on the moon.

Landing Apollo via Cambridge

Former MIT Instrumentation Lab member recalls his contribution to the safe landing of Apollo 11 on the lunar surface.

July 17, 2009

Ela Ben-Ur '97, SM '99, one of the International Development Design Summit organizers, pounds a mixture of plants to make a porridge called fufu, a local staple food, at a small farm in Ghana.

'Crazy minds, able hands'

MIT's problem-solving design summit moves to developing world

July 10, 2009

Professor Elazer Edelman, Natalie Artzi, Aaron Baker and Adriana Bon in the lab with a surgical adhesive they have developed.

MIT team aims to tailor surgical glues for specific applications

Researchers look to match material to tissue properties

July 9, 2009

A Micrograph showing the cross-section of a new optoelectronic fiber.

A fabric with vision

Researchers create flexible lensless camera from web of light-detecting fibers

July 8, 2009

Harvard graduate students Ankush Sharma, right, and Alexis Geancotes, left, (who also study at MIT) represent the MoCa team, which developed mobile diagnostics to improve health care in the developing world.

A phone is not just a phone

Student projects explore innovative cellphone uses in developing world

July 2, 2009

An image of the H1N1 influenza virus taken in the CDC Influenza Laboratory.

MIT, CDC find H1N1 flu virus ill-suited for rapid transmission

But researchers say new strain bears watching, could mutate

July 2, 2009

Extending the shelf life of antibody drugs

New model allows researchers to design more stable drugs

June 29, 2009

Thinking of you

Studies of blind reveal how we think about other people

June 26, 2009

MIT-Portugal at the halfway point

June 25, 2009

MIT student Tina Srivastava unfolds a solar panel during the micro-gravity flights, while senior Jillian James floats above.

Students float their ideas

Experiments take off on weightless flight

June 25, 2009

A new approach to engineering for extreme environments

Scientist creates model to design radiation-resistant materials

June 24, 2009

Exploring journalism's future

Civic media conference helps hatch new ideas

June 23, 2009

3 Questions: Evan Ziporyn on his new opera

June 22, 2009

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