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Dean Adele Santos of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning

Interview with the dean: Adele Santos, School of Architecture and Planning

June 11, 2008

From left, MIT President Susan Hockfield, William Guenther, president of Mass Insight Education & Research Institute, Joel Stembridge, headmaster of the John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science in Roxbury, Mass., and J. Kim Vandiver, MIT professor of mechanical engineering and dean for undergraduate research just prior to their announcement of the launch of the Massachusetts Math & Scie...

Highlights for High School response 'overwhelming'

Tens of thousands flock to MIT site since its launch

June 11, 2008

MIT researchers have created 'striped' nanoparticles capable of entering a cell without rupturing it. In the background of thisÂ cartoon are cells that have taken up nanoparticles carrying fluorescent imaging agents

Stripes key to nanoparticle drug delivery

June 9, 2008

Sheila Kennedy

Getting wrapped up in solar textiles

MIT lecturer focuses on flexible photovoltaic materials

June 9, 2008

$Gratings used to manipulate X-rays for future space telescopes and other applications,Â like tiny miniaturized venetian blinds,Â were created using this interference lithography patterning tool, called the nanoruler, developed at MIT's Space Nanotechnology Laboratory. The colorful, diffracting wafer at center has a diameter of 12 inches.$

MIT team develops better X-ray nanomirrors

Nanotechnology will enhance future telescopes

June 9, 2008

Muhammad Yunus

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

MIT researchers are designing sensors that use carbon nanotubes, shown here in middle and at top, to detect hazardous gases.

Super-sensitive and small: New MIT detector uses nanotubes to sense deadly gases

June 5, 2008

Eradicating TB with ... cell phone minutes?

June 4, 2008

Joshua Angrist

MIT-University of Chicago study says teacher tests deterring talented individuals

June 4, 2008

Tao Laoban works at cleaning one of the concrete solar cookers used in Tibet. A team of students, including some from MIT, has developed a more portable solar cooker.

Harnessing the Tibetan sun

Student project aims to reduce deforestation and lung disease

June 4, 2008

MIT biology research affiliate Joe Davis works in his apartment in Cambridge on the prototype for a Hurricane Katrina memorial--a 109-foot tower that will send laser beams into the sky. He recently won a Rockefeller fellowship for the project.

Research affiliate envisions towering Katrina memorial

June 4, 2008

NASA selects MIT-led team to develop planet-searching satellite

June 3, 2008

The Earth below, the sky above: MIT's trend-setting EAPS turns 25

June 3, 2008

In one of the first significant scientific findings from the effort to detect gravitational waves, the team operating the Laser Interferometer Gravity-wave Observatory (LIGO) has reported that the pulsar at the center of the Crab Nebula must have an extremely smooth surface. Here the Crab Nebula is shown in a composite image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Measuring a pulsar's smoothness

Team finds significant results from major collaboration

June 3, 2008