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MIT professor Penny Chisholm, left, and principal research scientists Mick Follows and Stephanie Dutkiewicz have created an ocean model in which the populations of "sown" microbes precisely mimic real-world patterns of the same organisms.

Ocean model captures diversity of underwater forests

Simulation condenses 10 years' evolution into five days of computing

March 29, 2007

Image above shows the emergent ocean ecosystem community structure. The phytoplankton community is organized according to relative fitness in the physical, chemical, and predatory environment.

MIT Darwin Project will model ocean microbes

March 29, 2007

MIT graduate student Timothy J. Buschman, left, and Professor Earl Miller of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have found concrete evidence that two radically different brain regions play different roles in the different modes of attention.

Neuroscientists find different brain regions fuel attention

Work could be significant in treatment of ADD

March 29, 2007

MIT visualization of the chaotic tangle underlying turbulence. Area in black box represents a blown-up portion of the fluid showing the self-similarity of the tangle.

MIT reveals the tangle under turbulence

March 28, 2007

This graphic shows one visualization of the E8 group recently mapped by mathematicians. The graphic was computer-generated by John Sembridge, based on a drawing by Peter McMullen.

Congress commends E8 math team

March 28, 2007

Child's play is serious study of cause and effect

March 28, 2007

Edward Boyden, assistant professor in the MIT Media Lab, uses light to silence brain cells, which could block abnormal neuron activity associated with diseases like epilepsy and Parkinson's.

MIT neuroengineers' pulsing light silences overactive neurons

Work could lead to new treatments for epilepsy, Parkinson's

March 27, 2007

Glenn Ellison, left, President Susan Hockfield, Gregory K. Palm, and Provost Rafael Reif celebrate Ellison's appointment.

Ellison is named inaugural Palm Professor of Economics

March 26, 2007

Douglas receives Black History Maker award

March 26, 2007

Faculty discuss improving teaching, undergraduate experience

March 23, 2007

Meg Jacobs of the MIT History section makes a point during a recent colloquium about the 1970s oil crisis.

Seventies oil crisis was a 'perfect storm' for U.S.

March 23, 2007

A Cambridge biotechnology company plans to market absorbable, super strong sutures produced using a recombinant DNA technique developed at MIT.

Natural polyester makes new sutures stronger, safer

March 22, 2007

Architecture and planning dean Adele Santos, left: Ted Landsmark, director of Boston Architectural College, center, and Ho Yung Chang, architecture department head, welcomed participants to 'Architecture Race Academe: The Black Architect's Journey.'

MIT conference portrays black architects' journey

March 21, 2007

Review group addresses medical recommendations

March 21, 2007

Survey gives MIT a chance to talk back

March 21, 2007

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