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MIT brimming over with energy

Conference showcases a sustainable future

April 14, 2008

Jacks named president-elect of AACR

April 14, 2008

From left, Ian Bowles, Massachusetts Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs; Ernest Moniz, director of the MIT Energy Initiative and Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics & Engineering Systems; William Hartman, vice president of Fraunhofer USA; and Eicke Weber, director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems, sign an agreement to create the MIT-Fraunhofer Center for Sus...

MIT and Fraunhofer announce center for sustainable energy systems

Center aims to significantly reduce cost of solar energy over next five years

April 14, 2008

Keeril Makan, assistant professor of music, has won the Rome Prize for 2008-2009.

MIT's Makan wins Rome Prize

April 11, 2008

A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

CDC-labeled pandemics no deadlier than seasonal influenza

April 11, 2008

MIT's team competes at the International Collegiate Programming Contest.

MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

April 11, 2008

Three MIT faculty named Guggenheim fellows

April 11, 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

Would you steal a buck? How about a can of soda?

Dan Ariely probes how people make decisions in his new book, 'Predictably Irrational'

April 9, 2008

Obituaries

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

Charting energy's future

MIT energy conference bringing minds together to combat global problem

April 9, 2008

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How strong is a hurricane? Just listen

April 9, 2008

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MIT crowned regional champs in battle of brains

Three MIT faculty named Guggenheim fellows

Live-animal nerve regeneration study gets a boost

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