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SHASS announces new department heads

September 12, 2006

MIT faculty, alumni cited as top young innovators in Technology Review

September 8, 2006

Freshman Jeff Xing of Maryland chops through weeds growing along the banks of the Charles River as part of the City Days volunteer effort on Sept. 1. Many freshmen, assisted by some upperclassmen, did a variety of projects including carpentry jobs, landscaping, pruning, gardening and putting together welcome baskets for newborns.

Class of 2010 builds community at annual CityDays festival

September 6, 2006

Research led by MIT professor Elfatih Eltahir indicates that trees in a desert forest in Oman survive by extracting moisture from low-lying clouds.

MIT team describes unique desert cloud forest

September 6, 2006

MIT's Real Time Rome project, which will have its worldwide debut at the 2006 Venice Biennale, uses cellphone and wireless data to map people in Rome. Here it shows cellular phone users in northeastern Rome at different hours of a day.

MIT Real Time Rome project to debut at Venice Biennale

September 5, 2006

MIT energy experts explore life "beyond carbon"

September 5, 2006

Epilepsy breakthrough on horizon

MIT developing device to detect oncoming seizures

August 31, 2006

Among three designs for floating giant wind turbines in the deep ocean, MIT research is focusing on the tension leg platform (center), a system that oil companies use for deep-water rigs.

Deep-sea oil rigs inspire MIT designs for giant wind turbines

August 29, 2006

MIT researchers employed time-lapse vertical seismic profiling (VSP) to help identify natural gas pockets. The left panel shows seismic maps of underground faults and wells that may contain hard-to-get-at reservoirs of oil and gas. The middle and right panels show more detailed data gathered through VSP.

Acoustic data may reveal hidden gas, oil supplies

August 28, 2006

Design Lab's urban vision includes a snake-like bus.

Duty now for the future: MIT Design Lab invents new urban systems

August 28, 2006

MIT researchers have shown that certain key connections among neurons get stronger when we learn. From left are Mark F. Bear, Picower Professor of Neuroscience; postdoctorate associate Jonathan R. Whitlock; research scientist Arnold J. Heynen and research affiliate Marshall G. Shuler.

MIT provides first evidence for learning mechanism

August 24, 2006

In a photo from 2002, Professor Vernon Ingram holds up cell cultures that he and senior technical associate Barbara Blanchard worked with during their research on the beta-amyloid plaques that attack the brains of Alzheimer's patients.

'Father of molecular medicine,' Vernon Ingram dies at 82

August 22, 2006

MIT ranks 1st in engineering, 4th overall among nation's top universities

August 18, 2006

Bill Dickson '56, retired senior vice president, dies

August 17, 2006

MIT alumnus Eric Guyer, CEO of Climate Energy, describes his company's micro-combined heat and power unit at an MIT Energy Club event.

Innovative generator could spark energy savings

August 11, 2006

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