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Nicole Stark named Black Achiever

February 28, 2006

Patrick Antaki '84 represented his birth country of Lebanon in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

Brains, not brawn, takes alumnus to Olympics

February 27, 2006

MIT researchers have found that synchronized neurons speed up attention. The color scale in these graphs indicates the degree of synchronized activity of neurons in the monkey's V4 area of the visual cortex. The more the neurons fire in synchrony (red), the faster the monkey notices a small color change in an attended picture (348 instead of 498 milliseconds).

Neurons in sync focus attention, researchers find

February 24, 2006

Young inventors to gather at MIT on March 4

February 24, 2006

Students participating in the MIT Hosts to International Students program identify their home countries on a globe as MIT staff member Janet Fischer, right, looks on. Since 2002, Fischer has been a host to, from left, Zawadi Lemayian, a freshman from Kenya; Irene Berita Murimi, a junior from Kenya; Smeet Deshmukh, a graduate student from India; and Tendai Chizana, a senior from Zimbabwe.

Host program offers international students home away from home

February 24, 2006

MIT Assistant Professor John Ochsendorf of architecture gave a talk to the American Association for the Advancement of Science in February in which he described a new software tool designed to find a structure's most efficient form.

New tool may reveal architectural past

February 23, 2006

New MIT index measures huge returns in commercial real estate

February 22, 2006

Thousands of different types of microbes inhabit every cubic centimeter of seawater. Most of the organisms in this picture are about 1/2 of a micrometer, or thousandth of a meter, wide.

Microbe DNA helps scientists understand ocean

February 22, 2006

Magnanti calls for wider adoption of OpenCourseWare

Testifies before commission on higher ed

February 22, 2006

Vice President Avakian to retire

February 21, 2006

Minority recruiting efforts outlined at faculty meeting

Biological engineering approved as new course

February 21, 2006

Sheri Simmons uses a pipette to place water samples onto a microscope slide to look at the swimming behavior of magnetotactic bacteria. Her advisor and co-author, Katrina Edwards, is at left.

Bacterium found to have strange magnetic personality

February 17, 2006

MIT scientist shares AAAS honor for cooperation

February 17, 2006

The structure of lithium nickel manganese oxide consists of layers of transition metal (nickel and manganese, blue layer) separated from lithium layers (green) by oxygen (red).

MIT powers up new battery for hybrid cars

February 16, 2006

'Mad cow protein' found to aid creation of brain cells

February 16, 2006

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