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From left to right: Richard Maulsby (United States Patent and Trademark Office), Timothy Lu (grand winner, MIT), Greg Schroll (undergraduate winner, MIT), Paul Podsiadlo (graduate winner, University of Michigan), Neil Conan (NPR host) and Jeff Pan (Abbott representative who was also a judge).

MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contest

Lu awarded $25,000 grand prize, Schroll takes top undergraduate honors

November 21, 2008

MIT planetary scientist Maria T. Zuber has been named this year by the magazine U.S. News and World Report as one of "America's Best Leaders."

Zuber named to list of 'best leaders'

U.S. News honors luminaries in arts, science and politics

November 21, 2008

Legatum Center announces IAP Seed Grants

November 20, 2008

Vice President for Information Services & Technology Jerry Grochow

Q&A with Information Technology VP Jerry Grochow

November 19, 2008

Awards and Honors: Nov. 19, 2008

November 19, 2008

Former Secretary, United States Department of Labor Alexis M. Herman gave the keynote address at the Diversity Leadership Congress convened by President Susan Hockfield at the Back Bay Events Center on Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008.

Promoting diversity

MIT leaders convene to accelerate efforts

November 19, 2008

Gordon L. Brownell, Professor emeritus, 86

November 18, 2008

David Kirkpatrick (left), Chairman of Plymouth Rock Studios, Cynthia Breazeal, co-director of Media Lab's Center for Future Storytelling, and Frank Moss, director of the MIT Media Lab, with Nexi, a mobile, dexterous social robot developed by Breazeal's Personal Robots research group.

Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

Teams up with Plymouth Rock Studios to reinvent the movies

November 18, 2008

Margaret Zarudny Freeman, touched many over long MIT career

November 18, 2008

Pan-STARRS 1 prototype, part of the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System, Haleakala mountain, Maui.

Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets

Detectors developed at Lincoln Laboratory deployed in powerful telescope

November 18, 2008

MIT's Ashleigh Hildebrand and Howard Herzog are working toward a more eco-friendly option for coal power plants.

A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner

'Partial capture' of emissions could be near-term move

November 17, 2008

Burying the greenhouse gas

New tool could aid safe underground storage of CO2

November 17, 2008

Senior Paul Blascovich watches surgical robot operating from left, while teaching assistant Lael Odhner plays with arm. Junior Tony McDonald watches from back, Junior Ian Rust and instructor Harrison Chin watch from center and right of "patient."

Going under the (robotic) knife

Engineering students design robots to remove tumors

November 17, 2008

Don't miss Global Entrepreneurship Week

November 17, 2008

A new class of catalysts

November 16, 2008

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Awards and Honors: Nov. 19, 2008

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Gordon L. Brownell, Professor emeritus, 86

Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

Margaret Zarudny Freeman, touched many over long MIT career

Early warning of dangerous asteroids and comets

A quicker, easier way to make coal cleaner

Burying the greenhouse gas

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Don't miss Global Entrepreneurship Week

A new class of catalysts

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