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Miriam Yoffa Rich, former longtime lab technician, 88

March 5, 2008

MIT was recently named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts and service to disadvantaged youth for the success of its MIT@Lawrence project. This photo, taken in 2004, shows MIT student Claudia Canepa and Lawrence resident Rebecca Camargo as they map properties in the city's North Common neighborhood.

Lawrence project puts MIT on U.S. service honor roll

March 4, 2008

MacVicar Day, Institute Awards deadline approaching

March 4, 2008

This prototype of the PANTHER device is about one cubic foot and weighs 37 pounds.

PANTHER sensor from MIT Lincoln Laboratory quickly detects pathogens

March 3, 2008

Expert says big energy picture must balance security, sustainability, and supply

March 3, 2008

Community mourns death of senior Robert M. Wells, 22

March 3, 2008

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

Wee creatures are key to Earth's environment

March 3, 2008

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New site sheds light on MIT's hidden art treasures

February 29, 2008

Energy-producing partnership

February 29, 2008

Graduate students Dan Casey and Mario Manuel, left, and senior research scientist Richard Petrasso of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center with the detector used to study implosions that recreate the high temperatures and densities found inside stars.

New 'snapshots' aid quest for fusion energy

February 28, 2008

MIT graduate student and synthetic biologist Timothy Lu has won the $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventing processes to combat bacterial infections by enhancing the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance

Timothy Lu awarded $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for inventiveness

February 27, 2008

This frame from a time-lapse movie shows multiple traces (red) of a single rat whisker, captured at 3,200 frames per second, as it moves from left to right across a rough surface and then a smoother one. (For clarity, only every 3rd trace is shown, or about one per millisecond). Clusters and gaps of the traces correspond to this whisker's rapid sticking and slipping movements during ~175 millisec...

MIT researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action

February 27, 2008

Awards and Honors

February 27, 2008

Core curriculum changes discussed at faculty meeting

February 27, 2008

Professional development programs enhance workplace, employee growth

February 27, 2008

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Expert says big energy picture must balance security, sustainability, and supply

Community mourns death of senior Robert M. Wells, 22

Team probes mysteries of oceanic bacteria

New site sheds light on MIT's hidden art treasures

Energy-producing partnership

New 'snapshots' aid quest for fusion energy

Bacteria beware: MIT student invents knock-out punch for antibiotic resistance

MIT researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action

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Professional development programs enhance workplace, employee growth

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