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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

In one image from the new DUSP exhibit, 'Urban Design and Civil Protest,' a crowd has appropriated a prestigious public space in London as part of a 2007 peace protest. Exhibit creator Tali Hatuka uses visual and other media to explore how urban space is used as an instrument for civil protests. The exhibit opens Feb. 28 in the Compton Gallery.

DUSP show eyes urban design, civil protest

February 27, 2008

J. Mark Schuster, urban studies and planning professor, 57

February 27, 2008

Villagers in Ha Teboho, in the southern African nation of Lesotho, gather to learn about a new concentrating solar generator and hot water system installed by MIT students.

Shedding a bright light on village needs

February 27, 2008

MIT celebrates legacy of Martin Luther King

Much has been done, much work remains

February 26, 2008

Philip Lessard, Kazuhiko Kurosawa and Anthony Sinskey display a new type of antibiotic they produced by pitting two strains of bacteria against one another. Lessard, a research scientist, and postdoc Kurosawa work in the MIT lab of Sinskey, a professor of microbiology and health sciences and technology.

Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

Holds promise for treating stomach ulcers

February 26, 2008

Last chance for faculty to respond to quality of life survey

February 26, 2008

Seven junior faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

February 25, 2008

Crewmembers of an earlier mission at the Mars Society Desert Research Station in Utah set out for an exploratory trip on their all-terrain vehicles, wearing simulated space suits.

The next-best thing to being on Mars

February 25, 2008

Guests speak with passion on MLK's legacy

February 22, 2008

Five win MLK Leadership Awards

February 22, 2008

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

MIT researchers catch rats' twitchy whiskers in action

Awards and Honors

Core curriculum changes discussed at faculty meeting

Professional development programs enhance workplace, employee growth

DUSP show eyes urban design, civil protest

J. Mark Schuster, urban studies and planning professor, 57

Shedding a bright light on village needs

MIT celebrates legacy of Martin Luther King

Bacterial 'battle for survival' leads to new antibiotic

Last chance for faculty to respond to quality of life survey

Seven junior faculty named Sloan Research Fellows

The next-best thing to being on Mars

Guests speak with passion on MLK's legacy

Five win MLK Leadership Awards

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