Faculty

New MIT committee will study effects of race on minority faculty careers

January 29, 2007

Physicist recommends US develop 'portfolio of fuels, electricity and efficiency'

Expert likens scalability of current alternative energy technologies to wild animals: fuzzy and cute when they're small, impractical at a large scale

January 29, 2007

Three Mile Island--failure of science or spin?

An IAP session reviews the 1979 crisis

January 26, 2007

Lauffenburger wins 2007 Galletti award

January 26, 2007

Deborah Fitzgerald is named Kenan Sahin Dean of SHASS

January 24, 2007

MIT Professor Jeffrey Hoffman tests a spacesuit on Mars-like terrain in the Arctic in 2005.

High-flying fame for Hoffman

January 23, 2007

LeaderShape calls students to action

January 22, 2007

Science writer awarded physics prize

January 16, 2007

Hynes named scientific governor of U.K. charity

January 12, 2007

Suburbia gets neo-New Deal

January 10, 2007

IAP rekindles 'Pleasures of Poetry'

January 10, 2007

Micro-RNA research proves Rich's 1961 'suggestion'

January 9, 2007

Biophysicist Alexander Rich first mixed two differing strands of RNA in 1956 to discover the RNA double helix. He holds a model of tRNA (transfer ribonucleic acid).

Scientists celebrate 50 years since key RNA discovery

MIT biophysicist recalls biotech's founding technology

January 9, 2007

William Orme-Johnson, inorganic biochemistry expert, dies at 68

January 5, 2007

Tim Berners-Lee receives Draper Prize