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A woman in Nepal cleans water for her family using a filter developed by MIT researchers.

Funding helps Nepal water project

March 3, 2004

U.S. electoral system would work well for Iraq, physicist says

February 17, 2004

Choki Lhamo (age 14) from Trongsa with "Bhutan," the world's largest published book.

MIT's Michael Hawley creates world's largest published book

Proceeds from sale of 130 pound tome to benefit educational charities

December 15, 2003

Government proposes $100 fee for first-time student visa applicants

November 5, 2003

MIT's solar car, Tesseract, averaged 91.2 km/hour in the World Solar Challenge race.

MIT Solar team shines in Australia

October 29, 2003

Professor Andrew Kadak builds a "power plant" of Legos to demonstrate the modular approach to constructing a pebble-bed nuclear plant. Each Lego brick represents a module containing specified plant components. The modules can be made in factories with high quality control, transported to a site, and assembled Lego-like into a power plant.

MIT, Tsinghua work on nuclear technology

October 22, 2003

MIT, Tsinghua collaborate on development of pebble-bed nuclear reactor

October 22, 2003

Panelists to debate whether America is an empire

October 8, 2003

Bustani seminars focus on Mideast

September 24, 2003

Professor Pawan Sinha, seated at left, works in a village with a girl who gained sight after being blind until age seven.

Project Prakash sheds light on formerly blind children

August 27, 2003

International students gathered to get to know each other and share how some of their expectations of the United States matched up with the reality they've experienced since arriving. Freshmen were gathered around tables with upperclassmen mentors interspersed, expressing their thoughts while one of the group took notes and got up to share with the entire group. Many laughs ensued, especially when...

Foreign students ponder fast food, flashy dress

August 27, 2003

MIT professor Pawan Sinha, seated at left, works in a village with a little girl who gained sight after being blind for the first seven years of her life.

Sight unseen

Eyesight can be restored, but what about recognition?

August 25, 2003

The "groundbreaking" ceremony for Berikoy was actually a "concrete-shoveling" into the forms that had been laid for the foundations of the first houses.

Dream village rising in wake of quake

July 22, 2003

M.B.A. student Jacqui Tan snoozes during the return-trip boat ride from the Elephant Caves in Mumbai, India.

Students meet India's president

May 21, 2003

Film depicts doomed 'cyclos'