MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

By Matt McGann '00 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — MIT is a school defined by numbers. Everything, from the buildings to the names of courses, is numbered. So perhaps it's fitting that MIT is home to the leading rusher in Division III: senior running back DeRon Brown, who is putting up big numbers again.

Donal Fox occupies a unique position in contemporary music, not so much because he straddles the line between jazz and concert music, but because he includes improvisation in both genres with equal enthusiasm and expertise," said Peter Child, professor of music in the School of Humani...

By gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office) About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT’s Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion of genes into living cells for the treatment of disease. Sawicki was working on treating ovaria...

By gillooly@mit.edu (David L. Chandler, MIT News Office) The planned turbine, a Skystream 3.7 with a rated output of 2.4 kilowatts, about enough to power an average home, is a gift from Philip Deutch as a tribute to his father, Institute Professor John Deutch. In addition to providing some power for lighting on the Briggs Field, the turbine would pr...

By Chris S. '11 The sun is rising outside, peeking over the Charles. But that's okay. It's just another day in Cambridge, Massachusetts. And I'm taking 4 classes at MIT - two history, two science. After dropping 7.06 (Cell Biology), I'm currently taking 9.01 (Neuroscience), 7.30 (Ecology I), 21H.466 (Imperia...

By gillooly@mit.edu (Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office) Sipser also says that “the P-versus-NP problem has become broadly recognized in the mathematical community as a mathematical question that is fundamental and important and beautiful. I think it has helped bridge the mathematics and computer science communities.”

By gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office) Dawson and his colleagues describe the latest generation of the EIM probe in a paper they have submitted to the Annals of Biomedical Engineering. They presented the first generation probe at the IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference last year.

Launched through a $20 million gift by The Bernard M. Gordon Foundation, the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is a new educational initiative at MIT whose goal is to help MIT's undergraduate engineering students develop the skills, tools, and character they will ne...

By Matt McGann '00 Susan Hockfield has served as the 16th President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) since December 2004. A noted neuroscientist focused on the development of the brain, Dr. Hockfield is the first life scientist to lead MIT and holds a faculty appointment as Professor of N...

At last Friday's Energy Night at the MIT Museum, Dr. Keith Collins described his approach to fighting global warming with all the gusto of a really good insurance salesman. But Collins, who graduated from MIT in 1970 with a degree in political science, wasn't actually selling anything. He w...

The MIT Community Development and Substance Abuse Center (CDSA) is one of three college programs to receive the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 2009 Science and Service Award for exemplary implementation of evidence-based services

By Snively '11 2:33 -- Internships are also very popular. MIT has connections with places around Cambridge, Boston, and the world. MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiative) helps send students to other countries to do research with partnering businesses.

By Yan Z. '12 Gender imbalance has never influenced my experience at MIT. I'm a bit startled by your (Lulu's?) numbers, since at least half of the Physics majors I've met are women. Granted, I spend a lot of time around Undergraduate Women in Physics, which is perhaps not a representative sample of the ge...

By Laura N. '09 The class is called The Product Development Process (or something like that, but who really cares? just call it 2.009 like a normal person) and all of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which are identified by color. (So there's Blue, Orange, Silver, Red, and of co...

By Cristen C. '10 I don't like robots. Well, most of them are okay. The ones which for some reason look like people (vain creators perhaps?) creep me the heck out! But I'm sure if anyone is learning a lot from robots, it's my (perhaps 'geekier') peers at MIT....

By Matt McGann '00 Still, Trevor Zinser says he was unsure he could get into MIT, and was floored when the university flew him to Boston to sway him to choose MIT over Harvard or Stanford. He says exceptional teachers, particularly science teacher Dave Sherden, worked hard to make classes deep and engaging.

For commercial transport, a company called Hammock aims to provide a way for shippers to connect with truckers, allowing for a better coordination of resources so that trucks are less likely to travel half-full, and farmers, for example, can get their goods to market without fear of spo...

 MA MIT chemical-engineering professor Karen Gleason and MIT postdoc Sreeram Vaddiraju have developed a process that aims to solve the problems of high fabrication costs and instability for oleds while still maintaining their flexibility. ...

LX: This coming fall I will attend MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in Cambridge, Mass. I plan to major in chemical engineering and hope to minor ... and more »

 MN As the MIT Technology Review reports, the bill is 946 pages long and peppered with loopholes . Most notably, certain industries will be awarded allocations for greenhouse gas emissions based on how much they produce in the first place. ...

Help Net Security  UK The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has released version 1.7 of its Kerberos network suite. The previous release, version 1.6.3, contained several known security vulnerabilities (CVE-2009-0844, CVE-2009-0845, CVE-2009-0846 and ...

By Snively '11 Roses are Red Violets are Blue If I went to Harvard, I'd hate myself too I've got wonderful stories about Harvard that I'll be more than happy to tell you if you come to CPW, but our first story about Harvard is brought to you by, well, Harvard. Dear Zug, Yours Truly, MIT

By Snively '11 Here's how it started, with an e-mail to me and Elizabeth (one of my teammates for toy design last year) about presenting ElectroPlushies at an upcoming MIT Science and Engineering Business Club event. Our toy design professor, Barry, sent us this: thanks! barry

By Yan Z. '12 The truth is that MIT isn't right for everyone. Some people wish they had picked the state school that offered them a full ride, a free car, and the right to name a state park after themselves. Some people wish they had picked Harvard. The latter usually soon regain their ability to make reasona...

By Ellen Duranceau Tags:Current Mortgage Rates The latest in the series of podcasts on scholarly publication and copyright is an interview with Professor JoAnne Yates, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management and Deputy Dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management. She speaks about the new MIT Sloan we...

By Matt McGann '00 A 6-foot-4 guard, Bartolotta is averaging 27.8 points a game, best in the New England Men’s and Women’s Athletics Conference and third best in Division III. He has led the Engineers to a 16-5 record and their best conference start at 7-1.

By Matt Feltz Over the weekend, one of the most prestigious student research contests took place in the labyrinthine halls of MIT’s Stata Center. 2008 marked the fifth year of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, in which 84 teams created anything they could think o...

By Michael The goal is to perturb the cell as little as possible," said Robert Cohen, the St. Laurent Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT and an author of the paper. Here's a video from MIT of B cells with attached polymer "backpacks": More from MIT News...

This means making international studies a core part of the MIT experience, and establishing MIT in an international context. At a time when MIT faces increased global competition, Subra Suresh worries that flat and reduced federal research funding will cut into MIT’s research preemin...

By Michael In a third advantage, "the scaffold itself has an intrinsic ability to guide the orientation of cultured heart cells," Freed said (in 2004, Freed was part of another MIT team that showed that heart cells cultured on a traditional scaffold could also be coaxed into alignment, but only wit...

By Snively '11 A huge perk to living at MIT is living right across the river from Boston. A group called the "Banditos Misteriosos" runs flash mobs in Boston. I got an e-mail informing me that there was to be another flash mob, this time Halloween themed! Here's the gist of it:

By Kerry Skemp Most people [at MIT] are so happy in their free, oversized math and science T-shirts," MIT political science major Christine Yu (who writes the Tech's "Talk Nerdy to Me" sex column) told the Globe. "They like wearing the periodic table to class." That's totally reasonable--so why make the...

By Paul B. '11 When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing to leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of science and engineering. As important as it is, international development isn't exactly something MIT is world-renowned for. Yet.

MIT Technology Review is reporting on new metal and polymer microgrippers that can be chemically activated to grab or cut tissue deep within the body without requiring any incisions. The scientists that developed the device envision swallowing a bunch of these and then guiding the part...

By Paul B. '11 MIT Medlinks MIT Emergency Medical Services (EMTs) MIT Police Homepage MIT Nightline: 617-253-8800 (anonymous peer-listening service run by student volunteers) Boston Area Rape Crisis Center: 1-800-841-8371 MIT Emergency Phone Numbers

The temporary restraining order, issued by a US district judge in Massachusetts, prevented the Massachusetts Institute of Technology students from demonstrating at the Defcon conference in Las Vegas how to use the vulnerabilities to get ...

By Cambridge Program The Cambridge-MIT Institute was founded to make two of the world's best universities better. In 1970, Dean of Institute Relations at MIT, Benson R. Snyder, published a book entitled "The Hidden Curriculum." In this book, Snyder provides a sweeping critique of MIT and a culture of bible-co...

By Paul B. '11 Out of everything I have experienced at MIT - my first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of, fraternity rush, several awesome hacks, finding a UROP, more classes, more p-sets, more studying, more researching, more everything - the aspect of MIT that I enjoy th...

By Paul B. '11 Finally, we come to the humanities section of my life. Because MIT requires all students to take 8 classes in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, most students fulfill that requirement by taking one "HASS" class each semester they're here. Last semester, though, I took four scienc...

By Sam M. '07 Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT professors. During the first week of my product design and development class last semester, we were assigned a reading abou...

By Matt McGann '00 One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description, you s...

By Jess K. '10 MIT-EMS (Emergency Medical Service) is a student-run volunteer ambulance service that provides basic life support to the MIT campus in Cambridge, as well as part of Boston, and runs 24/7 - which means a large number of greatly desired overnight shifts, many of which I have been taking la...

By Karen F. '11 Luckily, it's not in Chicago. It's in Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even though we're actually in Cambridge) at least once. This is because Boston is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and diversity and proximity of othe...

James L. Sherley, a stem-cell biologist who went on a 12-day hunger strike in February to protest his tenure denial at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reached the end of his term of employment at the institute on Friday — and met the scheduled event with more protest.

By christopherious MIT researchers can reverse some symptoms of autism and mental retardation in mice by suppressing a specific enzyme. The research, conducted at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, is due to be posted on PNAS Online some time this week. Here is the MIT article. The specific sympto...

Cancers have very similar x-ray absorption to normal tissue," says Daniel Kopans, director of breast imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston. But cancers may have different refractive properties. Kopans says that preliminary studies using a synchrotron accelerator ha...

By Nicholas(nick@blogborygmi.com) The MIT Technology Review is reporting on a group of Scottish researchers who've designed a form of E. coli to detect arsenic in drinking water: The Edinburgh group found that the bacterium E. coli possesses two seemingly unrelated genetic sequences that, in combination, form an effecti...

By Nicole Hennig The Educause web site has made available an audio file (MP3) of an interview with MacKenzie Smith (Associate Director for Technology) about topics such as the Science Commons, governance of DSpace, the MIT Libraries’ investigation of Semantic Web technology via the SIMILE project, g...

In 2000, IDG co-founder Patrick McGovern and his wife, Lore Harp McGovern, announced a $350-million pledge to build a brain research center at MIT. The center opened in November, and the McGoverns have taken a hands-on approach, attending conferences, consulting with MIT staff, and he...

Woodie Flowers believes MIT must be in the business of producing students with far-reaching goals and the skills to attain them: The 21st century demands the “technologically literate and philosophically grounded,” he says. Engineering students who typically ask, “Why don’t yo...