MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joint MIT/Harvard MBA student Leland Cheung made history on Nov. 3 by becoming the first university student and the first Asian American to be elected to the Cambridge City Council. He will join his new colleagues in January as the youngest member of the nine-member body.

By gillooly@mit.edu (Anne Trafton, MIT News Office) A new paper from scientists at MIT, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, University of Massachusetts Medical School and Harvard University, reveals the three-dimensional structure of the human genome and answers the thorny question of how each of our cells stows some three billion...

By Ellen Duranceau In addition to MIT, the other initial signatories are Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley.   Other universities are encouraged to join at the compact web site. PLoS article by Compact author and Harvard professor Stuart Shieber

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.

 TX Both Perez and Valdez are heading to Cambridge, Massachusetts in August to attend Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), respectively. Seeing her siblings go on to college, Perez, 18, believed she too could pave a road ...

 India Stanford, Duke, MIT, Harvard and Georgetown are all privately operated not-for-profit academic institutions and are among the best in the world. It is the competition between private and public universities for students and faculty that has made the ...

 MA The natural science index result is also interesting (natural science includes math, engineering, computer science as well as physics, chemistry, biology, etc.). Caltech's score is 3.36, followed by Stanford 1.21, MIT 1.16, Harvard .93, Berkeley .92, ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY and Christine H. Chung, MD, described their current cancer research projects funded by the Foundation: Dr. Rinn, previously an aspiring professional snowboarder and now an Assistant Professor at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University, ...

But when a joint team from Boston University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology uses biochemical trickery to give cells computer-like timers, they raise this rejiggering to a higher level. As Timothy Liu at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health ...

 DC A panel of experts from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology convened this week at MIT to discuss long-term solutions for US nuclear waste storage. The experts, hosted by US Sen. Thomas Carper, D-Del., said current ...

 MA She has done research on syntactical awareness/sentence comprehension as part of academic work at Harvard University and Boston University in conjunction with Ted Gibson from the Brain and Cognitive Development department at MIT. ...

The Kendall Square property has been marketed to Harvard and MIT faculty as a convenient home for professors who want to stay close to university life, according to a press release from the plaintiff's lawyers. The building achieved substantial ...

By Ellen Duranceau Precedent-Setting Vote On March 18, 2009, MIT Faculty voted unanimously to make their scholarly articles openly available, the first university-wide faculty vote of its kind anywhere. A similar policy was put into place in 2008 by the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences and then two...

By Ellen Duranceau This move is the first by a School of Education, and follows similar policies, aslo adopted by unanimous votes, by the Harvard Faculty of Arts & Sciences (February) and the Harvard Law School (April). The policy will give Stanford University a license to post the Education School fac...

By tbaker The consortium's members include more than 60 universities, scholarly societies, and professional organizations such as Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the Association of American Geographers. ...

Six UA Graduates to be Awarded Medals of Honor University of Arizona News (press release), AZ - Hsieh will attend Harvard Medical School’s Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology MD program this fall. She also plans to pursue a master’s in public ...

By Ellen Duranceau In an effort to share faculty research and scholarship more broadly, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted unanimously on February 12 to give the University a license to make each faculty member’s scholarly articles openly available. According to Peter Suber, chronicler of tre...

By Ryan Gray Need data to answer a research question? Interested in analyzing raw datasets with micro-level records about individual respondents? This hands-on workshop will familiarize you with the resources of the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and t...

By Ellen Duranceau Stuart Shieber, Harvard professor of computer science, introduced a motion to the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October 16 that would have the faculty uniformly grant a non-exclusive, limited license to Harvard to post their scholarly and research articles openly on the web....

A joint Harvard, MIT genomics research venture get a huge grant from a Maryland-based philanthropy. The private 100 (m) million dollar grant will be used to ... Broad receives $100M gift to launch research center Harvard University Gazette

By Michael The work, a collaboration among researchers at Harvard University, Seoul National University and MIT, was published in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The researchers have also filed for a U.S. patent covering the discovery.

 South Korea - The US¡¯ Harvard University remained at the top, followed by Cambridge and Oxford in the UK The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) fell from second ...

The Broad Institute, a collaboration between MIT and Harvard University, reports it will join forces with a quartet of research centers in New York to form the five-year Starr Cancer Consortium, funded by a $100 million award from the Starr Foundation.

Harvard University GazetteFounders Donate $100M to Harvard for Broad Institute  MA - Broad Institute receives additional $100M Boston Mass High Tech Donors double $100 million gift for genome center at Harvard, MIT Boston Globe