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Hamlin Jennings will lead new Concrete Sustainability Hub at MITProfessor from Northwestern University will join MIT team working to reduce concrete's carbon footprint

Community Spring Break taking place May 10Event held in honor of vice chancellor and dean for graduate education Steven Lerman

New solar research center inauguratedEni-MIT Solar Frontiers Center, funded by Italian oil company, will support research by 21 MIT faculty members

Middle School Outreach Day at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center turns 21Schools return yearly for hands-on opportunities

Said and DoneHumanities, arts, and social sciences digest for May 2010

Winners of the ninth annual MIT IDEAS Competition announcedMore than $25,000 awarded to seven student teams that apply invention to improve lives

Saša Stanišić on "How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone"authors@MIT, presented by The MIT Libraries and the MIT Press Bookstore

Safeguarding data: An MIT responsibilityTo protect the personal data MIT collects and to comply with new Massachusetts regulations, a campus-wide Written Information Security Program (WISP) has been developed.

Ray LaHood seeks ideas to curb distracted drivingIn MIT visit, U.S. transportation secretary asks students to help with effort to stop national 'epidemic'

Delight in greener daylightA class perspective on façade renovation

Video production studio opens in Building 24New facility offers the latest video production technology to the MIT community.

MIT-led clean-energy projects win ARPA-E funding$11 million in grants to Institute research awarded in DoE agency’s second round

Sheila Widnall named to Toyota North American Quality Advisory PanelInstitute Professor will advise Japanese carmaker as it seeks to address quality and safety issues.

Marta Gonzalez on Modeling Human MobilityPresented by Transportation@MIT

Merging arts: ACT program inauguratedDay-long celebrations looks back at CAVS, Visual Arts and toward the future