campus newsMIT cyclists win Division II national championshipThe MIT Cycling Team won the 2008 Division II national road racing championships after a weekend of exceptional performances by its men's and women's teams. May 12 Four students win $25,000 prize in Google competitionFour MIT undergraduates shared a $25,000 prize as round one winners in Google's Android Developer Challenge, a worldwide open competition for software developers based off Google's Android software stack for mobile applications. May 12 Ghoniem to receive $10M KAUST awardAhmed F. Ghoniem, the Ronald C. Crane (1972) Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive a $10 million, five-year award from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). May 12 Beaver-like robots face off in annual MIT contestRobots designed to toss pool-noodle trees into a river of ping-pong balls ruled over competitors focused on rescuing fuzzy toy beavers in this year's 2.007 contest, "Da (yes) MIT, or Save the Baby Beavers," held on Thursday, May 8, at MIT. May 9 MIT Sloan Board Fellows honoredFive MIT Sloan School of Management MBAs were honored during an inaugural-year celebration of the school's new MIT Sloan Board Fellows program on Tuesday, May 6. May 9 Alexander Rich receives prestigious Welch AwardFor his pioneering work that has helped scientists unlock the mysteries of RNA and DNA, as well as important scientific discoveries that have opened up new fields of science, Alexander Rich had been named the 38th recipient of the Welch Award in Chemistry. May 9 Turn trash into treasure at May 9 FreeMeetLooking for a way to get rid of some outgrown clothes or unneeded kitchen appliances? MIT Students for Global Sustainability have the answer. On May 9, they will host "FreeMeet," an event where one person's trash becomes another person's treasure. May 8 Engineering an award-winning TV programFrom hosting the show to advising behind the scenes, members of the MIT community have played an important role in developing and implementing the popular PBS series Design Squad, which recently won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. May 7 In Sigma Xi lecture, Barsoum to focus on pyramidsMichel Barsoum PhD '85, distinguished professor at Drexel University, will deliver the 2008 Sigma Xi Lecture, entitled "The Mystery of the Great Egyptian Pyramids: The role of materials research in suggesting a partial solution," on May 7. May 7 China Forum lecture series begins May 14MIT will kick off a new monthly lecture series on China with a May 14 talk by Yingyi Qian, dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Qian will speak about China's economic transformation. May 7 Good luck, Dean BenedictThe Chinese Dragon (freshmen Cathy Wu and Alice Li in disguise) made a surprise appearance on Killian Court for the Spring Picnic to celebrate Dean for Student Life Larry Benedict's upcoming retirement. Benedict got a personal 'thank you' from the dragon. May 7 Study debunks myth of job testing as race barrierDo standardized tests that some employers require of job applicants serve as a barrier to equal employment? A pioneering study co-authored by an MIT economist shows that screening helps productivity without hindering minority hiring. May 7 Get your MIT news when you want it, how you want itReaders of Tech Talk can now get an electronic version of MIT's official newspaper delivered each week through a new RSS feed set up by the MIT News Office. The new feed is among a number of MIT news delivery methods. May 7 Mathematics hosting conference May 12-13MIT professor Thomas Mrowka and seven other speakers will present topics ranging from quantum gravity and its connection with probability theory to the solution of two recent conjectures, the Kodaira conjecture and the Weinstein conjecture. May 7 Notification plan launched for campus alertsTo improve MIT's ability to communicate rapidly with members of the community during an emergency, MIT emergency planners are asking students, faculty and staff to enter or update their emergency notification information on line. May 7 |
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