MIT in the news
May 5, 2008
A selection of recent clips about MIT in the news media.
Newsweek
May 12, 2008
"It's a Monday night at MIT, just a few weeks before final exams. Grad students Tegin Teich and Todd Schenk could be studying or relaxing. Instead, they're hustling through a maze of basement hallways in search of notorious energy hogs: vending machines. ... Trouble is, MIT isn't exactly sure where all its vending machines are located, or which ones already have the devices installed. So tonight it's enlisted the MIT Energy Club to help figure it out."
Boston Globe
May 5, 2008
"Ram Sasisekharan led the international team that turned the heparin contamination crisis in America into a rapid-response triumph. ... 'He has the lowest wind resistance on solving a problem of anyone I've ever met,' said John Essigmann, a professor of toxicology and chemistry at MIT."
Washington Post
May 5, 2008
"Prompt treatment of a common stomach infection reverses the damage that can lead to gastric cancer, according to tests on mice done by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The findings should put a stop to any questions about whether, and when, antibiotic treatment of Helicobacter pylorican reduce or eliminate the risk of developing stomach cancer."
ABC News, by Randolph E. Schmid, Associated Press
May 1, 2008
"The happy babbling that entertains parents as their babies try to mimic speech turns out to have a parallel in the animal world. Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science."
Boston.com
April 30, 2008
"Anyone who lives in the U.S. - even a Buddhist monk who lives in the forest half the year - emits more than twice as much greenhouse gas than those living in the rest of the world, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology class has discovered."
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