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The world has problems. You have ideas. Enter for up to $25,000 to make your idea reality
The IDEAS Competition and MIT Global Challenge are an annual invention and entrepreneurship competition that support projects addressing the needs of underserved communities in many areas — such as water, sanitation, education, health, entrepreneurship, disaster relief and much more. The MIT Global Cha ...

MIT Tech Fair
The annual Tech Fair — a student-run technology expo dedicated to innovation — will take place from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 31, in Rockwell Cage, welcoming companies such as Oracle, Facebook, 23andme, Dropbox and many more.The Tech Fair is conducted "trade-show" style, and visitors will ...

Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy
This two-day symposium — part of the MIT150 celebration — features six panels comprising Nobel laureates, policy makers and academic and industry experts. While concurrently celebrating MIT’s role in advancing knowledge, professional practice, and public policy in the areas of economics and finance ...

Graduate Resident Tutor information session this Wednesday
Interested in becoming a GRT? Attend a GRT Information Session from 6-7 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 26, in E51-151, Tang Center.Graduate Resident Tutors (GRTs) applications are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 year. GRTs are graduate students who live in undergraduate dorms as mentors, playing key roles ...

Fuller to lead interdisciplinary NEH summer seminar
"English Encounters with the Americas, 1550-1610" is a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) sponsored summer seminar for college professors to be held July 5-29 at MIT. The gathering, which will convene guest speakers from history of science, colonial history and archaeology, is only the second NE ...

Social Media — Trust, Information Seeking and Systems Innovation in the Digital Age
Social Media: Trust, Information Seeking & Systems Innovation in the Digital Age — an Independent Activities Period course taking place starting on Thursday, Jan. 20 — will focus on understanding the impact of social media and underlying social networks on public trust, individual decision-making ...

Independent Activities Period UROP Expo for Undergraduates
Never participated in MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)? Want to get involved, but don't know where to start? Come to the 2011 IAP UROP Expo and meet faculty, staff and students representing UROP departments, labs and centers across campus. The expo provides an excellent opportuni ...

150 and beyond
It's a sesquintenial celebration at the MIT Museum! Be among the first to explore the new MIT150 Exhibition, which celebrates 150 years of Institute invention and innovation, at this free opening event taking place from 5-8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 14.Mingle with members of the MIT community as you discover ...

It's time to getfit@mit
A new decade has dawned — and perhaps with it, a new you? If getting more exercise was on your New Year’s to-do list, register for getfit@mit, the annual fitness challenge that’s open to the entire MIT community.Online registration for the 12-week challenge opens on Monday, Jan. 10, at http://getfi ...

Community reception, opening of the MIT150 exhibition at the MIT Museum
The MIT 150th anniversary celebration will officially begin with a community preview of the MIT150 exhibition at the MIT Museum on Friday, Jan. 7. Alumni, faculty, staff and students are invited to the MIT Museum for a reception and exhibition preview from 3-5 p.m. Because of the expected snow on Friday ...

Gordon-MIT ELP IAP course highlights lessons learned by engineering leaders Ray Stata, Kurt Dasse and others
Renowned leaders from diverse engineering backgrounds will share their unique engineering leadership experiences in “Delivering Leadership Success,” a new five-day course offered Jan. 3-7 during Independent Activites Period (IAP) by the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program. The course ...

Organ concert to be broadcast from the MIT Chapel starting Dec. 31
Organist Leonardo Ciampa puts the MIT Chapel organ through its paces in a varied and colorful program that will be broadcast on the web starting Dec. 31. Five centuries are represented, everything from the fiery Praeludium in G, written in 1690 by Buxtehude, to “No Darkness At All”, written in 2004 b ...

MIT CBI and Department of Biological Engineering to co-host major healthcare innovation symposium
On Feb. 1, 2011, the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation (CBI) and MIT Department of Biological Engineering will co-host the Innovation in Healthcare Symposium: Systems Thinking from Discovery to Delivery at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium. The daylong event will be a forum to stimulate new ways of thinking t ...

Luminous Windows returns to the MIT Museum
The MIT Museum’s third annual Luminous Windows winter exhibition of holography features technical achievements by companies and individuals working in this revolutionary imaging technology since 1984. Every evening for several months the following holograms are on view to the public in the windows of t ...

Request for proposals: Sanofi-aventis Biomedical Innovation Award (SABIP) Program
Sanofi-aventis encourages researchers from across MIT to collaborate in exploring innovative research to advance knowledge in the area of human health though basic and applied research. In that spirit, proposals are now being accepted for Biomedical Innovation Awards; proposals must be focused on tec ...

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2011 iCampus Prize Competition
Have you ever thought, "My education at MIT would be infinitely better or easier if there was just a technology to…?" Or, "Student life at MIT could be dramatically improved with the creative application of technology?" Well, now’s the time to show MIT and your fellow classmates how you might provide ...

Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program (F/ASIP) enrollment now open for students and employers
Applications are now being accepted for the Freshman/Alumni Summer Internship Program (F/ASIP), a graded seminar which offers participating MIT freshmen: Career exploration and development training, including self-assessment, as well as resume writing, career decision making, interviewing skills, inte ...

Students: nominate a high school mentor for MIT's Inspirational Teacher Award
MIT students are encouraged to nominate their favorite, or most influential, high school teacher for the MIT Inspirational Teacher Award. Deadline for nominations is Dec. 15. Last year’s winners hailed from 15 different states around the country, as well as Malaysia, Canada, England and Turkey. More th ...

Apply for a SMURF fellowship
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Simons to deliver School of Science colloquium
James Simons ‘58, president of Euclidean Capital and founder and chairman of the Board of Renaissance Technologies, will deliver a talk titled "Mathematics, Common Sense and Good Luck: My Life and Careers" beginning at 4:15 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9, in the Pappalardo Room (4-349).A community reception ...

Community winter break today
As exams and holidays approach, the MIT community is invited to log off, drop in and rev up at today's Community Winter Break taking place from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Lobby 7.Sponsored by the Undergraduate Association, the Graduate Student Council and the Office of the President, the all-campus event will inc ...

Glass Lab Holiday Sale
A dizzying array of work created by students and instructors of MIT’s Glass Lab will be on sale today and tomorrow during the lab's annual holiday sale.The sale will take place today from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. and tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Lobby 10.The Glass Lab sales are venues for students at al ...

2.009 Product Engineering presentations
The students of MIT's 2.009 Product Engineering Processes course will deliver their final presentations from 7:30-10 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9, in Kresge Auditorium. The event is open to the public, but please RSVP if you plan on attending.This year's class will showcase eight new product prototypes all foc ...

A symposium to honor Millie Dresselhaus on her 80th birthday
A symposium honoring MIT Institute Professor Millie Dresselhaus, who celebrates her 80th birthday this year, is taking place today, Dec. 4. The symposium begins at 9:30 a.m. in Room 32-123; a detailed program can be viewed here. At 5:30 p.m., the symposium will officially become a celebration, and the fe ...

MIT Sloan Energy Finance Forum
In a capital-intensive industry such as energy, access to financing is critical. The second-annual MIT Sloan Energy Finance Forum will examine this topic, with panels and speakers slated to explore the life cycle of energy finance from early to late-stage venture capital fundraising. The forum — which ...

Future of the oceans
"The Future of the Oceans: Building a New Agenda for Ocean Research and Education," a workshop centering on three themes — Oceans, Climate and Environment, Life in the Oceans, and Ocean Resource and Energy Use, will take place from on Thursday, Dec. 2, in the McGovern Auditorium of the Whitehead Instit ...

Can technology solve global poverty?
Ideas Matter, a joint project of Boston Review and MIT’s Department of Political Science, is a lecture series that brings Boston Review writers together with other experts and practitioners for substantive debate on the challenges of our times. The first event in the series — which will take place fr ...

Unique mechanics of cellular materials focus of new book by DMSE’s Gibson
A new book co-authored by Lorna Gibson, the Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, brings to life the fascinating structures and unique mechanics of natural and biomedical cellular materials. Arranged in three parts, Cellular Materials in Nature and Medicine (Cambridge Unive ...

Symposium: Darwin and the debate over human origins
To mark the 151st anniversary of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, MIT’s Science of the Eye program will hold a symposium on “Darwin and the Debate over Human Origins” a 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Broad Institute Auditorium.Lecturers will include: Darwin scholar Janet Browne, professor in the D ...