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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 ...

Public communications in slow-moving crises
Like the housing collapse or the recent Gulf oil spill, some crises are complex, difficult to warn of, and don't cleanly fit traditional media frames. They are slow moving, and the media still struggles to rhetorically or technologically cover these simmering — rather than boiling — dramas. This Comm ...

ESD poster session
The MIT Engineering Systems Division will hold its eighth annual Engineering Systems Poster Session — featuring the work of ESD PhD students and their colleagues — from 5-7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 15, in 34-401.ESD research addresses significant, real-world challenges in the key domains of energy and su ...

Institute Professor Solow to deliver DUSP lecture
Institute Professor emeritus Robert Solow will deliver a talk titled "Inequality at the Low End: Low Wage Work in Rich Countries" from noon to 2 p.m. today in 32-141 as part of the fall speaker series presented by MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning.Solow, who has worked on issues of growth ...

Please play the exhibits: MIT Museum to feature experimental games from GAMBIT Game Lab
On Friday, Nov. 12, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab developers will be on hand at the MIT Museum to unveil an exhibit showing off MIT's ground-breaking gaming history.In media ranging from original sketches to playable games, the newest display in Sampling MIT, an exhibition showcasing some of the latest r ...

MIT Museum Soap Box: Mixing Oil and Ecosystems
While few would praise the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig as being a boon to environmental research, there is still much to be learned from this extreme tragedy. Chris Reddy, marine chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution studies how oil spills affect ocean ecosystems, a ...

Filmmaker, alumnus Ferguson to deliver Brunel lecture
Filmmaker Charles Ferguson, whose new documentary Inside Job takes an in-depth look at the causes and consequences of the 2008 global financial crisis, will present this year’s talk in the Brunel Lecture Series on Complex Systems, which is sponsored by the MIT Engineering Systems Division. Titled “Th ...

Artist, alumna to deliver "Give me shelter" lecture
Artist and MIT alumna Lauren Bon will speak at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 8, in Bartos Theatre. Her talk — titled "Metabolic Studio" and part of the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) Lecture Series "Give Me Shelter: Second Skin for Extreme Environments?" — will examine one day in the life of h ...

Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology regional finals this weekend at MIT
Could a group of high school students hold the answers to the great scientific challenges of our time? Find out this fall when America turns its eye to the young science stars competing in the renowned Siemens Competition in Math, Science & Technology — the nation’s premier science research compe ...

Integrity and Inner Transformation
Don Morrison, chief operating officer of Research In Motion, will deliver a talk titled "Integrity and Inner Transformation" at 7 p.m. today in Simmons Hall.Morrison oversees all domestic and international operations focusing on the development and execution of a world-class, customer-driven organization ...

Communications Forum: Media and the Law
What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Journalists have always had the privilege, protected by statute, of not having to reveal their sources. But as more investigative journalism is conducted by so-called amateurs and posted on blogs or websites ...

MIT CBI Biomanufacturing Summit taking place Nov. 17
The MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation’s Biomanufacturing Summit will take place this year from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Nov. 17, and focus on "Science to Manage Risk in Biomanufacturing."Biopharmaceuticals are a growing and complex class of drugs with significant potential to treat disease. However, the ...

Professor Yossi Sheffi in upcoming broadcast of CNBC's 'Executive Vision'
Yossi Sheffi, Elisha Gray II Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Division, will be featured in an upcoming episode of the CNBC series Executive Vision. The series, now in its second season, is a "global strategy session" in which host Simon Hobbs and ...

Paul Farmer to speak on ‘Rebuilding Haiti’
Medical anthropologist and doctor Paul Farmer, a leading expert on bringing health care to developing countries, will deliver the 2010 Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics, “Rebuilding Haiti,” on Friday, October 29th at 4:00 pm, in room 34-101.Farmer began administering health care to Haitian ...

Gulf oil spill explored at the MIT Museum
The MIT Museum's popular Soap Box series begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday with a participatory talk with MIT Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning Larry Susskind. Susskind, the founder and senior advisor of the Consensus Building Institute and a visiting professor in the Program on Negotiation at Ha ...

White House Science Advisor John Holdren to speak at MIT
Dr. John Holdren — assistant to the president for science and technology, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology — will deliver the David J. Rose Lecture in Nuclear Technology at 4 p.m. ...

Made for Goodness
The Reverend Mpho A. Tutu, an Episcopal priest and founder and executive director of the Tutu Institute for Prayer and Pilgrimage, will discuss her work and book "Made for Goodness" at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 23, in Simmons Hall.Tutu has run ministries for children in the downtown Worcester, Mass.; for ...

Bustani seminars focus on Mideast
The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar at MIT will celebrate its 25th anniversary with two lectures this fall on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs. On Oct. 26, Dr. Augustus Richard Norton, professor of international relations and anthropology at Boston University, will discuss “Lebanon: Consensus in T ...

Symposium to explore potential projects between MIT, Haiti
The MIT-Haitian "Best Practices for Reconstruction" Symposium is hosting a community open house on Friday, Oct. 22, to discuss potential collaborative projects between MIT faculty and Haitian universities. The open house, which is sponsored by the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education, will take ...

Interested in attending graduate school? Register for the virtual fair
Students and alumni are encouraged to register for and attend the Virtual Graduate School Fair, a unique virtual event that helps grad school seekers meet schools in an efficient, environmentally conscious way. The fair will take place Oct. 27 and 28. Register now to learn more about various graduate ...

Screening of Nuclear Tipping Point and conversation with George Shultz
George Shultz PhD ’49, who served as secretary of state in the Reagan Administration from 1982 to 1989, will today screen Nuclear Tipping Point and hold a public discussion about the global threat of nuclear weapons use in the age of terrorism. The event will take place at 1 p.m. in Wong Auditorium (Bu ...

Seventh annual Energy Night tomorrow
The flagship event of the MIT Energy Club, MIT Energy Night showcases the most exciting energy research, education and entrepreneurship at MIT. This year's event will take place from 5:30-8:30 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 15, at the MIT Museum (265 Massachusetts Ave.), and is free and open to the public. P ...

Levine to lead BSO in performing Harbison’s Symphony No. 3
The Boston Symphony Orchestra and Music Director James Levine this week open their second program of the 2010-11 season with MIT Institute Professor John Harbison’s Symphony No. 3, initiating a two-season survey of the composer’s symphonies. Following intermission, Levine and the BSO continue their o ...

The Energy Challenge: Innovation and the Role of ARPA-E
Arun Majumdar, director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E), will discuss the energy challenge and the role of his agency during a talk at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 13, in Bartos Theater. Majumdar, who became ARPA-E's first director in October 2009, leads the country’s only ag ...

IDEAS and Global Challenge Generator
Want funding for your innovative community service project?Want to recruit new members or mentors for your IDEAS or Global Challenge team? Want to get involved, but don’t yet have an idea? Then come to the IDEAS Generator Dinner from 7-9 p.m. on Oct. 13 in Morss Hall in Walker Memorial. RSVPs are ap ...

LaserFest 2010: The Laser at 50
Join students and scientists from MIT, Lincoln Laboratory and MIT’s chapter of the Optical Society of America for a panel discussion and hands-on activities exploring the science of the laser from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the MIT Museum. Highlights of this free evening at the MIT Museum include artifacts from ...

Communication Forum: the online migration of newspapers
The fate of newspapers is an ongoing subject for the MIT Communications Forum, and this conversation explores the migration of newspapers to the Internet and what that means for traditional concepts of journalism. Amid the emergence of citizens' media and the blogosphere, newspapers are adapting to a cha ...

More like us: human-centric computing
New trends in technology are transforming how we interact with computers. Increasingly intelligent devices and more natural experiences using voice, touch and gestures are starting to emerge in mobile applications and more. Soon wall-sized displays, powered by ultrafast processors and advanced software, ...

Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility
David M. Walker, president and CEO of the Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former comptroller general of the United States, will speak at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Oct. 6, as part of the Ethics Initiative from the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT.In his capacity as CEO of the Peter G. ...