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Chancellor Phillip L. Clay to step downHailed by President Hockfield as ‘an exceptional leader,’ he leaves a remarkable record of achievement.

Society of Women Engineers honors MIT Leaders for Global Operations graduate

Dr. Andrew Cook: The Engineer as Executive

Holdren sees opportunities in energy challengesPresidential science adviser calls for increased energy R&D to create jobs and boost business; supports conclusions of MIT nuclear study.

Catch the tweet stream: Alumni Leadership ConferenceSee the tweets from this weekend's Alumni Leadership Conference, where presentations covered topics such as social media, the 150th-anniversary celebration, the Sloan Engagement Study, and more.

Sculpture by Spanish artist Plensa to be installed on campusAlumnus is lending the work to MIT for one year in celebration of the Institute’s 150th anniversary.

MIT teams dominate national energy contestThree MIT-connected teams were among five finalists and won top two prizes in ConocoPhillips award program

CEE's Eric Adams receives the Ig Nobel Prize in chemistryEnvironmental engineers share prize with BP for work that proved oil and water really do mix

A spiritual path away from MIT leads one grad back to the InstituteRabbi Michelle Fisher returns to head up Hillel and prompts a new lecture series

Gail Kendall’s gift transforms historic labThe Rohsenow Kendall Heat and Mass Transfer Laboratory completes a total renovation

Bringing innovation to the worldMIT’s Deshpande Center helps technologies bridge the gap between the lab and the marketplace. The Obama administration likes what it sees.

There's no place like Maseeh HallStudents in the Phoenix Group get a behind-the-scenes look at what will be their new home next fall.

3 Questions: George Shultz on nuclear disarmamentThe former secretary of state (and former MIT professor) discusses his ongoing campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons.

700 families arrive for a taste of MITStudents' parents, grandparents and siblings experience campus through talks, tours and more as part of Family Weekend.

MIT economist Peter Diamond wins Nobel PrizeHonored with two others for work on 'analysis of markets with search frictions'

Two winning proposals for sustainable constructionStudents receive High Commendation from the Holcim Foundation.

Nergis Mavalvala wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grantPhysics professor and 2 alumni are awarded $500,000 in no-strings-attached funding.

International prize for solar cookerLow-cost portable device developed at MIT wins major prize in Netherlands competition.

Frank talk on U.S. energy innovationMIT alumnus Steven E. Koonin, DoE under secretary for science, says economics, not technology, is the driver.

Help design MIT’s 2010 holiday e-greetingCommunity members are invited to submit ideas for MIT's 2010 holiday e-greeting. Cash prize awarded to winner, runner-up.

MIT alumnus gives $24M to expand the Institute’s undergraduate student bodyFariborz Maseeh cites pressing need for MIT graduates.

Gates named MLK Visiting Professor in PhysicsSupersymmetry pioneer will conduct research this year at MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics.

Scientist-astronaut and former MIT professor William B. Lenoir dies at 71An MIT junior faculty member in the 1960s, he later flew on the space shuttle and became a NASA associate administrator.

Anish Kapoor sculpture unveiled in Stata CenterBold addition to Institute’s public-art collection made possible by MIT’s Percent-For-Art Program and donations.

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

Stringing together a picture of superconductorsMIT physicists use an offshoot of string theory to describe the strange behavior of superconducting materials.

Lunch with a Laureate: Robert HorvitzPresented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

Annual Technology Day Report 2010From Technology Day 2010 Against the Grain: The Power of Thinking Differently

Jodie Wu ’09 and Jamie Yang PhD ’08 selected as 2010 Echoing Green FellowsChosen from a pool of 1,000 applicants from 73 countries

Caulfield named White House FellowFormer GSC president and outgoing MIT Corporation member selected for elite Washington-based program.