Collaboration
MIT OpenCourseWare teams up with Flat World Knowledge to combine free texts and free course materials
February 29, 2012
Collaboration among open education innovators creates rich learning opportunities for independent learners.
Delivering RNA with tiny sponge-like spheres
February 27, 2012
New RNA interference method holds promise for treating cancer, other diseases.
Cuthbert receives $500,000 Digging into Data grant
February 10, 2012
Will support innovative musicology research
MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing
January 25, 2012
Study group is tackling hard questions about what it will take to stoke renewal.
AgeLab to build living mobility laboratory
January 19, 2012
Gender spenders
January 18, 2012
Study suggests yet another cause of personal debt: searching for the ideal mate.
Proposal for MIT Global Environment Initiative seeks public comment
December 21, 2011
Initiative expected to focus on six broad environmental research themes.
Also labeled: Environment, Faculty, MIT Administration, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), Research, Students, Sustainability, Provost
Next stop: Kendall Square
November 23, 2011
Tech hub attracts players large and small to support innovation.
Digging for answers
November 22, 2011
MIT, Pfizer hold groundbreaking for new biomedical research facility in Kendall Square.
Inside an innovation ecosystem
November 22, 2011
History, proximity and serendipity make Kendall Square fertile ground for the next big idea.
Also labeled: Cambridge, Boston and region, Campus buildings and architecture, Faculty, Industry, Jobs, Kendall Square, Research, Students
Seeing cancer in three dimensions
November 21, 2011
Scientists find that the 3-D structure of a cancer cell’s chromosomes plays a big role in which genes get deleted or copied.
Also labeled: Broad Institute, Cancer, Genetics, Genome, Health sciences and technology, Physics, Research
Engineering Systems Division and MIT Press launch book series
November 16, 2011
Materials research in the Information Age
November 4, 2011
MIT, Lawrence Berkeley launch new tool to calculate properties of new materials
Also labeled: Commercialization, Computer science and technology, Energy, Genetics, Genome, Materials science
Searching for balloons in a social network
October 28, 2011
The key to mobilizing large numbers of people is incentives, study finds.
Skolkovo Foundation and MIT to collaborate on developing the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
October 26, 2011
Graduate research university part of new innovation center outside Moscow
Commemorating 20 years of the JR East Professorship
October 21, 2011
MIT Sea Grant contributes to stormwater monitoring effort in Kingston, Mass.
October 21, 2011
Coastal ecologist Juliet Simpson heads up nutrient sampling component.
What’s next for engineering education?
October 21, 2011
Dean of Engineering to share his views on engineering education in the face of increasing need for innovative technical leaders.
Computer science gives a boost to heart health
October 13, 2011
New technique searches for subtle indicators of risk hidden in a patient’s EKG.
Building innovation in India
September 27, 2011
MIT-India conference explores nation’s challenges, opportunities
Also labeled: Economics, Finance, Government transparency, Health care, India, Global, Policy, Special events and guest speakers, Students
LGBT content and video games: MIT lab tackles the issue
September 22, 2011
Popular games still haven’t shown they can handle lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender representations. Research at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab wants to change that.
Pfizer expands its research footprint in Cambridge
September 1, 2011
Announces lease of space in building being developed by MIT
Andrew Lo joins CSAIL
August 30, 2011
Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk.
Sanofi Biomedical Innovation Award Program announces request for proposals
August 12, 2011
Biomedical Innovation Funding Awards (BIFAs)- Application deadline: Sept. 6
Polishing its reputation for experimental lit, MIT to host the Electronic Literature Organization
August 10, 2011
Also labeled: Arts, Books and authors, Comparative Media Studies, Digital, Humanities, Literature, languages and writing
President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors
July 15, 2011
‘Lasting economic growth emerges from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology,’ she says.
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