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MIT Sloan Fellows Program is vehicle to successMIT Sloan Fellow talks about the concept of car sharing.

A world of OCW benefits: Powering career advancementZiya Deniz Eralp’s search for management information and training led him to OCW and ultimately to MIT's System Design and Management Program.

Student input guides MIT Housing's summer renovationsEast Campus, McCormick Hall, Next House and Senior House see new kitchens, facades and more.

Teaching a microbe to make fuelGenetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.

Most massive and luminous galaxy cluster identifiedDetection may confirm long-held theory.

CEE's Humbyrd wins School of Engineering teaching and mentoring awardAward recognizes and encourages extraordinary teaching and mentoring by a graduate student in the school.

New router enhances the precision of woodworkingHandheld device precisely follows a digital plan with minimal guidance from a user.

MIT Cycling Team rides to (another) national championshipBanner year for women and men cements club's reputation as perennial powerhouse.

Writing graphics software gets much easierA new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.

Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectanglesNew technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.

Researchers explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light’s energyTiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency.

Student teams tackle Third World health care issuesLGO students add operations expertise to ghdLab projects

Glen Urban, former MIT Sloan dean, retires to focus on research; leaves behind $1 million giftEstablishes a PhD marketing fellowship at the school

A festive day for MIT’s 146th Commencement exercisesGraduates reminisce and celebrate in innovative ways.

President Susan Hockfield’s charge to the 2012 graduates‘Now is the moment for us to send you forth … to put MIT’s spirit and principles to work around the globe.’

Sal Khan's Commencement addressAlumnus, Khan Academy founder speaks to the Class of 2012

Sal Khan salutes ‘the wizards of tomorrow’In commencement address, 1998 alumnus asks the Class of 2012 to perform a thought experiment in time travel.

Slideshow: Doctoral hooding ceremonyNew PhD, ScD recipients honored at annual ceremony.

Engineering CommencementInnovations and traditions evolve with the history of MIT graduation.

System improves automated monitoring of security camerasNew approach uses mathematics to reach a compromise between accuracy, speed.

From yeast, researchers learn how populations collapseFindings could help fishery and wildlife managers monitor their stocks before disaster strikes.

Josh Shifrinson: decline of power playMilitary strategy for a declining United States in a complex world

MIT awarded more than $2 million in NEUP grants, fellowshipsIncludes $1.65 million in Department of Energy Nuclear Energy University Programs grants and $450,000 in graduate student fellowships.

Nuclear science and engineering graduate students win NEUP fellowshipsBlack, Boyd and Shaner among 31 recipients

CloudTop takes top $100K competition prizeA record 215 teams competed in this year’s business plan competition.

Students hail selection of L. Rafael Reif as MIT’s 17th presidentMembers of Student Advisory Committee cite president-elect’s ‘strong leadership and a willingness to engage students’ as provost.

Science Policy Initiative calls on Congress to support investments in R&DStudents traveled to Washington to urge continued funding.