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MIT graduate students give backFood drive as part of the Sidney-Pacific House Cup nets nearly 1,500 pounds of donations for local food bank.

In the World: Turning waste into profitStudents aim to improve Kenyan slum-dwellers’ access to basic sanitation — and generate renewable energy and jobs along the way.

Xerox CEO Ursula Burns to deliver 2011 Commencement addressWill help cap MIT's 150th anniversary celebration

A worldly educationA Master of Science in Management Studies student extols the opportunities of the new program.

Four from MIT are Stewardship Science Graduate fellowsGraduate students take practicum at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

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

Hitting the tough shotsMBA student Peljto turns passion into projects; works behind the scenes on the sports analytics conference.

Vikings strike at Cambridge regattaNo, not the famous one. The other one.

Keeping it real through systems thinkingSDM student addresses real-world challenges in his academic studies.

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

Systems thinking in the mobile space

Biology rides to computers’ aidPhotonic crystals could usher in an age of low-power optical computing, but they’re hard to manufacture. Maybe adding a little DNA would help.

Nuclear science and engineering graduate student wins NuMat awardHonored for originality of research, quality of presentation at conference

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

Faster websites, more reliable dataWeb servers that store data locally save time on database searches but sometimes serve up obsolete results. A new system solves that problem.

MIT cyclists best overall at 2010 Collegiate National Track ChampionshipsFor third consecutive year, team wins Division II Omnium.

Physics postdoc Lindley Winslow wins L’Oreal USA fellowshipAccompanying research grant will allow the particle physicist to design and build a novel particle detector based on quantum dots.

CEE researchers collaborate with Nobel Prize winnerTeam explains tearing mechanism of the triangular-shaped ribbons of graphene

Surprising similarities between human and zebrafish tumorsNew finding that tumor cells in both species have too many chromosomes could help pinpoint genes that drive cancer development.

Why telecom regulation needs to changeResearch suggests that the approach that worked with a few large companies with aligned interests needs revisiting in the Internet age.

Four engineering students named Intel PhD fellowship recipientsMaterials science, EECS graduate students among 27 honored

New nanoparticles could improve cancer treatmentParticles can deliver a combination of chemotherapy drugs directly to prostate-cancer cells.

Your vital signs, on cameraMIT team develops system for continuous medical monitoring using widely available video technology.

In the World: Health care in the palm of a handMIT-led student team develops mobile-device software to help improve health-care accessibility in remote regions.