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Economists support different development path - Celebrating the inauguration of MIT's Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship on Oct. 7, five Nobel laureates in economics, including MIT Institute Professor Paul Samuelson, spoke on "the role of entrepreneurship in development." October 10, 2008

MIT research bringing 'smart bikes' to Denmark - MIT researchers unveiled a major new project on Oct. 10 in Copenhagen aimed at transforming bicycle use in Denmark's largest city, promoting urban sustainability and building new connections between the city's cyclists. October 10, 2008

DUSP welcomes 17 international fellows - The Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT recently welcomed 17 fellows as part of the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies, a one-year program designed for mid-career professionals from newly industrializing countries. October 9, 2008

Bustani seminars focus on Mideast - The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar at MIT will celebrate its 23rd anniversary with two lectures this fall on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs. October 8, 2008

Report debunks China energy myth - A detailed analysis of powerplants in China by MIT researchers debunks the widespread notion that outmoded energy technology or the utter absence of government regulation is to blame for that country's notorious air-pollution problems. October 6, 2008

MIT marks 25 years of international initiatives - The Institute celebrated 25 years of international engagement through its pioneering MISTI program at an Oct. 2 dinner. MISTI prepares MIT students to participate in the global economy by connecting them to hands-on opportunities across the globe. October 6, 2008

Development fair to showcase world of opportunities - Students who might be interested in fostering development in a sustainable way in different parts of the world will have a chance to sample a wide range of opportunities on Oct. 3 at MIT's seventh annual International Development Fair. October 1, 2008

An a-maize-ing path out of poverty - Jodie Wu, an MIT senior in mechanical engineering, spent the summer traveling around Tanzania to introduce a new system for processing corn: A simple attachment for a bicycle that makes it possible to remove the kernels quickly and efficiently. October 1, 2008

MIT hosts first UrbLab conference Oct. 3 - The MIT Urbanization Laboratory is organizing a symposium on the culture and politics of urban change that will be held from 1-5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 3, in 7-431. October 1, 2008

Designing a landfill of epic proportions - Many architects dream of being given a blank slate upon which they could let the imagination soar when designing a project. A team led by two MIT architects is working on what could be the largest blank slate in the history of construction. September 26, 2008

Kagame underscores tech ties in Compton speech - Connections between the technology-hungry countries of Africa and the tech-savvy MIT community were underscored Sept. 18 by the first democratically elected president of Rwanda and the first African leader to give MIT's prestigious Compton lecture. September 19, 2008

MITEI awards second round of seed grants - The MIT Energy Initiative's second round of seed grants for energy research, announced this week, will go toward a wide array of research topics ranging from power projects for developing countries to computer software that can help to optimize energy use. September 18, 2008

Rwanda's Kagame to deliver Compton lecture Sept. 18 - Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who as a boy had to flee his homeland to escape ethnic violence, will present the Karl Taylor Compton Lecture 18 from 3:30-5 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in MIT's Kresge Auditorium. September 16, 2008

MIT panel to address foreign challenges - Tough questions confronting the next American president will be discussed by MIT scholars from 6-7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 18, in a roundtable discussion on "Foreign Policy and the Next U.S. Administration: America's Defining Moment." September 16, 2008

MIT awaits world's biggest physics experiment - MIT physicists are waiting anxiously to sift through data from the world's biggest physics experiment, which officially started Sept. 10 when scientists sent the first beam of protons zooming at nearly the speed of light around the Large Hadron Collider. September 10, 2008

How I spent my summer vacation - Whether it was public service in South Dakota, an internship in Israel or Lincoln Laboratory, MIT students didn't just lounge around after classes ended last spring. Read a sampling of what some MIT students did over the last three months. September 10, 2008

Lucian W. Pye, leading China scholar, 86 - Retired MIT political science professor Lucian W. Pye, one of America's leading China scholars, died Sept. 5 in Boston after a long illness. He was 86. September 8, 2008

New initiative to fund faculty research worldwide - MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives has unveiled new seed funding for international collaboration that supports faculty research worldwide and encourages student participation. September 5, 2008

Solutions-driven culture draws Fallon to MIT - He has been in all the world's hot spots in the last 40 years -- both as soldier and commander -- and now Admiral William J. Fallon brings his hands-on experience and wide-ranging knowledge to MIT's Center for International Studies. September 2, 2008

MIT's Chang has three-part role in major show - The work of Yung Ho Chang, head of the architecture department, is on display at London's Victoria and Albert Museum this summer as part of a major exhibit showcasing the latest in architecture, fashion and graphic design from China. August 18, 2008

Photo exhibit provides glimpse of Malian capital - A quest for artists around the world by MIT's Office of the Arts has produced a photo journal from Africa that will temporarily grace the walls of the Rotch Library. August 12, 2008

Improving people's lives, one device at a time - Using a bicycle wheel to thresh millet and making LEGO-like bricks from dirt were among the projects designed during a month-long summer workshop at MIT to help improve the lives of millions of people living in the world's developing countries. August 8, 2008

MIT Portugal students win entrepreneurship competition - Researchers and students from the MIT Portugal Program hope a new biotechnology they developed will help treat patients with medical complications from abnormal protein breakdown. July 23, 2008

MIT students help cities plan for changing climate - Ten graduate students from MIT recently spent three weeks in Durban, South Africa, working on a project to develop an online tool that could help municipal governments around the world adapt to a changing climate. July 22, 2008

MIT Global Startup Workshop conference to be held in Africa - The MIT Global Startup Workshop announced Monday that it will be holding its 12th annual conference in Cape Town, South Africa, from March 25-27, 2009, focusing on fostering sustainable ventures in developing regions. July 15, 2008

Conference looks to Sichuan's future after quake - An MIT-organized conference this week in Beijing represents the first major international academic gathering dedicated to assisting Chinese leaders with post-disaster planning issues following May's devastating 7.9 magnitude earthquake. July 14, 2008

A hands-on approach to Third World aid - About 60 people from 20 nations will descend on the MIT campus next week to begin an intensive month-long process of creating technological solutions for the needs of people in the world's developing nations. July 10, 2008

Front-row seat for summer's physics extravaganza - Nearly 20 years in the making, the largest particle accelerator in the world will start running in Switzerland this summer, offering scientists a glimpse of particles that have never been seen before. July 1, 2008

Simple insulation could combat heat, cold and noise - Around the world, an estimated one billion people--mostly in rural villages and the shanty towns surrounding developing-world cities--live in houses whose roofs are nothing more than thin sheets of corrugated metal. July 1, 2008

Ex-CENTCOM commander joins MIT Center for International Studies - Admiral William J. Fallon will join the MIT Center for International Studies as a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow. Admiral Fallon, former commander of U.S. Central Command and U.S. Pacific Command, will make the Center his academic home for nine months. June 19, 2008

Making a splash in Zaragoza - An MIT-designed building featuring water walls that can be programmed to display patterns and images is being unveiled this week at the opening of the Zaragoza World Expo in Spain. June 12, 2008

Center for International Studies awards - Awards given in the MIT Center for International Studies for the academic year 2007-2008. June 4, 2008

Eradicating TB with ... cell phone minutes? - MIT students have come up with a possible solution for getting TB patients to take their medicine: A new testing and reporting system that is easy for patients to use and offers economic incentives such as free cell phone minutes. June 4, 2008

Student project innovates solar cooker in Tibet - When two students visited Tibet two years ago, they kept hearing from villagers that a solar cooker that was both lightweight and strong would make a big difference to their lives. So a team of students from MIT and Tibet ended up producing exactly that. June 4, 2008

Legatum Center announces first class of entrepreneurs - The Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT has announced its first class of Legatum Fellows. The students' projects range from generating clean, low-cost energy to developing mobile medical diagnostic devices. May 23, 2008

MIT to remember victims of recent disasters May 27 - MIT will observe a moment of reflection at noon on Tuesday, May 27, for the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives this month in natural disasters in China and Myanmar. May 23, 2008

On a roll: Students bring mobility to remote areas - MIT students in this year's 'Wheelchair Design in Developing Countries' class split into five teams and each came up with new variations on how to help bring mobility to people whose lives could be dramatically changed by it. May 21, 2008

Disarmament expert sees U.S.-Iran solution - An MIT expert on Iran's nuclear ambitions is gaining recognition for his work in developing a possible face-saving solution to the tense nuclear standoff between the United States and Iran. May 19, 2008

Art + technology = clean water in Ecuador - MIT student Kendra Johnson found that to improve water quality in a rural Ecuadorian village, she needed to consider economic issues in addition to technology, and so ended up devising an innovative way of using local arts to pay for the project. May 14, 2008

MIT students propose X-Prizes for health - Can a prize designed for the high-tech challenge of helping to get people into space be applied to solving down-to-Earth problems of life and death? Pose the question to a class of MIT students and two out of three give a resounding "yes." May 13, 2008

China Forum lecture series begins May 14 - MIT will kick off a new monthly lecture series on China with a talk by Yingyi Qian, dean of the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and professor of economics at UC Berkeley. Qian will speak about China's economic transformation. May 7, 2008

Lightman lights up future for Cambodians - Alan Lightman, MIT physicist and writer, and his wife, Jeanne, made a pact a decade or so ago to turn their energies toward humanitarian pursuits. The latest of their efforts is a dream come true for residents of a small Cambodian village -- a new mosque. May 7, 2008

An earthquake's aftermath - Students and faculty from MIT's CityScope class visited a small Peruvian town over spring break to learn about the earthquake-stricken city's needs and how they might help restore water supplies, health-care and a sense of community. April 30, 2008

Edwards urges students to make themselves heard - The global problems of climate change, population growth and severe poverty are so enormous that no one country can solve them alone, John Edwards told attendees at a student-organized conference on global poverty at MIT. April 18, 2008

Student conference targets global poverty - Former senator and presidential candidate John Edwards will be among the speakers at an MIT conference April 18-20 involving more than 1,000 students from around the country dedicated to fighting the problems of extreme poverty in the world. April 16, 2008

A blueprint for no carbon footprint - Abu Dhabi is taking the long view, planning for a future beyond oil. The most dramatic piece of the emirate's plans is its creation of a whole new city from scratch, centered on an institute of technology modeled after, and created in collaboration with, MIT. April 16, 2008

Dower probes 'cultures of war' in lecture - John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, teased out the threads connecting cultures of war from individual nations' densely woven rhetoric about victory in his Killian award lecture, presented Monday, April 7, at MIT. April 9, 2008

What is good water worth? - MIT Senior Lecturer Susan Murcott started a nonprofit enterprise in 2005 to sell a simple, low-cost ceramic water filter system to residents of northern Ghana, home to the country's most contaminated water supplies. April 8, 2008

Dower to deliver Killian Award lecture - John Dower, Ford International Professor of History, will speak on "Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq" at the 36th annual Killian Award lecture at 4:30 p.m. Monday, April 7, in Kirsch Auditorium. April 2, 2008

Two MIT student projects win peace grants - Two MIT student projects to promote peace in Sudan and in Bangladesh have won Davis Projects for Peace grants of $10,000 each. April 1, 2008

MIT launches global network of supply chain centers - MIT's Center for Transportation and Logistics has announced the creation of an international alliance of leading research and education centers dedicated to the development of supply chain and logistics excellence through innovation. March 27, 2008

MIT, Portugal sign energy agreement - MIT and the government of Portugal have formed a partnership to address critical energy issues and strengthen transatlantic cooperation in energy research. Portugal will become the inaugural Sustaining Public Member of the MIT Energy Initiative. March 26, 2008

'Just Jerusalem' competition winners announced - MIT's Jerusalem 2050 Program announced today the winners of its global Just Jerusalem competition, in which participants were asked to focus on 'just' the city as a place where, by mid-century, its citizenries co-exist in peace. March 21, 2008

MIT finds pre-Columbian use of transport rafts - Oceangoing sailing rafts plied the waters of the equatorial Pacific long before Europeans arrived in the Americas, and traveled from modern-day Chile to western Mexico, according to new findings by MIT researchers. March 19, 2008

Bringing a bit of MIT to Africa - Armed with a grant from the MIT Public Service Center, sophomore Edison Achelengwa returned to his home country of Cameroon during January to work on installing MIT's OpenCourseWare on computers in two of the country's universities. March 19, 2008

EECS in Asia - Markus Zahn and Hsiao-Wuen Hon sign an agreement to send EECS students to the Beijing-based Microsoft Research Asia. March 19, 2008

Student work improves amputees' prosthetics - A team of MIT students has been working on a new device that could greatly simplify the process of fitting artificial legs in India, producing a better fit while eliminating some steps in the process and reducing waste materials. March 5, 2008

Sloan to partner on business education in Portugal - The MIT Sloan School of Management, two universities in Portugal and a group of Portuguese private corporations have entered into an agreement under which MIT Sloan will help the schools strengthen their capacity in business education. March 5, 2008

Shedding a bright light on village needs - Two MIT graduate students have led an effort to supply hot water to a girl's high school dorm in Lesotho through the design of a concentrating solar array. Another nearby village features the students' solar heater, located near the community's well. February 27, 2008

Bustani lectures to feature Avishai - The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar at MIT, now in its 22nd year, will present two lectures this spring on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs. February 19, 2008

How to toughen up environmental treaties - According to MIT Professor Lawrence Susskind, few global environmental treaties have done more than slow the pace of ecological damage, due problems with ratification, enforcement and financial support. February 16, 2008

Saving the rainforest with … toys? - Some villagers in Honduran communities who used to take part in the illegal trade in mahogany have turned to sustainable wood harvesting. But they need more markets. And that's where MIT Sloan School master's student Craig Doescher comes in. February 13, 2008

Smart pillbox could be a lifesaver - An MIT student and team of collaborators think may have found a high-tech solution in a low-tech package to the problem of ensuring that patients take their tuberculosis medication. Their simple but 'smart' pillbox could save lives throughout the world. February 6, 2008

Time to act on sustainability, speakers say - It's time for work toward sustainable development and sustainable energy systems to turn toward action, solutions and implementation. That was the message that emerged as hundreds from around the world converged on MIT last week. February 6, 2008

Application for IDDS 2008 now available - The International Development Design Summit (IDDS) 2008 will take place from July 14 through Aug. 8. February 6, 2008

New MIT program to monitor global air, water quality - Researchers from MIT and two Singaporean universities have launched a bold international research program to develop pervasive environmental sensor networks to collect data on air and water quality from many sources. February 5, 2008

IAP class probes Singapore highway collapse - MIT Professor Andrew Whittle, who was one of four international experts chosen to probe the catastrophic collapse of a subway excavation in Singapore, presented his findings in the IAP class, "What Caused the Collapse of the Nicoll Highway in Singapore?" February 1, 2008

MIT and ABB form energy research partnership - MIT and Switzerland-based ABB, a global leader in power and automation technology, have formed a partnership to conduct and support a variety of energy research projects with the aim of helping meet the world's need for clean electricity and energy efficiency. January 24, 2008

About 'In The World' - In The World is a column from the MIT News Office that explores the ways people from MIT are using technology--from the appropriately simple to the cutting-edge--to help meet the needs of local people in places around the planet. January 24, 2008

Pumping up desert agriculture - Thanks to a new venture set up by two MIT students, subsistence farmers on the edge of the Sahara desert in Sudan will soon get a chance to improve their crops and their livelihoods using inexpensive treadle-powered water pumps. January 23, 2008

SMART Centre to be hub for global research - MIT and Singapore's NRF have announced the official launch of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, or SMART Centre, consisting of laboratories and computational facilities in a variety of research areas. January 22, 2008

MIT site puts human face on Iraq war - As the war in Iraq approaches its fifth anniversary, a new MIT web site aims to provide an accurate account of living conditions, as well as civilian injuries and deaths due to political violence, throughout the Middle Eastern state. January 18, 2008

MIT, Eni announce energy research partnership - MIT and Italian energy company Eni today announced a major energy research partnership, including a program focusing on the development of advanced solar technologies, from novel photovoltaic materials to the design of solar power plants. January 15, 2008

Microcredit pioneer to be Commencement speaker - Muhammad Yunus, winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, will deliver MIT's 2008 Commencement address on June 6. Yunus won the Nobel Prize for pioneering the microlending movement, which offers credit without collateral to the poor. December 5, 2007

MIT forges new ties with India - President Susan Hockfield led an MIT delegation on a historic trip to India Nov. 16-24, meeting with key government and business leaders and strengthening ties between the Institute and the world's largest democracy. December 5, 2007

War-injured boy inspired new Marshall Scholar - Ali Alhassani, an MIT senior who discovered his passion for medicine through the friendship of a war-injured Iraqi boy, has been awarded a Marshall Scholarship, and will study health policy, planning and financing in London. December 4, 2007

MIT marks OpenCourseWare milestone - At an event hosted by MIT President Hockfield on Nov. 28, the MIT community will celebrate a major milestone for MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW), the publication of core teaching materials from virtually all MIT courses, 1,800 in total. November 28, 2007

U.K.'s Stern eyes responses to climate change - As difficult as adapting to climate change will be for rich countries, developing countries will be much more deeply affected, British government adviser Nicholas Stern told an MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) colloquium Monday, Nov. 19. November 28, 2007

MISTI launches exchange program with Israel - MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives will expand its portfolio of eight countries (China, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico and Spain) with the launch of a new internship and research exchange program with Israel. November 28, 2007

MIT senior wins Rhodes Scholarship - Melis Anahtar, an MIT senior who aspires to become a physician-scientist, has been awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University. Anahtar, of Bethesda, Md., is a mechanical engineering major with a minor in biomedical engineering. November 27, 2007

MIT and India to create health sciences institute - MIT and the government of India's Department of Biotechnology today launched a partnership that will result in the creation of a new Translational Health Science and Technology Institute in India. The new institute will include faculty from multiple disciplines and professions. November 19, 2007

MIT launches new global innovation initiative - MIT has announced a new initiative that will strengthen, connect and accelerate its innovation efforts around the globe. The International Innovation Initiative will facilitate future interactions between MIT researchers and the global venture capital community. November 19, 2007

Hockfield leads MIT India trip - MIT President Susan Hockfield is leading a delegation on a weeklong trip to India. Hockfield, the first sitting MIT president to go to the country, will convene a symposium Nov. 19 in New Delhi, "India and MIT: A Conversation About the Future," which will be webcast. November 14, 2007

Course promotes scientific approach in poverty fight - MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab is technically located on the edge of campus. But the real lab is a primary school in a sub-Saharan African town, a household kitchen in a home in rural India or an unemployment line in a suburb of Paris. November 7, 2007

MIT economist analyzes troop surge in Iraq - Michael Greenstone, 3M Professor of Economics, has applied statistical techniques he uses in measuring the economic impact of climate change to conduct the first quantitative analysis of the U.S. troop surge in Iraq. November 5, 2007

Hundreds attend iGem Jamboree - After a thought-provoking presentation on bioengineering a "bacterial assembly line," a team from Peking University won the grand prize "BioBrick" award in the fourth annual International Genetically Engineered Machine competition held Nov. 3-4 at MIT. November 5, 2007

Cask from the past - For the first time, researchers have identified DNA from inside ceramic containers in an ancient shipwreck on the seafloor, making it possible to determine what the ship's cargo was even though there was no visible trace of it. October 29, 2007

MIT to co-host Boston-India public health event - MIT will co-host a unique event Oct. 22-23 that brings together leading academics, innovators and key government stakeholders from Boston and India to discuss collaborative ways to meet the South Asian nation's public health challenges. October 17, 2007

International Development Fair slated for Oct. 5 - MIT's annual International Development Fair will take place on Friday, Oct. 5, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. in Lobby 13. October 3, 2007

Hosts needed for international students - The MIT Hosts to International Students Program helps new international students with their transition to life in the U.S. by pairing them with faculty, staff, alumni/ae and friends of MIT, including singles, families with children and retirees. September 26, 2007

MIT hosts conference on 'Emergent India' - Thirty experts on energy, education, industry, finance and urban design discussed India's economic growth, the foreseeable difficulties in sustaining and widening it, and its rising national energy needs in "Emergent India: An Engagement With MIT." September 25, 2007

Unique Middle East program rooted at MIT bears fruit - Three years ago, Wissam Jarjoui faced an uncertain future in an unstable place. The Palestinian student from East Jerusalem had never met an Israeli, and he hadn't even heard of MIT. Today, 17-year-old Jarjoui finds himself part of MIT's Class of 2011. September 19, 2007

New center to support aspiring entrepreneurs - The firm Legatum announced Aug. 17 a structured gift of $50 million to create a new center at MIT to support aspiring entrepreneurs from the developing world who have a strong commitment to development entrepreneurship. September 17, 2007

East meets West - In the 26 years since he first arrived at MIT as a freshman, V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai has earned four MIT degrees and started two multimillion dollar companies. September 17, 2007

Bustani seminars focus on Mideast - The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar at MIT will celebrate its 22nd anniversary with two lectures this fall on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs. September 12, 2007

iHouse opens its doors to global-minded students - The trajectory of innovation at MIT went outside the lab this year with the grand opening of the International House for Global Leadership. The new residence is geared toward students committed to international development and leadership. September 7, 2007

'Wiki City Rome' to draw a map like no other - Residents of Italy's capital will glimpse the future of urban mapmaking next month with the launch of "Wiki City Rome," a project developed at MIT that uses data from cellphones and other devices to illustrate the city's pulse in real time. August 30, 2007

Think, act globally, Samuels tells new students - Hundreds of members of MIT's Class of 2011 turned out Aug. 28 for their first official lecture, in which Professor Richard J. Samuels challenged them to seek out knowledge about societies that are remote from their own. August 29, 2007

Six from MIT win Fulbrights - Six MIT graduate students have been awarded Fulbright scholarships for the academic year 2007-2008. The recipients were selected by the U.S. international education program on the basis of their academic achievement and leadership potential. August 17, 2007

Innovators present solutions for developing world - Question: What do a pedal-powered grain mill, a Guatemalan bicycle mechanic, and MIT students have in common? Answer: The first International Development Design Summit, where participants have been busy solving problems in the developing world. August 7, 2007

Student team cooks up simple fuel recipe - A team of MIT students is working to bring affordable, environmentally friendly cooking fuel to developing countries. The technique, which grew out of an MIT class, offers a simple way to produce charcoal briquettes from organic waste material. August 1, 2007

Development Initiative wins Lemelson Grant - The Lemelson Foundation has awarded the MIT International Development Initiative (IDI) a grant of $650,000 to support opportunities for MIT students to work on sustainable solutions to problems faced by community groups in the developing world. July 18, 2007

Making a difference in the developing world - This weekend more than 50 people from 16 countries arrive at MIT for the first International Development Design Summit. They aim to create solutions to problems faced by those in developing countries--and send participants home with prototypes. July 13, 2007

'Digital water' walls this new MIT-designed building - MIT architects and engineers have designed a building featuring liquid curtains for walls, and it will be unveiled at next year's international exhibition in Spain. Its walls can be programmed to display images or messages and part to let people through. July 10, 2007

MIT International Review eyes global solutions - A pair of globally minded MIT students have launched a new journal that aims to hash out solutions to major world problems with the kind of cross-disciplinary zeal that is becoming commonplace at the Institute. July 5, 2007

MIT alumnus Miliband appointed Foreign Secretary - Newly appointed British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has named MIT alumnus and Kennedy scholar David Miliband as secretary of state for foreign and commonwealth affairs. He is the youngest foreign secretary in 30 years. June 29, 2007

Student blogs portray MIT's international projects - MIT students currently working internationally on sustainable solutions for health access, computer literacy and wheelchair accessibility are maintaining blogs to keep friends, family and the wider Institute community up-to-date on their experiences. June 27, 2007

MIT Press wins prestigious international award - Ellen W. Faran, Director of the MIT Press, has received the 2007 Grinzane-Cavour Award in recognition of MIT Press' contributions, both substantial and ethical, to the publication of scientific and humanistic titles. June 26, 2007

A warning against energy governance from Beijing - MIT doctoral student in political science Edward Cunningham warns U.S. policy analysts that placing Beijing in the driver's seat of China's energy governance will lead at best to ineffective U.S. policies and, at worst, to perilously inaccurate forecasting. June 25, 2007

MIT to host public meeting on technology export - MIT will host a public meeting of the Deemed Export Advisory Committee on Tuesday, June 19, at 9:30 a.m. in Room 10-250. June 15, 2007

Center for International Studies awards - Recent achievements by members of the MIT community. June 6, 2007

CMI students celebrate exchange program - More than 400 students have participated in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CMI), which began in 2000. The exchange is now firmly established as an integral part of MIT undergraduate programs, now administered by MIT Study Abroad. June 6, 2007

Summons wins Humboldt Award - Roger E. Summons, a professor in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, will receive a Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt-Stifung Foundation in Germany. June 1, 2007

New committee will support international activities - MIT has established a new International Advisory Committee to assess and support the institute's international activities, working to target regions where MIT should focus its international efforts and ensure such efforts serve MIT's core mission. May 25, 2007

MIT-led team ID's malaria-inducing protein - An international team of researchers led by an MIT professor has demonstrated how a key protein in the malaria-inducing parasite Plasmodium falciparum infects red blood cells, causing them to lose their ability to flow through tiny blood vessels. May 21, 2007

Queen Rania of Jordan tours campus - MIT welcomed Her Majesty Queen Rania of Jordan to campus on Friday, May 4. The queen is renowned for her charitable work in areas of health, microfinance, economic development and education, and as a strong advocate for the empowerment of women. May 11, 2007

BIO Convention draws worldwide participants - Dato' Sri Mohd Najib Tun Abdul Razak, deputy prime minister of Malaysia, was among the guests at a reception hosted by President Susan Hockfield to welcome participants to the 2007 BIO International Convention held in Boston May 6-9. May 11, 2007

Aero/astro alum wins Annenberg fellowship - The prestigious Annenberg Fellowship has been awarded for the first time to an MIT graduate, Katonio A. Butler. Butler will spend a year at Eton College, where he will act as an American "ambassador" to the 1,300 students, aged 13 to 18. May 8, 2007

Institute serves up groundbreaking energy reports - MIT energy reports are making a difference, providing both Congress and the executive branch with detailed recommendations to shape and influence policy debate and responses to the weighty questions surrounding energy supply. May 8, 2007

Kenyan center supports literacy, development - Aisha Walcott, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, recently traveled to Laare, Kenya, as a representative of the Imara outreach program, which was funded by a grant from the MIT Public Service Center. May 2, 2007

A SWIFT start in technology for Saudi women - Nada Hashmi, a graduate student in system design and management at MIT, had spent years in the U.S. earning degrees in computer science and math. But on her return to her native Saudi Arabia, she found "technology is just catching up." May 2, 2007

Broad hosts Iraq documentary screening - "No End in Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq," a film directed by Charles Ferguson, visiting scholar at MIT's Center for International Studies, will be screened for the public in the auditorium of the Broad Institute on Wednesday, May 2, at 6 p.m. April 27, 2007

MIT and Harvard to expand scholarship program - MIT and Harvard announced today that they plan to expand the Kennedy Scholarship program. The announcement was made during celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the program, established to honor President John F. Kennedy. April 13, 2007

MIT-Cyprus program will focus on energy, more - Energy, environment and water are the focus of a new joint program between MIT and Cyprus. The initiative will promote scientific research and education at a new university on the island nation, a crossroad for millennia of commerce, civilizations and cultures. April 6, 2007

Iceland's leaders meet MIT on energy - The president of Iceland, Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, will be at MIT Wednesday, April 4, to discuss geothermal energy, climate change and other energy topics with MIT professors. April 2, 2007

Diseases to be focus of Singapore-MIT alliance - Infectious diseases will be the focus of the first research group through the proposed Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Center, as announced by the Singaporean National Research Foundation, which will sponsor the center. March 30, 2007

Lack of fuel may limit U.S. nuclear power expansion - Limited supplies of fuel for nuclear power plants may thwart the renewed and growing interest in nuclear energy in the United States and other nations, says Thomas Neff, an MIT expert on the industry. March 21, 2007

Panel explores links among faith, academia - A forum on the links between faith and development in the Third World became a frank discussion on whether MIT students and faculty could--or should--link their faith to their careers as scientists and educators. March 7, 2007

PSC grants expand MIT's global reach - Undergraduate and graduate students who work in developing regions outside the United States over Independent Activities Period or over the summer are eligible to receive grants for up to $1,000 from the Public Service Center (PSC). March 7, 2007

Chancellor announces launch of Global MIT site - Global MIT, a web site and database that will enable users inside and outside the Institute community to learn about the full range of MIT's international engagement, has been launched, Chancellor Phillip L. Clay announced. March 7, 2007

'Just Jerusalem' competition focuses on 2050 - Can MIT help engineer a break with history in Jerusalem? The steering committee of Jerusalem 2050, a joint initiative of MIT's Center for International Studies and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, hopes that the answer is yes. March 6, 2007

Co-engineers share designs on clean water - An MIT engineer working toward clean drinking water in Nepal describes in a recent issue of the Journal of International Development how people from developed and developing countries can work together to solve key humanitarian problems. March 5, 2007

Faculty discuss widening international programs - A faculty committee looking into ways to expand MIT students' access to cross-cultural and international experiences recommended doubling existing opportunities from around 300 to 600 by the 2008-2009 academic year. February 28, 2007

MIT, ADFEC sign cooperative agreement - MIT and the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company (ADFEC) today announced the signing of a cooperative agreement preparing the way for MIT's Technology and Development Program to help develop the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology. February 26, 2007

From Russia with--what? Love? Spite? - The question--as posed in the title of the Independent Activities Period seminar--was "Putin's Russia: Friend or Foe?" The answer--as seminar participants discovered on Jan. 17--may depend on the definitions of "friend" and "foe." January 23, 2007

International students advise fellow travelers - MIT Sloan students from around the world offer the Institute community their thoughts on what a visitor may find in their country of origin, and in return, what they learned about living, working and studying in the United States. December 29, 2006

Austrian honor for Zhang - Shuguang Zhang, associate director of MIT's Center for Biomedical Engineering, recently received Austria's 2006 Wilhelm Exner Medal for outstanding contributions to science and technology from the president of Austria, Heinz Fischer. December 8, 2006

Experts available to discuss international issues - MIT faculty with expertise on national security and international issues are available for comment to members of the media. December 6, 2006

MIT political scientists list key points on Iraq - The Iraq Study Group, headed by former Secretary of State James A. Baker, is scheduled to issue its report Dec. 6. Four MIT foreign policy experts have summarized key points they believe the U.S. should consider in addressing the Iraq situation. December 6, 2006

Economist portrays a new Democratic moment - All eyes may be on Iraq right now. But Alice Amsden, an MIT professor of economy, clearly hopes the new Congress will move to foster the kind of economic growth in the developing world that will fight terrorism by depriving it of oxygen. November 30, 2006

Team moves toward silent, eco-friendly plane - MIT and Cambridge University researchers will unveil the conceptual design for a silent, environmentally friendly passenger plane at a press conference Monday, Nov. 6, at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. November 6, 2006

MIT, Southampton to collaborate on web research - MIT and the University of Southampton today announced the launch of a long-term research collaboration that aims to produce the fundamental scientific advances necessary to guide the future design and use of the World Wide Web. November 2, 2006

Colombian leadership dialogue focuses on innovation - On Tuesday, Oct. 31, the Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies (SPURS) in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) at MIT begins a four-day conference, "Colombian Leadership Dialogue: The Renewal of Research Universities." October 27, 2006

Expert discusses U.S.-India nuclear pact - MIT researcher associate Subrata Ghoshroy, an expert on the controversial United States-India "civilian nuclear cooperation" agreement, comments on international nuclear proliferation issues, U.S. policy and anti-missile shield systems. October 20, 2006

Initiative to boost engineering excellence in Portugal - MIT and the Portuguese officials today announced plans to enter into a collaboration to expand research and education in engineering and management across many of Portugal's top national universities. October 11, 2006

'Reporters' Notebook' paints bleak scene in Iraq - Questions about the war in Iraq, posed by MIT visiting scholar Barbara K. Bodine, jumpstarted a conversation between two prominent journalists appearing in an Oct. 3 panel titled "Reporters' Notebook: The US in Iraq," held at MIT. October 10, 2006

Experts available to discuss nuclear weapons - MIT researchers with expertise on nuclear weapons are available for comment to members of the media. October 10, 2006

Singapore collaboration aims to spur gaming sector - MIT and the Singapore Media Development Authority have announced an agreement to establish the Singapore-MIT International Game Lab. October 9, 2006

Caribbean Club conference calls for creative action - Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad and Tobago will be on the MIT campus Oct. 7 to give the keynote address of the first MIT Caribbean Students Conference. The speech will be followed by a series of workshops on issues facing the Caribbean today. October 6, 2006

Fair showcases international development opportunities Sept. 29 - Roughly 50 departments, programs and student groups will highlight their international work at the fifth annual International Development Fair on Sept. 29 in Lobby 10 from 1-3 p.m. September 28, 2006

International events highlight MISTI Week - Chinese lions, Mexican dance and Indian yoga are all in the lineup for MISTI Week, a showcase of MIT's international program offerings that kicks off Sept. 18. September 13, 2006

MIT maps Rome at Venice Biennale - Real Time Rome, a pioneering MIT project that promises to usher in a new era of urban mapmaking, will have its worldwide debut at the Venice Biennale, the prestigious biannual exhibition of contemporary art, from Sept. 10 to Nov. 19. September 5, 2006

MIT to support creation of international program at Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) today announced the formation of an innovative, dual-degree graduate program combining engineering and management that is modeled after a similar program at MIT that has been in existence for 18 years. August 29, 2006

Astronomers revise planet definition - The "United Nations" of astronomers has announced a new definition of what a planet is, slightly revising the description preferred by an international panel including an MIT professor that was tasked with the challenge. August 24, 2006

MIT-Beijing design studio plans for urban future - For five weeks this summer, a group of 20 MIT graduate students in architecture, planning and real estate joined with a dozen graduate students from Beijing's Tsinghua University to work together on issues of urban design and development. August 18, 2006

Deng seeks peace in Sudanese war of identities - Francis Deng, a former Sudanese ambassador to the U.S. and now a visiting fellow at MIT, will conduct research and help to raise awareness about Sudan, a country wracked by genocidal violence that is rooted, he believes, in perceptions of identity. August 17, 2006

Astronomers proclaim Pluto is a planet - Yes, Virginia, Pluto is a planet. And it's about to be joined by several more, thanks to a new definition of the word "planet" announced today by world astronomers, including Richard Binzel, an MIT professor of planetary science. August 16, 2006

GEM4 researchers examine facets of diseases - What happens when you bring together dozens of international researchers and set them to work studying human health and disease? You get GEM4, a one-year-old interdisciplinary collaboration that takes on broad medical challenges. August 16, 2006

Sun and new fuels power student vehicles - Students from 21 universities around the world gathered at MIT this summer to design and build commuter vehicles that exploit human power, bio-fuels, solar technologies and fuel cells to travel at least 500 miles per gallon of fuel. August 14, 2006

Clock in the rock: Scientists measure Earth's history - MIT geologist Sam Bowring believes that it may be possible to more precisely correlate the extinction of dinosaurs 66 million years ago with events such as the massive asteroid that slammed into Earth at about the same time. August 14, 2006

Three at MIT conceive cell-shaped building - An innovative cell-shaped building will house a new biomedical research institute in Chengdu, China, thanks to an unusual crossdisciplinary collaboration between a world-renowned scientist at MIT and two former MIT students. July 28, 2006

MIT team plans 8,000-mile adventure - This month, the TechNomads -- a four-person team of MIT students and recent graduates -- will begin a trek around a quarter of the world, visiting 14 countries in a car smaller than a Geo Metro, all in the name of charity. July 20, 2006

MEET to graduate first class in Jerusalem - The first class of Israeli and Palestinian high school students enrolled in Middle East Education Through Technology (MEET), an MIT-led nonprofit and nonpolitical grassroots summer program, will graduate this year in Jerusalem. July 11, 2006

MIT unveils major Singapore research center - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National Research Foundation of Singapore today announced plans to establish a major new research center in Singapore in 2007. July 7, 2006

MISTI interns fan out across globe - More than 200 MIT students are spending this summer on internships organized by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, or MISTI program. This year, MISTI has organized internships in 10 countries. July 5, 2006

Telescope to probe early universe, more - A novel telescope that will aid the understanding of the early universe is moving closer to full-scale construction thanks to a $4.9 million award from the National Science Foundation to a U.S. consortium led by MIT. July 5, 2006

Ashdown gets a kick out of World Cup - World Cup fever has gripped MIT's Ashdown House. Since June 9, the residence hall on the corner of Memorial Drive and Massachusetts Avenue has offered up snacks and a huge movie-screen-sized television to World Cup fanatics. June 23, 2006

Lemelson program revamps prizes to inspire inventors - The Lemelson-MIT Program announced this week that it will refocus the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize, the largest cash prize given in the United States for invention, to help bring inventions from younger, midcareer researchers into use. June 22, 2006

Student summit set on vehicle design - Seventy-three students from 21 universities around the world will gather at MIT from June 13-Aug. 13 to design and build between five and 10 commuter vehicles that travel at least 500 miles per gallon of fuel. June 14, 2006

MISTI helps bring iLabs to China - On Tuesday, June 13, students will join MIT faculty at the first Asian MIT-iCampus Conference in Beijing, an unprecedented effort to introduce China's top universities to iLabs, MIT's free online remote laboratory initiative. June 12, 2006

Center for International Studies awards - 2006 Awards listings. June 7, 2006

Kenyan grad shares what he's learned - Graduating senior Eric Mibuari, hoping to share the fruits of his "challenging and rewarding" years at MIT, has started a community computer center in Laare, Kenya, the town where he grew up. June 7, 2006

Technology Day will address 'global challenges' - MIT alumni will return to campus in record numbers this weekend -- more than 3,275 alumni and guests are registered for Tech Reunions, which is gathering classes ending in 6 and 1. June 7, 2006

Students win grant for Lesotho solar generator - Two MIT graduate students in civil and environmental engineering have won a 2006 World Bank Development Marketplace grant to develop a solar micro-generator that would provide affordable energy to Lesotho. June 5, 2006

Comfortable buildings -- hold the air conditioning - Operating commercial buildings consumes a sixth of all the energy used in the Western world. Getting rid of air conditioning could help, so MIT researchers are making it easier to design buildings that cool occupants with natural breezes. June 2, 2006

Students float Caribbean Museum Boat - Many Caribbean islands can only dream about having their own science and technology museum. So, MIT senior Solomon Hsiang is hoping they may eventually be able to share one. May 24, 2006

Technology conference focuses on Lebanon - The International Conference on Lebanese Technology Development (TECHLEB 06) will be held at MIT on Saturday, May 20, and Sunday, May 21. May 17, 2006

Infotech program aids African students - Each summer for the past six years, the MIT Africa Internet Technology Initiative (AITI) has sent MIT students, both graduate and undergraduate, to several countries in Africa. Working in teams of four, the students teach courses computer programming courses. May 17, 2006

Memoir exposes perils of Soviet science - It is unlikely that there are many MIT professors who have climbed out of windows to escape a "friendly" lunch with a team of KGB agents, but Loren Graham is one of them. May 9, 2006

Professor Posen offers thoughts on nuclear Iran - In a February 2006 essay titled "We Can Live With a Nuclear Iran," Barry Posen, a political science professor at MIT, acknowledges that each time a new nuclear weapons state emerges, "we rightly suspect the world has grown more dangerous." May 4, 2006

MISTI awards fellowships - The MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) program announced the recipients of the 2006 Anthony Sun Fellowship Awards at its annual Faculty Club gala on Wednesday, April 26. May 3, 2006

Swiss, MIT choirs plan academic, harmonic convergence - Nearly 150 singers will take the stage April 28 at Kresge Auditorium as part of the International Choir Exchange between the MIT Concert Choir and the University Choir of Lausanne, Switzerland. On April 26, the group will present a program of student research from the two schools. April 21, 2006

OpenCourseWare marks 5 years - Five years ago today, in an unprecedented step toward making knowledge accessible worldwide, MIT announced it would make the materials for nearly all of its courses available on the Internet. April 4, 2006

Grad student judges walkability of cities - Developing cities need to do more to address the needs of pedestrians, according to MIT graduate student Holly Krambeck, who is working on a walkability ranking system for cities. March 31, 2006

Building a better wheelchair - A graduate student in mechanical engineering spent last summer assessing wheelchair technology and availability in Tanzania -- a country where only 3 percent of those who need a wheelchair can get one. March 21, 2006

Sophomore's project aids Sri Lankan girls' home - Thanks to a program started by MIT sophomore Alia Whitney-Johnson, 18 Sri Lankan child-mothers living in a home for victims of rape or incest are coming out of their shells and earning money for their futures through art. March 15, 2006

G-Lab students get rewarding experiences - MIT graduate student Christopher Lowell, participating in the Sloan School of Management's G-Lab program, combined travel and an internship in the mining industry in Rwanda to shape what he called one of the most important experiences of his life. March 15, 2006

Young inventors to gather at MIT - MIT's Public Service Center will host the first United States-based Young Inventors Inventing the Future Conference on March 4. February 24, 2006

Program offers students home away from home - The MIT Hosts to International Students program helps smooth the way for students from other countries adjusting to life in the United States -- and provides new friendships and cultural awareness for students and hosts alike. February 24, 2006

Ambassadorial visit - A full crowd packed Bartos Theater on Thursday, Feb. 16, to hear Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, discuss 'Saudi Arabia and the Global Community.' February 21, 2006

MIT scientist shares AAAS honor for cooperation - MIT's Paul J. Cefola is one of seven members of a Russian and American team awarded the 2005 International Scientific Cooperation Award by the world's largest general scientific society. February 17, 2006

Show takes 'Pulse' of African influences - "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland," a show that celebrates Africa and African-American culture, will be held Saturday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in Kresge Auditorium. February 15, 2006

Ambassador from Saudi Arabia set to give talk - Prince Turki Al-Faisal, Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, will present a talk, "Saudi Arabia and the Global Community," at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 16, in Bartos Theater. February 8, 2006

On plane to Spain - The first five students to participate in the new MIT-Madrid Undergraduate Program sponsored by the Study Abroad Office left for Spain on Sunday, Feb. 5, to begin their semester overseas. February 8, 2006

Professor sizes up competition in new book - American companies will find the avenues to success in the global economy both wider and less dependent on cheap labor than media reports suggest, according to a new book by Professor Suzanne Berger and MIT colleagues. February 8, 2006

Hibur connects MIT with Israeli university - In Hebrew, the word "Hibur" means connection -- an appropriate name for a program started by students last year to create a connection between MIT and the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. February 8, 2006

Robot photographs ancient Greek shipwreck - Sometime in the fourth century B.C., a Greek merchant ship sank in the eastern Aegean Sea. Filled with ceramic jars of wine and olive oil, it might never have divulged its clues to ancient Greek culture, except for a research team including scientists from MIT. February 2, 2006

IAP: Lab puts poverty programs to the test - The executive director of MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab will discuss how scientific methods are being used to measure the impact of poverty reduction policies at an IAP session to be held Feb. 1. January 31, 2006

IAP: Class targets landmine removal - Andrew Heafitz, winner of the 2002 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Inventiveness, is challenging students to clean up the cruelest litter of war in two back-to-back IAP sessions on Wednesday, Jan. 18, in the Edgerton Center. January 17, 2006

Hockfield attends University Presidents Summit - MIT President Susan Hockfield met Jan. 5 and 6 with government and higher education leaders from around the nation in Washington, D.C. to discuss U.S. higher education in the global arena. January 6, 2006

Wodiczko honored by exhibits in Poland - Krzysztof Wodiczko, professor of visual arts at MIT, returned recently to Poland in conjunction with two exhibitions of his work, one in Krakow and the other in Warsaw. December 21, 2005

Contest spurs Filipino entrepreneurs - "Uncommon Solutions to Common Problems," a talk aimed at transforming the Filipino business climate, highlighted the work that Neil Ruiz and a dedicated team of graduate students have done in the past year with the Philippine Emerging Startups Open (PESO). December 14, 2005

Urban studies shines in series - Innovative design practices and recent research in urban security issues were highlighted in a series of talks presented to midcareer international students by the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. December 14, 2005

2.009 students sprout ideas for agriculture - An agricultural theme unites the six alpha prototypes that will be presented at this year's final session of Course 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, to be held on Monday, Dec. 12. December 7, 2005

OCW draws attention at world summit - At the World Summit on the Information Society this week in Tunis, Tunisia, MIT OpenCourseWare co-hosted a half-day event with the United Nations University, "Widening Access to Knowledge Through Open Sharing: The Growing OpenCourseWare Movement." November 16, 2005

Tech Museum honors OCW - For its work using technology to improve the lives of people around the world, MIT OpenCourseWare was honored with a Tech Museum Award on Nov. 9. November 16, 2005

Annan presents prototype $100 laptop - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, joined by MIT Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte at the World Summit on the Information Society, unveiled the first working prototype of the $100 laptop, the central project of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child association. November 16, 2005

Nobelist calls for cooperation on nuclear energy - A multinational approach to producing nuclear energy and storing waste is key to solving many of the problems that beset this energy source, said Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the IAEA, who spoke at MIT Nov. 3. November 4, 2005

Nobel Peace Prize winner to speak Nov. 3 - The 2005 Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Mohamed ElBaradei, will give this year's David J. Rose Lecture on Nuclear Technology at MIT, to be held Thursday, Nov. 3, at 3:30 p.m. in Stata's Kirsch Auditorium. November 2, 2005

Students hold vigil for earthquake victims - Eighty MIT students stood together on the steps of the Student Center on Thursday, Oct. 27 in a candlelight vigil to raise money for the victims of the Oct. 8 earthquake that devastated parts of Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. October 28, 2005

Egyptian ambassador visits campus - Egypt's ambassador to the United States spoke at MIT on Oct. 18 in an event sponsored by the MIT Arab Students' Organization. October 20, 2005

CDO graduate program debuts - MIT's new S.M. graduate program in Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO) has its first 17 students this semester. There are five students now on campus and 12 based in Singapore who will be at MIT for the spring semester. October 17, 2005

GEM4 shines in launch event - In a launch Oct. 12 worthy of its sparkling acronym, the Global Enterprise for Micro-Mechanics and Molecular Medicine, or GEM4, brought to MIT people from 12 time zones away, many university presidents, leaders of government, and Thai royalty. October 13, 2005

Initiative will address global medical challenges - A pioneering international collaboration among premier researchers and world-class institutions designed to bring the advances of engineering, science and nanotechnology to bear on major medical and public health issues launches Oct. 12 at MIT. October 12, 2005

Alumnus backs Poverty Action Lab - MIT announced Oct. 12 that alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel has committed a substantial gift in support of the Poverty Action Lab in the Department of Economics. October 12, 2005

$100 laptop idea taking off - Professor Nicholas Negroponte's plan to offer $100, hand-crank laptop computers to children in developing countries has drawn interest from several foreign leaders as well as Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney. October 5, 2005

Students hone craft of aiding developing countries - Raja Bobbili, a junior in electrical engineering and former D-Lab student, manned the crafts sale in Lobby 10 on Sept. 29 as part of MIT's International Development Forum. October 4, 2005

International Development Forum set - MIT students and other members of the MIT community interested in international development are invited to the fourth annual International Development Forum and Fair. September 28, 2005

MISTI plans events - MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) kicks off a weeklong series of events with a full day of exotic cuisine and cultural fun in Lobby 10 on Tuesday, Sept. 20. September 14, 2005

Economist to discuss ending poverty Sept. 14 - Muhammad Yunus, the Bangladeshi economist who pioneered the microcredit movement, will deliver a talk titled "Ending Global Poverty" on Wednesday, Sept. 14, in Kirsch Auditorium at the Stata Center. September 13, 2005

MIT security seminar turns 20 - An MIT program based in Washington, D.C., that once hosted Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and whose overall aim is to enhance critical thinking about politics, economics and foreign policy, celebrated its 20th anniversary at a gala in the capital on Sept. 12. September 13, 2005

MIT program bridges Mideast divide - Much has been said about the political, religious and historical rifts that divide Israelis from Palestinians, but two MIT students have found something young people from these groups have in common: an interest in technology. August 16, 2005

MIT to celebrate partnership south of the border - MIT-Mexico, an internship and exchange program launched in spring 2004 by the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives, will celebrate its first anniversary on July 19 with a gala in Mexico City. July 14, 2005

Wampler plans African AIDS clinics - An MIT architecture professor has completed a design prototype to build at least 20 pediatric AIDS care centers in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia. June 8, 2005

Center for International Studies awards - 2005 awards listings. June 1, 2005

Foreign scholarships - 2005 awards listings. June 1, 2005

MISTI spans the globe - This summer, the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) will again be sending students abroad to get hands-on experience in how science is created and applied worldwide. June 1, 2005

MIT team designs tsunami-resistant houses - Using high-tech engineering principles, an MIT/Harvard team has developed a low-tech solution to the problem of how to build homes in tsunami-prone areas. May 26, 2005

Fact-finding trip to Mozambique planned - Many people in Mozambique still lack access to clean water and basic sanitation, but a group of MIT students is working hard to change all that. May 16, 2005

MIT, Kuwait foundation form environmental center - The Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences and MIT today announced the creation of a research-and-education center devoted to progress on key environmental, hydrologic and energy resource goals. May 12, 2005

Conference slated on forced labor - A former child slave, an anti-slavery activist, and the U.S. deputy secretary of labor will join authors and globalization specialists in two debates at MIT about modern-day slavery on Saturday, May 14. May 10, 2005

MIT builds bridge to Milan - MIT has entered into a partnership with Milan Politecnico, Italy's top engineering school, to foster collaboration between the two schools in the fields of materials science, bioengineering and mechanical engineering. April 25, 2005

Students tackle flooding in Honduras - Eight MIT students spent spring break 2005 in Tocoa, Honduras, working on an automated flood early warning system and visiting towns that had been damaged by flash flooding in October 1998. April 25, 2005

Leaders meet to tackle energy woes - Some 250 leaders from academia, industry, government and nongovernment organizations addressed worldwide sustainable-development challenges at a recent meeting of the Alliance for Global Sustainability held at MIT. April 4, 2005

African students get web link to MIT labs - Students in Uganda, Tanzania and Nigeria can now perform sophisticated engineering and science experiments at MIT--without ever getting on a plane. March 21, 2005

Iraq and post-war Japan differ, historian asserts - Those who forget the past may be doomed to repeat it, but those who try to rebuild Iraq based on past models are doomed to frustration, according to an MIT historian and others specializing in conditions in Japan and in Europe following the Second World War. March 16, 2005

Buddhists help rebuild Sri Lanka - Sri Lankan families left homeless by the tsunami could find themselves living in an enclave of MIT-designed housing if the efforts of MIT's Buddhist chaplain and an urban studies researcher are successful. March 15, 2005

Faculty from Africa learn from Sloan - Building upon the success of a program that has brought more than 100 professors from China to Cambridge, the MIT Sloan School is now offering similar opportunities to faculty from other nations. March 9, 2005

Letters from Sri Lanka - MIT professor Charles Harvey is keeping a log of a trip he is taking with colleagues to research the effect of December's tsunami on drinking wells in Sri Lanka. February 22, 2005

Tsunami's impact a concern for MIT - The Indian Ocean tsunami's impact on Sri Lanka's drinking water and soil is the focus of an expedition this week by an MIT professor and colleagues from Florida and the Colorado School of Mines. February 14, 2005

European job-seeking made local - Job seekers came to MIT from as far away as Illinois and Quebec last weekend for the chance to interview with representatives of 43 international firms at MIT's European Career Fair, the only fair of its kind in the U.S. February 4, 2005

MIT postdoc reports on relief work in Sri Lanka - Postdoctoral associate Sanith Wijesinghe traveled to his homeland of Sri Lanka to help with post-tsunami relief efforts, and reports back on his findings. February 1, 2005

Media Lab Europe closes its doors - The Board of directors of Media Lab Europe announced on Friday, Jan. 14 that the lab would be closing Feb. 1 due to a shortfall in financing. January 20, 2005

Irrigation could boost Chinese food production - Initial findings by an MIT team evaluating how water and land limitations affect food production in China suggest that the country should be able to raise enough food to feed its growing population if it expands irrigation. January 20, 2005

Collective efforts lift us all to the starry heights - President Vest's opinion piece for the Times Higher Education Supplement. December 1, 2004

Magnet Lab joins spintronics program - The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and MIT's Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory have launched a 10-year program in spintronics. November 23, 2004

Boat brings hope to Indian villagers - Two MIT researchers have joined forces with a humanitarian effort half a world away to help bring relief to a region of India routinely flooded by monsoonal rains each year. November 17, 2004

Award sends Alter to the Himalayas - Stephen Alter has been awarded a 2004-2005 Fulbright grant to research folktales from the Himalayas from January to October 2005. November 17, 2004

Students work to engineer solutions in Ghana - Seven engineering students from schools on three continents converged in Ghana last summer to help identify some of the persistent problems plaguing its rural areas and bring the problems to the attention of engineers. November 5, 2004

Tirman named as CIS executive director - John Tirman, a political scientist who has written widely on foreign policy, politics and human rights, has been named executive director of the MIT Center for International Studies (CIS). November 3, 2004

Ramphele explains migrants' problems - Mamphela Ramphele, co-chair of the U.N. Commission on Global Migration, portrayed the policy incoherence and hypocrisy now endangering the 200 million people who live outside their countries of origin. October 8, 2004

Bonhomme discusses Haiti's instability - Myrtho Bonhomme, special advisor to the Prime Minister of Haiti, paid a visit to MIT's Wong Auditorium to reflect on the history of a country beset by upheaval. October 1, 2004

DeFrantz taps across the water - MIT dancers in tap shoes and street clothes recently transformed a campus classroom into an international conversation as they exchanged performances and instruction with a group of dancers in Singapore via video conference. September 29, 2004

Essigmann receives royal honor - Her Royal Highness Princess Chulabhorn of Thailand recently presented MIT Professor John M. Essigmann with an award recognizing his "sustained support for the advancement of science in developing countries and his selfless dedication to teaching and research." September 13, 2004

Bridging the communications gap - Communications research has been partitioned from the industry it serves--until now. A Cambridge-MIT Institute initiative aims to bridge that gap by bringing together the different disciplines. June 28, 2004

MIT impresses China TV crew - A camera crew from China Central Television recently taped interviews with more than two dozen MIT researchers, students and administrators and came away even more impressed with the Institute than when they arrived. May 5, 2004

OpenCourseWare spreading - OpenCourseWare (OCW) now offers the curriculum and faculty course materials from 701 MIT courses on the web--about one-third of the way toward its goal of 2,000 courses by 2008. May 5, 2004

OCW spreading worldwide - When MIT's OpenCourseWare was first announced four years ago, it was welcomed by the world, but no one was quite sure how far it would reach. The answer, according to a new report: just about everywhere. May 5, 2004

CMI drug developments - The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) has launched a project to tackle the bottlenecks that slow development of new drugs. April 7, 2004

'Between the Lines' - Parmesh Shahani has been working on "Between the Lines: Negotiating South Asian LGBT Identity," a three-day conference that will take place at MIT from April 1-3. March 31, 2004

CMI launches 'pervasive computing' initiative - The Cambridge-MIT Institute has launched the Pervasive Computing Community to explore the challenges of a world where computers are burgeoning in numbers and influence. March 31, 2004

'Pervasive computing' - The Cambridge-MIT Institute has launched the Pervasive Computing Community to explore the challenges of a world where computers are burgeoning in numbers. March 26, 2004

Distance learning planned - The MIT LINC will host its second symposium and workshop, "Creating and Sustaining Learning Communities," on March 23-26 at the Hotel@MIT in Cambridge. March 17, 2004

Filmmaker presents films - Pooja Kaul, a young writer and filmmaker from New Delhi whose experimental style explores the boundaries between fact and fiction, will screen two short films today. March 10, 2004

Syrian ambassador visits - Dr. Imad Moustapha, Syria's ambassador to the United States, made a brief visit to campus on March 2, hosted by the MIT Arab Student Organization. March 10, 2004

MIT filter cleans water - An easy-to-use, inexpensive filter developed by MIT researchers for treating contaminated drinking water will be installed in 25 Nepalese villages this year. March 9, 2004

Funding helps Nepal water project - This story is adapted from an article by Debbie Levey that was first published in "Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT" (Vol. 17, No. 4). March 3, 2004

U.S. electoral system would work well for Iraq, physicist says - Winning the World Series has something in common with winning a presidential election, and the same method of selecting a winner will also work for Iraq, says MIT physicist Alan Natapoff. February 17, 2004

Largest book is published - Michael Hawley of the MIT Media Lab will make publishing history today with the release of the largest book ever published, as certified by Guinness World Records™. December 15, 2003

Fee for student visa - New international students at MIT may have to pay an additional $100 to the U.S. government when making their visa application. November 5, 2003

MIT Solar team shines in Australia - The MIT Solar Electric Vehicle team finished third in the seventh 3,000-kilometer World Solar Challenge open class race from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia. October 29, 2003

MIT to collaborate on reactor - Professor Andrew Kadak is leading the MIT half of a collaboration with Tsinghua University in Beijing to develop a pebble-bed nuclear reactor. October 22, 2003

MIT, Tsinghua collaborate - Researchers at MIT and Tsinghua University in Beijing will collaborate on the development of a pebble-bed nuclear reactor. October 22, 2003

America as empire debated - Has America become a military and economic empire? Four commentators will discuss this question. October 8, 2003

Bustani seminars focus on Mideast - Ambassador Charles Dunbar, the Warburg Professor in International Relations at Simmons College, will speak on "Unpopular Muslim-World Governments: Can Washington Live With (or Without) Them?" September 24, 2003

USA 101 - New international students humorously offered their impressions of the USA and MIT during a recent campus orientation. August 27, 2003

Project Prakash sheds light - Pawan Sinha, assistant professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, traveled to India this summer as part of Project Prakash ("light" in Sanskrit). August 27, 2003

Sight unseen - Project Prakash is Sinha's ambitious scientific and humanitarian effort to look at how individuals who are born blind and then gain some vision perceive objects and faces. August 25, 2003

Dream village rising in wake of quake - The dream of a safe new Turkish community, hatched in the wake of an earthquake that killed at least 15,000 and destroyed dozens of towns and villages, is becoming a reality for 50 displaced families this summer. July 22, 2003

Film depicts 'cyclos' - Film by video artist Jun Nguyen Hatsushiba on view at the List Visual Arts Center is inspired by the plight of Vietnamese drivers of cyclos. May 21, 2003

Meeting India's president - About 25 M.B.A. students met with President Abdul Kalam during a trip to India that was part of a course taught by Amar Gupta, co-director of PROFIT. May 21, 2003

China internship moratorium - Twenty-seven MIT students who planned to spend the summer doing internships in China and Singapore are scrambling to come up with alternatives. April 30, 2003

New travel policy requires informed decisions - MIT has announced a new "travel risk policy" requiring students, faculty and staff to increase their awareness of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), war and terrorism are prevalent. April 30, 2003

MIT helps ID tree that cures diseases - Genetic tools developed by MIT and Malaysian researchers will help identify and preserve a Southeast Asian tree containing a substance that inhibits viruses and boosts fertility. April 3, 2003

Air pollution in Mexico City - An international team is working to help Mexican policy-makers find ways to reduce Mexico City's severe and persistent air pollution. April 2, 2003

SMA expands grad program - NUS, NTU and MIT signed a memorandum of understanding last week to take the Singapore-MIT Alliance to the next level of science graduate education. April 2, 2003

Mexico City's air pollution focus of research - An international team led by an MIT research scientist and her husband, an MIT Nobel laureate, is working to help Mexican policy-makers find ways to reduce Mexico City's severe and persistent air pollution. March 26, 2003

Graduate distance education program expanded - NUS, NTU and MIT signed a Memorandum of Understanding Monday to take the Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA) to the next level of graduate education and research in science and engineering. March 26, 2003

MIT won't shut down - With war in Iraq imminent, MIT plans to remain open and operational during all levels of homeland security alert. March 19, 2003

Scholars in France program - Seven MIT undergraduates embarked on a 17-day IAP exploration of Paris through the new January Scholars in France program. March 12, 2003

Concept car revs up interest - Fifteen students enrolled in the IAP subject "Solutions for Mobility in the 21st Century" visited a Lufthansa factory discussed cars of the future. March 12, 2003

SEVIS complicates - The federal government's new tracking system for international students and scholars has slowed the speed at which MIT can bring people to campus from other countries. February 26, 2003

Focus on N. Korea urged - US faces a more urgent threat from proliferation of weapons by North Korea than by Iraq, a former U.S. ambassador-at-large warned a crowd in Wong Auditorium. February 12, 2003

Briefly - UPOP preps engineering interns; DSpace diversifies. February 5, 2003

Grants in international fields - Grants are available through CIS for advanced doctoral students working in close collaboration with a faculty member on any international aspect of energy, environment and international affairs. December 18, 2002

Sight for poor eyes - A Media Lab graduate student has invented a machine to make low-cost prescription eyeglass lenses for people in the developing world who can't afford them now. December 17, 2002

Team works toward energy-efficient Chinese homes - Researchers demonstrated that a group of energy-efficient low-rise buildings could provide the same living conditions as energy-consuming high-rise structures. December 11, 2002

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Arsenic linked to crop irrigation - Naturally occurring arsenic in the water drawn from family wells - appears to have been released through a process involving crop irrigation. December 4, 2002

MISTI ambassadors selected - Seventeen undergraduate and graduate students have been selected to serve as ambassadors for the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) for 2002-03. December 4, 2002

Turkish flavor to Sloan council - The newest member of the Sloan School Dean's Advisory Council - and the first from Turkey - hopes to use his new post to benefit both the school and his country. December 4, 2002

Arsenic in Bangladesh may be linked to crop irrigation - Naturally occurring arsenic in the water drawn from family wells in the southern part of Bangladesh appears to have been released through a process involving crop irrigation, says an MIT-led research team. November 21, 2002

Foreign students speak out - The head of the American Civil Liberties Union pleaded with international students at MIT to "speak out lawfully" against federal legislation that erodes their rights. October 30, 2002

Aftermath of war chaotic - A military invasion of Iraq will be difficult and divisive enough, but U.S. policy-makers face far more daunting challenges after the shooting stops and Saddam Hussein is gone. October 30, 2002

Grants available through CIS - The Center for International Studies invites applications for Mellon-MIT grants to study nongovernmental organizations and forced migration. October 30, 2002

Iraq attack likely - Three panelists on a Center for International Studies discussion titled "War With Iraq: Pros and Cons" on Monday agreed that US attack on Iraq is likely. October 23, 2002

ArchNet launched - The Aga Khan, MIT and Harvard have unveiled the world's largest online resource of historical and contemporary materials on architecture, urbanism, landscape design and related issues of concern to the Muslim world and people interested in it. October 2, 2002

Ritter urges caution on Iraq - Scott Ritter, a former chief of UNSCOM, urged to keep both the United Nations charter and the U.S. Constitution in mind when considering military action against Iraq. October 2, 2002

International travel delayed - Changes to the U.S. visa application process enacted since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks delayed the travel plans of about 100 new and returning MIT students this fall. October 2, 2002

Energy summit a flop, prof says - An MIT professor who attended the recent United Nations' World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa came back "sadder but wiser," frustrated by an event he says was more pep rally. September 18, 2002

Energy summit a flop - MIT professor who attended United Nations' World Summit on Sustainable Development in South Africa says event was more pep rally than venue for addressing environmental concerns. September 16, 2002

Seminars focus on Middle East - The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar will celebrate its 17th anniversary this fall with three Tuesday afternoon lectures on contemporary Middle Eastern affairs. September 11, 2002

CIS names executive director - Carolyn Makinson, program officer for population at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, joined the Center for International Studies as executive director. September 11, 2002

MIT welcomes CMI students - Forty-nine Cambridge University third-year students from 10 countries and the United Kingdom will study at MIT this year as part of the Cambridge-MIT Institute undergraduate student exchange program. September 11, 2002

Fortnight in France - A French cultural immersion program, "January Scholars in France," will offer a two-week experience in Paris during IAP 2003 for up to six undergraduates. September 11, 2002

49 CMI students from UK at MIT - Forty-nine Cambridge University third-year students from 10 countries and the United Kingdom will study at MIT this year as part of the Cambridge-MIT Institute undergraduate student exchange program. September 9, 2002

Research shows promise for malaria vaccine - By mimicking a toxin produced by the most lethal malaria parasite, researchers report in Nature that they have created a vaccine that is extremely effective in mice. August 14, 2002

MIT hosts Clinton fellows - MIT hosted the inaugural session of the Clinton Democracy Fellowships this summer, providing room and board for 12 South African professionals who participated in the City Year-sponsored program. August 14, 2002

Web site aids diagnosis, treatment of fungal infections - Physicians and medical students from around the world can now access a new interactive web-based guide developed at MIT for understanding and managing invasive fungal infections. July 1, 2002

Project Oxygen unveils new technologies - At the second annual meeting of the MIT Oxygen Alliance, held June 12-13, researchers showed the technology advances this ambitious goal has inspired. June 19, 2002

Media Lab Asia names Sareen director - The Board of Directors of Media Lab Asia today announced the appointment of Bimal Sareen, 40, as its CEO and managing director. June 10, 2002

Nepal water project photos online - Photos of the Nepal water project can be seen online. June 5, 2002

CIS receives $10M gift - The MIT Center for International Studies was honored on its 50th anniversary with a grant of $10 million from the Starr Foundation. May 23, 2002

Bringing clean water to Nepal - A team of eight MIT students and their advisor brought their ingenuity and technical skills to villages in Nepal. May 22, 2002

Nepal water project photo gallery - A team of eight MIT students and their advisor brought their ingenuity and technical skills to villages in Nepal this year. Find photographs here. May 22, 2002

Vest reaffirms open access - MIT President Charles M. Vest reaffirmed MIT's support for open educational access for international students at the May 15 faculty meeting. May 22, 2002

Prince Andrew visits MIT - Prince Andrew, The Duke of York, is greeted by Rebecca Vest, together with British Consul-General George Fergusson and MIT President Charles M. Vest. May 22, 2002

Petition opposes divestment - More than 3,200 members of the Harvard-MIT communities have signed a new petition opposing divestment from Israel. May 15, 2002

BollySpace melds film, digital media - Three graduate students from the Comparative Media Studies Programhave been suffering from sleepless nights lately, but not because of finals. May 8, 2002

CIS plans 50th celebration - The Center for International Studies will c