http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/technology-society.html Technology and society headlines from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology News Office. en-us http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/mitlogo-rss.jpg http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/topic/technology-society.html 88 31 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/race-adv-0417.html "What's the Use of Race?"--a conference exploring whether race and ethnicity can be used as analytic categories in law, medicine and government without calcifying the very divisions that research in these fields is supposed to erase--will be held April 25-26 at MIT. Thu, 17 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/race-adv-0417.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pandemic-0411.html The widespread assumption that pandemic influenza is an exceptionally deadly form of seasonal, or nonpandemic, flu is hard to support, according to a new MIT study in the May issue of the American Journal of Public Health. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/pandemic-0411.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/davis-peace-0401.html Two MIT student projects to promote peace in Sudan and in Bangladesh have won Davis Projects for Peace grants of $10,000 each. Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/davis-peace-0401.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nyte-0218.html What does the telecommunications traffic flowing in and out of New York City reveal about the city that never sleeps? MIT researchers hope to find out with their novel project, the New York Talk Exchange. Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/nyte-0218.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/knight-0128.html Philip J. Hilts, the author of six books and a prize-winning health and science reporter for both The New York Times and The Washington Post, has been named director of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program. Mon, 28 Jan 2008 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/knight-0128.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/eckaus-1113.html U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, even with technological advances and current energy-saving efforts, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT professor. Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/eckaus-1113.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/agelab-1101.html The MIT AgeLab, in collaboration with The Hartford Financial Services Group, today unveiled new materials to help families and caregivers determine when it is time for people suffering from dementia to stop driving. Thu, 1 Nov 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/agelab-1101.html http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ancient-wine-1029.html 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. Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 EST http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/ancient-wine-1029.html