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Conference asks 'what's the use of race?'

"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. April 17, 2008

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

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. April 11, 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

The city that never sleeps ... nor stops talking

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. February 18, 2008

Hilts named new Knight Fellowships director

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. January 28, 2008

Study sees potential for more U.S. emissions

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. November 13, 2007

MIT AgeLab unveils driving support materials

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. November 1, 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

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