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MIT in the Media

The following news clips about MIT, updated on a regular basis, are just a partial selection of our most recent media coverage.
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Forbes,
"For the last three days, 2,500 of the world’s leaders convened to discuss global poverty, political upheaval, climate change and whatever else keeps them up at night."
Financial Times,
"Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have come up with an improved design for the giant mirrors that focus the sun's heat in the new generation of 'concentrating solar power' plants."
PBS NewsHour,
"As President Obama and GOP presidential candidates talk about reviving the U.S. manufacturing sector in hopes of creating jobs, how realistic is that goal in the face of continued outsourcing and machines filling jobs once held by humans?"
Scientific American,
"A new study of a lunar rock scooped up by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin during their Apollo 11 mission indicates that the ancient moon long sustained a dynamo—a convecting fluid core, much like Earth's, that produces a global magnetic field. The age of the rock implies that the lunar dynamo was still going some 3.7 billion years ago, about 800 million years after the moon's formation."
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
"But unless traditional colleges figure out a way to incorporate the new players and their ideas, such as MIT did recently, the innovators will figure out a way around the credentialing hurdle that will be acceptable to students, parents, and, most important, employers."
The New York Times,
"Even if he didn’t quite make it all the way to outer space, as some early reports claimed, a two-inch Lego man, with a fixed grin and a Canadian flag in his hand, did travel about 80,000 feet above the Earth’s surface to the upper stratosphere this month, and he has the stunning video to prove it."
BBC News,
"Preventing a 'lost generation' of workers unable to get jobs is one of the world economy's biggest problems, according to delegates at the World Economic Forum."
Financial Times,
"Yesterday, I moderated a panel on 'The Future of Economics.' The panel included two Nobel laureates in economics – Peter Diamond of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Joe Stiglitz of Columbia."
CBS News,
"President Barack Obama has adopted a new strategy declaring for the first time that the United States has a national security interest to protect the nation's economic goods against terrorists, criminals and natural disasters in all corners of the globe."
The New York Times,
"'Early stage investors go to places before everyone else,' said Mr. Ito, who was appointed last year as head of the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 'In five to ten years, I think this will be a very vibrant entrepreneurial hub, but when it is going to happen will depend a lot on how much the governments and big companies are willing to allow those small companies to grow here.'”
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