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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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The New York Times blogs,
“The M.I.T. Energy Conference has established itself as a popular destination for industry wonks, venture capitalists and freelance energy geeks looking for a glimpse into how techno-visionaries hope to solve a daunting problem: providing energy for the planet’s six billion people reliably, affordably and, ideally, without making a mess.”
The Boston Globe,
"'MIT has a longstanding interest generally in the interface among science, technology, and art,' said John Durant, director of the MIT Museum.”
The Boston Globe,
“The David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT is a bold statement that a university with no medical school intends to remain at the vanguard of fighting cancer. The premium address reflects a universitywide commitment, staked out by MIT president Susan Hockfield, to make cancer exploration a cornerstone of the school in this century.”
Wired,
Cellphone Networks and the Future of Traffic — “The future of mobile sensing isn’t limited to traffic monitoring. The CarTel project at Massachusetts Institute of Technology demonstrated the use of accelerometers mounted on a fleet of a local limo company to detect and map potholes.”
The Chronicle of Higher Education,
“The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, an independent lab affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ranks No. 1 on The Scientist’s latest ranking of the best places for postdoctoral researchers in the life sciences to work in the United States.”
TheScientist,
Ready, Reset, Go — “It was a misbehaving virus that drew MIT professor Rudolf Jaenisch to epigenetics.”
HDNet,
“Meet physics professor Ernest Moniz from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Moniz is not just a world-renowned scientist, but also an expert in policy who served in President Clinton’s administration and now is on President Obama’s council of advisers on science and technology.”
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“It’s a reversible drug-induced coma, to simplify. As with a coma that’s the result of a brain injury, the patient is unconscious, insensitive to pain, cannot move or remember. However, with anesthesia, once the drugs wear off, the coma wears off.” — Professor Emery Brown
Discovery.com,
"Enter Talaris, the Terrestrial Autonomous Lunar Reduced Gravity System, a prototype robot under development at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in partnership with the non-profit Draper Lab. Rather than wheels, Talaris would use chemical rocket thrusters to launch itself off a planetary surface, hover, fly to a new location and gently lower itself to the ground again."
The Boston Globe,
"This is what is great about Walid: He is very imaginative. He really worked on adapting his menus from a sit-down restaurant, listening to people with experience in college dining about the speed and pace that you have to feed people." — Rich Berlin, director of Dining Services at MIT, on Walid Masoud's Sepal dining location in the MIT Student Center.
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