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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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Wall Street Journal,
A Century and a Half of What Nerds Wrought — "MIT, incorporated as an engineering school just days before the Civil War broke out, is now celebrating its sesquicentennial with a variety of campus events, including the museum's year-long exhibition of 150 representative objects from its history."
Reuters,
MIT rolls out amazing artifacts for 150th birthday — "But the exhibition, which is one of a series of events marking MIT's birthday on April 10, also offers a glimpse into the artistic, academic, entrepreneurial and often quirky spirit cultivated on the Cambridge, Massachusetts campus."
Wired News,
OMGami! Awesome Origami by Brian Chan — "Brian Chan of the MIT Hobby Shop can fold a pretty mean square of paper. He has a lot of intricate insect origami, but what caught my eye especially were some of his geeky designs, like this one of Wall-E. According to his website, he got interested in origami in elementary school and then picked it back up while at MIT."
WBUR,
Video: 150 Years Of Weird, World-Changing Innovation — "To mark MIT’s 150th anniversary, the MIT Museum exhibits 150 objects — many of them voted in by the community — that tell the story of world-changing and quirky innovation over the years."
Bloomberg Businessweek,
MIT Received More Than 17,800 Applications, Dean Says — "Massachusetts Institute of Technology said it received more than 17,800 undergraduate applications for the next academic year as students see value in a scientific or technical background."
The Economist,
MIT and the art of innovation — The Economist blogs about the launch of the MIT 150 celebration at the MIT Museum, and the major role that innovation plays at MIT.
Innovation, Science, and the Next American Breakthroughs
On Point,
Innovation, Science, and the Next American Breakthroughs — MIT president Susan Hockfield is a guest on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook, speaking on the topic of innovation, science, and the next American breakthroughs.
Inside Higher Ed,
"While convergence sounds like just another interdisciplinary mash-up, it may prove to challenge traditional scientific categories, according to several panelists at a forum convened by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science."
The Wall Street Journal (Asia),
"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management made online applications mandatory in the 1990s—one of the first schools to do so. But only recently has the school eliminated paper from the admissions process."
Science News,
"A group of prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers has coined a new name for research that combines disciplines—"convergence," they call it—and called for policies to support these kinds of cross-cutting studies."
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