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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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WSJ Blogs,
"Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Frank Levy and his co-author Kyoung-Hee Yu of the Australian School of Business argue that the fear that radiological work would be offshored to Bangalore was mostly media hype." — Story: "India Is Benign for Radiologists, Economists Argue"
The Economist,
"Such automation is precisely what Mehmet Fatih Yanik of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his colleagues have in mind. They have created a miniature production line to streamline the process of testing drugs on worms." — Report about research on mass-screening of drug candidates on tiny animals.
National Public Radio (NPR),
Silly Science Honored With Ig Nobel Prizes — MIT professor Eric Adams is a guest on NPR's Talk of the Nation, honored as one of the recipients of the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize awards.
Wired/Science News,
"In the new study, researchers led by Raúl Radovitzky of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies created an elaborate computer model of a human head that included layers of fat and skin, the skull, and different kinds of brain tissue."
The New York Times,
Arnold Barnett - Do Body Scanners Make Us Safer? — MIT professor Arnold Barnett speaks about the controversy surrounding new security measures.
BBC News,
"Previous studies have suggested that the Advanced Combat Helmet, currently employed by the majority of US ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, actually focuses blast wave energy, causing more harm than good. To find out, Raul Radovitzky of [MIT's] Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and his colleagues simulated a human skull in detail on a computer."
MIT's Rigobon Says Fed Doing `Right Thing' With QE2: Video
The Washington Post,
MIT's Rigobon Says Fed Doing `Right Thing' With QE2: Video — Roberto Rigobon, an economics professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about the outlook for inflation and the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing.
The Wall Street Journal (Asia),
"Lottery studies provide 'the best evidence you can get on charter schools short of running a clinical trial' because students are randomly assigned, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Joshua Angrist, co-author of the Boston study."
Boston Globe,
"He is one of three Harvard seniors — Zachary Frankel and Daniel E. Lage are the other two — who won a Rhodes scholarship, in addition to Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior Jennifer Lai."
Superhero style spacesuits
CNN,
Superhero style spacesuits — MIT has created a "superhero-style" spacesuit that's used to help fight bone loss in space.
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