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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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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.
BBC News,
"The device constructs a basic image of its surroundings — including objects hidden around the corner — by collecting the tiny amounts of light that bounce around the scene. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team believe it has uses in search and rescue and robot vision." — Story on camera developed at MIT that takes photos around corner
Wired,
"Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has used a hacked Xbox Kinect camera and an iRobot Create kit to make a Roomba-esque KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond to their gestural commands."
Forbes.com,
"Today researchers are buzzing about Bear and his radical new theory that offers a real glimmer of hope that some forms of autism may be treatable with drugs." — 'Decoding Autism,' a profile piece on MIT professor Mark Bear, exploring his research with autism.
The Boston Globe,
"A Cambridge researcher who also teaches at MIT received the National Medal of Science yesterday from President Obama, the highest honor given to scientists, engineers, and inventors by the U.S. government." — Story on Whitehead Institute member Susan Lindquist's award.
The Boston Globe,
25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Alisa Braithwaite — MIT professor Alisa Braithwaite is listed as one of the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010.
Scientific American,
— MIT Mobility Lab's Leveraged Freedom Chair is the winner of Scientific American's 2010 World Changing Ideas Video Contest.
Four Years After Health Reform, an Update on Care in Massachusetts
PBS NewsHour,
Four Years After Health Reform, an Update on Care in Massachusetts — MIT economist and professor Jon Gruber discusses health care reform
The New York Times,
"Cats, both big and little, are so much classier, according to new research by Pedro M. Reis and Roman Stocker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined by Sunghwan Jung of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Jeffrey M. Aristoff of Princeton."
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