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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,
“Things are very much in flux. We will probably need human embryonic stem cells for a while. And then we probably will not need them anymore." — Professor of Biology Rudolf Jaenisch on the implications of the recent stem cell court decision.
Discovery News,
A team of students from MIT's SENSEable Cities Lab have just won the American round of the 2010 James Dyson Award for inventing the Copenhagen Wheel.
U.S. News and World Report,
"The secret to a successful career in science, engineering or math is to find something you both like doing and are good at. Take your time in college to explore and find what suits you." — Sara Seager, professor of planetary science and of physics, on "10 Tips for Women Students in Science Fields"
Bloomberg Businessweek,
"Kothari, also a professor of management at the Cambridge-based school, is heading up a new partnership between Sloan and the Indian School of Business, in Hyderabad." — Story on MIT Sloan School of Management's collaboration with the Indian School of Business, which will be led by Sloan Deputy Dean S.P. Kothari
Bloomberg,
The University of Georgia is the top party school, Massachusetts Institute of Technology undergraduates study the most and students at Brown University are the happiest, according to a survey by Princeton Review Inc. — Story on Princeton Review's "The Best 373 Colleges," which is available today.
The Boston Globe,
"I don’t think in the next 30 to 40 years, anybody is [going to be] foolish enough to build an experiment like this, given the trouble we went through." — Samuel C.C. Ting, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics, on the alpha magnetic spectrometer he designed that will fly with the last Space Shuttle next February.
CNN Money,
"The benches were deep on both sides." — William Swelbar, research engineer at MIT, on the executive structure after the merger of Continental and United Airlines.
New Scientist,
"Superimposing a historic photo on an up-to-date snap of the same scene is a neat way to bring history to life." — Story on collaborative work from MIT and Adobe on software that can help match current photos to ones taken at the same place and angle previously.
The New York Times,
NBC News is convening its own summit with education and political leaders in September to talk about ways to improve schools in light of statistics showing the U.S. lagging in student achievement. — MIT President Susan Hockfield will take part in the summit.
NECN,
Video: The Culture of Innovation — Director of MIT's Industrial Performance Center and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Richard Lester discusses work out of MIT.
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