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spotlight: what is in the cards for 2007?
 

A look back at how 2006 played out:
highlights from the year in spotlights


  
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iFind social networking
iFind: location-based social networking puts you (and your friends) on the map 		MIDAS automated dorm room
MIDAS: dorm room "party mode" gets rave reviews
we're open
OpenCourseWare: OCW thrives at five 		Pell grant illustration
Change in financial aid: MIT to match Federal Pell grants
half-size engine
The little engine that could: high performance at half the size 		offshore wind turbines
Offshore turbines: wind production without obstruction
Convergence Culture by Professor Henry Jenkins
Convergence Culture: a book, a conference, a blog, and a podcast 		silent aircraft initiative
Project runway: silent, eco-friendly airplane takes off
cancer research
Cancer research: getting to the root of the disease 		IGEM competition: bacteria that smells like banana
A cell show-and-smell: biological engineers develop bacterial bouquet
your name in space sponsorship program
Get your name out there—literally student satellite seeks sponsors in space 		The garden inside the cell-shaped building designed by Sloan Kulper (S.B. 2003) and Audrey Roy (S.B. 2005) would include such biologically inspired features as pools in the shape of endosomes, left, and mitochondria.
Biological blueprints: inspiring a cell-shaped building