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Members of the MIT community will have the opportunity to discuss the proposals of the Institute-wide Planning Task Force at several public events in the coming weeks.
The task force's preliminary repo
September 14, 2009 - Five of the nation's premier institutions of higher learning - Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Berkeley - today announced their joint commitment to a compact for open-access publication.
Source: "Low Temperature Synthesis of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes with Electrical Contact to Metallic Substrates Enabled by Thermal Decomposition of the Carbon Feedstock," Gilbert Nessim, Carl V. Thompson et al, Nano Letters, Aug.
In the 2,000 or so years since the Roman Empire employed a naturally occurring form of cement to build a vast system of concrete aqueducts and other large edifices, researchers have analyzed the molecular structure of natural materials and created entirely new building materials such as steel, which
Scientists worry that rising global temperatures accompanied by melting permafrost in arctic regions will initiate the release of underground methane into the atmosphere.
The MIT List Visual Arts Center is pleased to announce its selection of João Ribas as its new curator of exhibitions.
Researchers at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that rats use a mental instant replay of their actions to help them decide what to do next, shedding new light on how animals and humans learn and remember.
The work will appear in the Aug.
Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite as fast.
Mechanical engineers Kamal Youcef-Toumi and Pablo Valdivia Y Alvarado have designed the sleek robotic fish to mor
Source: "The rational design of nitric oxide selectivity in single-walled carbon nanotube near infrared fluorescence sensors for biological detection"
Jong-Ho Kim et al
The MIT Corporation's Executive Committee has approved 71 faculty for tenure, effective July 1, 2009. Additionally, 25 faculty members were promoted from assistant professor to associate professor without tenure.
All recent faculty promotions and appointments with tenure are as follows:
MIT retained its fourth-place position among national universities while the Institute's undergraduate engineering program continued its decades-long reign in U.S.
To Members of the MIT Community:
As you know, given the global financial crisis, last winter we appointed an Institute-wide Planning Task Force to consider how best to move forward with reduced resources.
Marilyn T. Smith will join MIT as head of Information Services and Technology, Executive Vice President and Treasurer Theresa M. Stone announced Wednesday. Smith will succeed Jerry Grochow, who will step out of his role on Sept.
Three current MIT researchers and six alumni have been named to this year's TR 35, Technology Review magazine's annual compilation of the 35 top innovators worldwide under the age of 35.
August 17, 2009
Above: Video update on MIT's Community Gardens located on the roof of West Garage and along the side of the Albany Street garage. Video / Melanie Gonick, MIT News Office.
Heavier rainstorms lie in our future. That's the clear conclusion of a new MIT and Caltech study on the impact that global climate change will have on precipitation patterns.
This past July, professionals who focus on developing technologies to combat infectious diseases like malaria convened in Singapore for a pilot short course offered by MIT Professional Education that was a first for the Institute in Asia.
The course, New Technologies for Diagnosis and Treatment of
