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Zuber urges Congress to fund science research and education

Funding for research and education in science and technology should be a major priority in the economic recovery package Congress will soon be talking up, said MIT geophysics professor Maria T. Zuber...

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CIS scholars offer advice, new ideas to Obama

In response to the immense global challenges facing President-elect Barack Obama, scholars affiliated with MIT's Center for International Studies (CIS) have produced a document of succinctly stated...

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DUSP's Briggs joins Obama administration

Xavier de Souza Briggs, associate professor of sociology and urban planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has been named associate director of the White House Office of Management...

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The role of race

MIT Tech TV Some political observers have declared that the election of the first black president signals a new era of post-racial politics in the United States -- but the data show otherwise, two MIT...

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Robo-forklift keeps humans out of harm's way

Researchers in MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) are working on a better way to handle supplies in a war zone: a semi-autonomous forklift that can be directed by...

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Surviving without growing

Jay Forrester famously invented random-access magnetic core memory, or what we know as RAM. Forrester, now 90 and a professor emeritus of the MIT Sloan School of Management, also originated system...

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3 Questions: Kosta Tsipis on nuclear proliferation

"3 Questions" is a series from the MIT News Office that gives members of the community the opportunity to sound off on current events in their field of expertise. In this installment, Kosta Tsipis,...

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MIT-trained economists bring pragmatic approach to Obama administration

American presidents have famously raided universities to build their policy teams. President John F. Kennedy sought foreign policy advisors from his alma mater, Harvard. President Ronald Reagan relied...

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Understanding Our Blind Spots

Economists and policy-makers alike are trying to assess why risk-management systems and regulatory constraints didn't kick in before the global economy became so weak. To most, this situation is a...

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Hockfield, Obama urge major push in clean energy research funding

At a press briefing at the White House on Monday, MIT President Susan Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic" new level of federal funding for clean energy...

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When will it end?

Several MIT financial experts will discuss the current economic climate and how it has changed in the last six months during a talk titled "The U.S. Financial Crisis — Is There an End in Sight?"The...

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John Deutch to be honored

On the occasion of his 70th birthday, Institute Professor John Deutch is being honored with a symposium this Thursday in 10-250, featuring talks by leading figures from academia and government who have...

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At MIT forum, Markey announces energy bill hearings

At a policy forum hosted by MIT on Monday, April 13, Rep. Edward Markey (D-Mass.) announced that he and Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) will begin a series of high-level hearings next week in Washington...

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A life of research and service

Even before he had completed his PhD work at MIT in the early 1960s, Institute Professor John Deutch was already getting calls from Washington asking him to step away from academia and enter government...

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Moniz named to Obama's science and technology advisory council

MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest J. Moniz is among the 20 leading U.S. scientists and engineers selected to serve on President Barack Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)....

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MIT Public Service Center awards

Public Service Center Grants - Summer 2008- Coco Agbeyibor '11, Alexandria, Va. - Adnan Esmail '10, Bangalore, India- Mustafa Dafalla '09, Bridgeview, Ill.- Hattie Chung '10, Chapel Hill, N.C.- Michael...

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A fabric with vision

Imagine a soldier's uniform made of a special fabric that allows him to look in all directions and identify threats that are to his side or even behind him. In work that could turn such science fiction...

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Biochemist JoAnne Stubbe wins National Medal of Science

MIT biochemist JoAnne Stubbe will receive a National Medal of Science — the nation's top science honor — for her work in understanding the mechanisms of enzymes that play an essential role in DNA...

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Asteroids honor and motivate young scientists

Lincoln Laboratory's Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program has discovered more than 200,000 space objects, 30,000-plus of which have been numbered and made available for naming as minor...

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A capital achievement

President Barack Obama today presented MIT biochemist JoAnne Stubbe with the National Medal of Science during a White House ceremony.Stubbe received the nation's highest science honor for her work in...

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Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine

MIT Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, were elected today to the Institute of Medicine, an arm of...

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Letter to the community regarding President Barack Obama's visit

President Barack Obama will visit MIT on Friday, Oct. 23. Details of the event were described in an e-mail sent this evening to the MIT community from Kirk Kolenbrander, MIT's Vice President for...

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President Obama lights up MIT

President Barack Obama, in a historic visit to the MIT campus, praised the Institute's commitment to energy research and issued a strong call for the nation to lead the world in the development of new,...

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Susan Lindquist wins National Medal of Science

President Barack Obama on Friday named Susan Lindquist, a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and an MIT biology professor, a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the...

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3 Questions: Walt Henry

This year, MIT became a member of the Global Superior Energy Performance (GSEP) Partnership, a nationwide collaboration that aims to find, quantify and share the best methods for universities,...

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Lindquist receives National Medal of Science

President Barack Obama on Wednesday presented Susan Lindquist with the National Medal of Science, the nation's highest science honor, during a White House ceremony.Lindquist, a member of the Whitehead...

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Science school for judges

Last week, tucked away in a second-floor teaching space at the MIT Museum known as “the cell,” students huddled together in a dark corner of the room labeled “nucleus,” where they laboriously snapped...

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Reif briefs Obama in White House forum on the innovation economy

Delivering recommendations from a presidential committee he co-chaired, MIT President L. Rafael Reif addressed a forum on the future of manufacturing in the U.S. hosted by President Barack Obama at the...

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Will the new industrial city work?

The renewal of manufacturing is not an abstract economic issue: It is very much an urban issue. American manufacturing, for instance, rose in cities, and those cities grew around industries from...

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Dresselhaus and Solow win Presidential Medal of Freedom

Institute Professors Mildred Dresselhaus and Robert Solow are among 19 new winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.The honors were announced today by President...

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Hacking health care

For as long as she can remember, Andrea Ippolito has known that she wanted to be an engineer.What she couldn’t have predicted was what, precisely, the scope and scale of her work would turn out to...

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Report details steps needed to accelerate innovation at MIT

Innovation in the service of society has been at the core of MIT’s mission since the Institute’s founding more than 150 years ago.Now a preliminary report, leading up to the launch of an MIT Innovation...

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Interdisciplinary medicine

Since day one at MIT, senior Yiping Xing has been interested in exploring medicine from different perspectives. Already, the biology major has co-authored two scientific papers, including a Nature...

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New MIT report details benefits of investment in basic research

Last year was a notable one for scientific achievements: In 2014, European researchers discovered a fundamental new particle that sheds light on the origins of the universe, and the European Space...

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Putting research in the spotlight

In a world with constant streams of media covering everything from Hollywood to local news, research rarely gets a chance to tell its story. But on July 15, research leaders gathered at the National...

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Consortium including MIT awarded $110M national grant to promote photonics...

MIT is a key player in a new $600 million public-private partnership announced today by the Obama administration to help strengthen high-tech U.S.-based manufacturing. Physically headquartered in New...

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Susan Hockfield chosen to serve as AAAS president-elect

The following is adapted from a press release issued today by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.Susan Hockfield, president emerita of MIT, has been chosen to serve as...

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New institute will accelerate innovations in fibers and fabrics

An independent nonprofit founded by MIT has been selected to run a new, $317 million public-private partnership announced today by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter.The partnership, named the Advanced...

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3Q: Institute Professor John Deutch on maintaining US leadership in...

MIT Institute Professor John Deutch, who has been on the MIT faculty since 1970, has served as a department head, dean of the School of Science, and provost, and has published over 160 technical...

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Robert Langer named 2018 US Science Envoy

Robert S. Langer, the David H. Koch (1962) Institute Professor at MIT, has been named one of five U.S. Science Envoys for 2018. As a Science Envoy for Innovation, Langer will focus on novel approaches...

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Professor Daniela Rus named to White House science council

This week the White House announced that MIT Professor Daniela Rus, director of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), has been selected to serve on the President’s...

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Biden taps Eric Lander and Maria Zuber for senior science posts

President-elect Joseph Biden has selected two MIT faculty leaders — Broad Institute Director Eric Lander and Vice President for Research Maria Zuber — for top science and technology posts in his...

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George Shultz PhD ’49, renowned statesman and former professor, dies at 100

George P. Shultz PhD ’49, former U.S. secretary of labor, state, and of the treasury, died peacefully at his home on Feb. 6, at the age of 100. A champion of bipartisanship who for decades urged action...

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Institute Professor Paula Hammond named to White House science council

Paula Hammond, an MIT Institute Professor and head of MIT’s Department of Chemical Engineering, has been chosen to serve on the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the...

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MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of Energy

President Barack Obama announced today that he intends to nominate MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz to head the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Moniz is the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics and...

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Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced...

On Thursday, the United States Senate confirmed the appointment of Evelyn Wang, the Ford Professor of Engineering and head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, as director of the Department of...

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White House names Daniel Hastings to space advisory group

United States Vice President Kamala Harris, the chair of the National Space Council (NSpC), has named MIT Professor Daniel Hastings to serve on the NSpC Users Advisory Group (UAG). Hastings, who is the...

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Advocating for science budget and policy

A group of 20 MIT students and postdocs from various departments traveled to Washington from March 27-29 to advocate for increased federal funding of scientific research for the 2024 fiscal year. The...

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MIT’s Science Policy Initiative holds 13th annual Executive Visit Days

From Oct. 23-24, a delegation consisting of 21 MIT students, one MIT postdoc, and four students from the University of the District of Columbia met in Washington for the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s...

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AgeLab’s Bryan Reimer named to US Department of Transportation innovation...

Bryan Reimer, research scientist at the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics’ (MIT CTL) AgeLab, has been appointed by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) to the Transforming...

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