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NAE announces award winners John Casani and Sheila Widnall
Panasonic Sponsors MIT Solar Team
Nanoparticles target ovarian cancer
Breaking the law, at the nanoscale
Barcodes for the rest of us
Editor’s Notebook: Finding 50 ways to love your liver
MIT is Organizing New Genetic Parts
Theodore H. H. Pian; taught aeronautics, astronautics at MIT
The Parkway Known As Storrow Drive
Recalling the ‘Giant Leap’
Quanta Computer extends collaboration with CSAIL
Tracking trash
Weaving the way to the Moon
Nanotechnology advances in medical-advice industry
Three researchers win presidential early career awards
‘Crazy minds, able hands’
The iDoor: iPhone app and a secret knock
Tailoring surgical glues for specific applications
A fabric with vision
Professor pushes for green jobs to reduce poverty
Interview with Tim Berners-Lee
Three MIT engineers taking part in NAE’s U.S. Frontiers of Engineering symposium
Louis D. Smullin; pioneered microwave, radar research
Rise of the 40-something intern
Airlines should scrap ‘obsolete’ in-flight entertainment
Theodore Pian, former AeroAstro professor, 90
A phone is not just a phone
MIT, CDC find H1N1 flu virus ill-suited for rapid transmission
The power of being made very small
MIT Takes Composites to the Nanoscale
Obese Get Higher Doses of Radiation for X-Rays
Extending the shelf life of antibody drugs
Chemical Engineering professor wins 2009 Amgen Biochemical Engineering Award
5 High-Tech Fixes for Infrastructure
Students float their ideas
Engineering for extreme environments
Nanotechnology expert wins Lemelson-MIT Prize
A Better Fit for Hearing Aids
Koch Institute symposium targets tumor metastasis
A promising niche for nanotech
New book explores the global airline industry
New head of Nuclear Science and Engineering
MIT, Arab Republic of Egypt announce fellowship program
Peeling stickers may lead way to stretchable electronics
International Engineering Systems Symposium addresses complex, large-scale challenges
Taking the heat off
LGO ’05 Alum Vic Sahney Climbs Mount Everest
A Camera from a Sheet of Fiber
Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Prize 2009
Engineers find way to slow concrete creep to a crawl
A Cheap Route to Robust LEDs
Buzz Aldrin, The Boston Pops and MIT Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Lunar Landing
In space, past is prologue
Neil Armstrong Remembers Man Behind Apollo 11
Collaboration eyes computing boost for New England
MIT community mourns loss of Professor David Schauer, 48
MIT Engineers Plan August 2009 Mission to Engeye Health Clinic in Uganda
MIT celebrates the moon landing
Blocking termites’ defense mechanisms
Louis Smullin, former electrical engineering department head, 93
Berners-Lee: We no longer fully understand the web
Taken your medicine?
A stitch in time
Drawing inspiration from nature to build a better radio
To the moon, by way of MIT
The Emerging World of Real-Time Cellphone Data
MIT Announces Leaders for Global Operations Program
Fresh Faces in Tech: 10 Kid Entrepreneurs to Watch
A New Nanotechnology Collaboration
Engineered circuits can count cellular events
Buyukozturk elected to Scotland’s national academy
MIT students win 2009 Popular Science Awards
Bus Stops of the Future: Are They Realistic?
10 Degrees Hotter by 2100? Odds Are Good, Unless We Act
Out of the Labs: Teflon Knees
Robotic therapy holds promise for cerebral palsy
Waste, or energy resource?
A renaissance in logistics for economic growth
Finishing touches: New alloys could replace chrome
Hockfield: Hope in new energy
The CityCar and Mobility on Demand
MIT researchers make magazine’s list of ‘100 most creative’
Small RNAs yield great amounts of data from ocean
Alums win annual MIT $100k Entrepreneurship Competition
Implantable device offers continuous cancer monitoring
New tissue scaffold regrows cartilage and bone
Talent management becoming key to Transportation success
Showcase your innovation at IdeaStream 2009
3 Questions: Jeffrey Hoffman
Spinning at the nanoscale
Engineering dominates third round of MITEI seed grants
A material for all seasons
Angela Belcher boosts battery performance with viruses
Targeting tumors using tiny gold particles
Robots on a recycling rampage
A New Engineering Staff Award
The 2009 Infinite Mile Awards
MIT, Portuguese government strengthen joint research agenda
Innovator Selanikio Wins $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability
Tim Berners-Lee Named to National Academy of Sciences
MIT awarded Aragon International Prize
DOE to establish two Energy Frontier Research Centers at MIT
Engineering tops US News graduate rankings
Summit to explore global sustainability
CEE alum named Dean of Engineering at Columbia University
MIT projects that could revolutionize your life
CEE Website Wins a Webby
Microbes point to method for isolating harmful forms of drugs
Alum Will Fix Hubble For the Last Time
At MIT forum, Markey announces energy bill hearings
Transportation Innovation
It’s a fine line
I, Robot-And Gardener: MIT Droids Tend Plants
MIT engineers work toward cell-sized batteries
MIT spinoff gets Detroit contract
A wearable blood pressure sensor
Novel needle could cut medical complications
MIT to host clean energy policy forum
Building robots that take orders from the brain
Solar-powered Eleanor gets set for Australian race
Students’ system puts card data on phones
Black Alumni of MIT Celebration
‘Fuzzy logic’ reveals cells’ inner workings
MIT SA+P students win urban design competition
New virus-built battery could power cars, electronic devices
Professor returns to MIT to give annual Killian Award lecture
Microchipping The World To Pieces
Mechanical Engineering student named Truman Scholar
Why Animals Migrate: New Understandings
Hockfield, Obama urge major push in clean energy research funding
Feeling your age (or someone else’s)
Open access to faculty scholarship
New material could lead to faster chips
MIT OpenCourseWare: Teaching the world for free
Living Livers
En route to greener life? You’ll need a map
Flying car takes its first flight
Manufacturing inefficiency
Ethernet - a networking protocol name for the ages
Chandrakasan honored for semiconductor work
Re-engineered battery material could lead to rapid recharging
Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award
New gel offers controlled drug delivery
Dresselhaus wins Vannevar Bush award
Precision Agriculture: Sustainable Farming in the Age of Robotics
MIT inching closer to making CityCars a reality on wheels
The will to sustain
‘Nanostitching’ stronger airplane skins
Student’s invention holds promise for engineering tissues and organs
Transportation, transformed
Profile: Being Bob Langer
MIT takes on global transportation challenge
MIT Student Develops New Innovations to Selectively Kill Cancer Cells
Agile Robotics: Autonomous Forklift
TR10: The Liquid Battery
MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation Joins the Engineering Systems Division
Sleek new MIT solar car heads to the races
Shocking Power
The Window to Energy Saving
Knowing when to fold
MIT Develops More Cost-Efficient Rocket Technology
Calculating gene and protein connections in a Parkinson’s model
Green wheel turns pedal bike into electric hog
Algae Discovery may Shed Light on Red Tide Outbreaks
MIT Students Create Bicycle-Powered Washing Machine
MIT alumni companies generate billions for regional economies
Enlisting Microbes to Solve Global Problems
Chronic Infection May Add to Developing-World Deaths
Immuneering Tests Another Path for Personalized Medicine
MIT, Masdar Institute Partner on Clean Energy
Irwin Jacobs: School of Engineering Distinguished Lecturer
10 Finalists Selected for CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare
MIT Tops Rankings of University Web Sites
More Power from Bumps in the Road
Four MIT Engineers Elected to NAE
Suresh Wins Education Leadership Award
Aliens at Sea
Design Optimization at Nanoscale
Can We Build a Better Battery Without Lithium?
Neurotech Spawns Brainy Businesses
Top high school students to compete in Blue Lobster Bowl
A New AIDS Research Center
Alum’s $100 million gift targets AIDS vaccine
Faculty named to the Association for Computing Machinery
A Great Time to be a Scientist
Road-worthy plane? Or sky-worthy car?
The 2009 Kambourides Fellow: Bradley Bond
Environmental Measures Can Help Control Malaria
MITHENGE (Infinite Sunset) 4:49pm and 33 seconds
Bhatia among tech paper’s 10 “Women to Watch”
Nano-C, Inc. ‘delighted’ with Dr. Michael Strano
Bhatia among tech paper’s 10 ‘Women to Watch’
All About Toys
Nitric Oxide Shown to Cause Colon Cancer
Why Computers Can’t Kill Post-Its
Worldwide Race to Make Better Batteries
Robo-Forklift Keeps Humans Out of Harm’s Way
Masdar Institute Joins MIT Energy Initiative
MIT Women Engineering Change
The Dean’s Advice to the President
Two MIT Professors named Royal Academy of Engineering fellows
Four MIT Researches win NSF CAREER Awards
Oil Extraction Improved with Mapping Technology
Learning to Build a Better Microbe
Putting Heads Together to Solve Problems
Too Much of a Good Thing
Wireless Electricity Is Here (Seriously)
Prototype This! (Engineering for the masses)
CIMIT Prize for Primary Healthcare
Hi, Robot: Making friends with machines
Could Spider Silk Save Your Life?
MIT Develops New Way to Fuse Cells
New Discovery May Aid in Antibody Production
Gold Particles Deliver More than just Glitter
The Science of Waiting in Line
An Easy Ride Around the Crowd of Old Polluters
New members of Royal Academy of Engineering
MIT Trio to Help Make T Cards Secure
Transportation Research in the MIT AgeLab
Low-Tech Efforts Can Help Prevent Disease
Nine from MIT named AAAS fellows
MIT Joins Google Lunar X-Prize Race to the Moon
Nominations: Kambourides Graduate Fellowship
‘RoboClam’ Anchor Holds Ships Steady
Robots in Rehab
MIT Materials Science Professor Receives DOD Recognition
New Insights on Fusion Power
MIT Research Targets Wave Power
Digital Tools: Your World View Doesn’t Compute
Researchers Boost Solar Cell Efficiency
EECS Prof. Devadas Wins ID Trailblazer Award
Student Inventors Take Top Prizes
Four MIT Marshall Scholars: Four Engineers
Two Rhodes Scholars from the School of Engineering
A Birthday Party for Bob Langer
Vote for (MIT’s) Best Crazy Green Idea
MIT Grad ASM’s Best Young Materials Teacher
2008-2009 Xerox MIT Fellows Celebrated
Self Propelling Fish Farms
How to Make Materials Everything-Proof
Univ. of Maryland, College Park appoints new Dean of Engineering
Obituary: NSE Professor emeritus, Gordon Brownell
Masdar Institute ‘is key to knowledge-based economy’
MIT captures single-cell response to vaccination
Slimy snails do the (underwater) locomotion
Microengraving Technology Documents Autoimmune Steps In Diabetes
100 Years of AIChE and MIT
Two faculty among Popular Science’s ‘Brilliant 10’
A technology that succeeds when GPS fails
MIT Senior Lecturer wins honors for work in developing world
Nanotech Sensor Detects Toxins in Living Cells
NASA Needs a New Direction, Says Independent Review Panel
Tiny MIT Ecosystem May Shed Light on Climate Change
Mystery Of Gravity Fingers Mathematically Explained
Scientists ID Protein Aiding Breast Cancer Spread
MIT research looking for cheaper, more abundant solar cell materials
Developing a Better Flight Plan for Weather Forecasting
Sasisekharan named new HST director at MIT
Digging Out From Piles of Sticky Notes
The Friday Interview: Swraj Paul
A Fin-Tuned Design
Robots May Come to Aging Boomers’ Rescue
A More Eco-friendly Option for Coal Power Plants
“Nano-Backpacks” Assist in Cancer Diagnosis
4 Alumni-Astronauts in Orbit
MIT is developing new technologies for neuroscience research
Vibrating cells disclose their ailments
Interview with the Dean
View from the top
Suresh wins Eringen Medal of the Society of Engineering Science
Model Simulates Atomic Processes in Nanomaterials
Suresh wins Acta Materialia Gold Medal
MIT cheers his malaria fight, cell by tiny cell
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