In the Media

"It is noteworthy this year that two of the best in Boston – Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management – selected women executives as their commencement and Class Day speakers."

"We created a strain of E. coli that can specifically bond to a molecule that is present in most malignant cancer cells and is able to deliver a therapeutic agent to the specific cell."

"The more troubling answer, though, points to a fundamental misunderstanding: a failure to recognize that analysis of unemployment is crucial to conducting monetary policy."

Sherry Turkle, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose specialty is technology and relationships, calls this a particular sort of "Huck Finn moment," in which Huck "takes his parents with him. We all sail down the Mississippi together."

"The students work essentially as partners with their teachers, and together they have produced technological innovations that often seem touched by magic, from the e-reader to the lifelike robotic prosthesis now in development."

"They reveal the persistent gaps in understanding of the mix of atmospheric conditions in America’s tornado hot zones that can transform a stormy, turbulent day into a catastrophic outbreak of funnel clouds."

"He didn’t think he could do it, but people encouraged him. He ended up at MIT and earned a Ph.D. in laser physics."

"What’s the difference between a ho-hum graduation speech and one destined for the history books?"

“Pleasantness and memorability are not the same,” says MIT graduate student Phillip Isola in a statement.

"This year, the magazine offers a new twist: the 10 most pet-friendly colleges."

“An MIT professor's book detailing the bare-knuckled political brawl by America's Founding Fathers to win ratification of the Constitution has received the $50,000 George Washington Book Prize.”

"If you come up with a brilliant idea, that's OK. If you win a Nobel prize for your research, that's fine. But if you take that idea and apply it and make something transformative happen, then in MIT that's deeply admired."

"His apps — so far he’s focused on HIV, hypertension, and diabetes — redefine the doctor-patient relationship, casting it as 'person and health coach,' with constant interaction."

"Why is a rainbow an arc and not a straight line? Why can we typically see auroras only if we’re close to the North or South pole?"

Engineers probing the ruined nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant are finding yet more damage.