In the Media

"After looking at several schools in the region, M.I.T. selected Sabanci School of Management in Turkey for a partner program that involves joint research and will also connect M.I.T students with local internships, says S.P. Kothari, deputy dean at Sloan."

"MIT’s commercial property price index released Wednesday showed that prices of commercial properties sold by major institutional investors grew by 11.9% in the fourth quarter, and 19.3% percent for 2010 overall, according to the index created by the MIT Center for Real Estate."

"Using natural crystals, two independent research teams, one at MIT, have designed “carpet cloaks” that can make 3-D objects as big as an ant or a grain of sand seemingly disappear into nothing." - This article originally ran in Science News.

"Meanwhile, researchers at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory over the past few years have discovered that a drug that allows coils of DNA to relax can restore learning and memory in mice with a condition resembling Alzheimer’s disease."

"But a new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that these people still have trouble using theory of mind to make complex moral judgments. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology recounted the following story to 54 subjects (roughly half of them diagnosed with high-functioning autism) and asked them to rate the morality of the main actor."

Economist warns on U.S. budget - The Boston Herald covers this week's MIT 150th Economics Symposium.

"MIT Economist Simon Johnson and NYSE Euronext Chief Duncan Niederauer join Richard Haass of the Council on Foreign Relations and Chrystia Freeland to debate the the long-term effects of government bailouts of the big banks."

Innovator: Joseph Bates - MIT visiting scientist Joseph Bates is featured in Bloomberg Businessweek's Innovator column.

Davos: Solar Power Seen A Key To Future - Article on discussions at the World Economic Forum on clean energy solutions, highlighting MIT research.

NOVA series — "Making Stuff: Smaller" - The episode of this series airing on Wednesday, Jan. 26, will feature Department of Physics Assistant Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, recent winner of the Packard Fellowship.

"The study, led by MIT's Dr. Sandy Petland who runs the MIT Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, tested whether early buzz could precipitate a product's ultimate success." - Story on "What Groupon and LivingSocial Cannot Offer"

"[Rodney] Brooks’s MIT colleague, social scientist Sherry Turkle, shares his fascination with how human beings relate to technology, and vice versa."

"But Steven Piantadosi and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge say that, to convey a given amount of information, it is more efficient to shorten the least informative — and therefore the most predictable — words, rather than the most frequent ones."

"So far, the H5N1 strain has mainly infected birds and poultry workers, but experts fear the virus could mutate to pass easily from human to human. However, Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that to enter human respiratory cells the virus must first pick a very specific type of lock."

A special report on global leaders: The global campus - MIT president Susan Hockfield is featured in a major article on the role of universities as global leaders.