In the Media

MIT Received More Than 17,800 Applications, Dean Says - "Massachusetts Institute of Technology said it received more than 17,800 undergraduate applications for the next academic year as students see value in a scientific or technical background."

Video: 150 Years Of Weird, World-Changing Innovation - "To mark MIT’s 150th anniversary, the MIT Museum exhibits 150 objects — many of them voted in by the community — that tell the story of world-changing and quirky innovation over the years."

OMGami! Awesome Origami by Brian Chan - "Brian Chan of the MIT Hobby Shop can fold a pretty mean square of paper. He has a lot of intricate insect origami, but what caught my eye especially were some of his geeky designs, like this one of Wall-E. According to his website, he got interested in origami in elementary school and then picked it back up while at MIT."

Innovation, Science, and the Next American Breakthroughs - MIT president Susan Hockfield is a guest on NPR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook, speaking on the topic of innovation, science, and the next American breakthroughs.

"A group of prominent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers has coined a new name for research that combines disciplines—"convergence," they call it—and called for policies to support these kinds of cross-cutting studies."

"The Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management made online applications mandatory in the 1990s—one of the first schools to do so. But only recently has the school eliminated paper from the admissions process."

"While convergence sounds like just another interdisciplinary mash-up, it may prove to challenge traditional scientific categories, according to several panelists at a forum convened by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science."

MIT Looks For Clues To Revive US Manufacturing - MIT professor Suzanne Berger is a guest on WBUR's Here and Now, speaking about MIT's manufacturing initiative.

"For the last decade researchers have been exploring the possibility of building planes with hydrophobic, or water-repellent, materials that would not require de-icing. But now, researchers from M.I.T. report that this approach is flawed."

"Infants as young as 7 months have the ability to perceive and understand another person’s point of view, according to a new study in the journal Science [co-authored by Ansgar Endress, a cognitive psychologist at M.I.T.]."

"Hey, the planet’s leading center of science, technology, and precision engineering turns 150 years old only once. So you’ll forgive the lovable geeks over at MIT if they spent four years planning the Institute’s sesquicentennial celebration."

"On Saturday, the museum will kick off the university’s yearlong 150th birthday celebration with the opening of the “MIT 150’’ exhibition."

"A facial-recognition system developed at the M.I.T. Media Lab and commercialized by Affectiva tracks face movements and links them with a database of expressions."

"'The biggest concern among patients is, 'Am I going to wake up?' said lead study author Dr. Emery Brown, an anesthesiologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology."