In the Media

"He is one of three Harvard seniors — Zachary Frankel and Daniel E. Lage are the other two — who won a Rhodes scholarship, in addition to Massachusetts Institute of Technology senior Jennifer Lai."

"Previous studies have suggested that the Advanced Combat Helmet, currently employed by the majority of US ground troops in Iraq and Afghanistan, actually focuses blast wave energy, causing more harm than good. To find out, Raul Radovitzky of [MIT's] Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and his colleagues simulated a human skull in detail on a computer."

"In the new study, researchers led by Raúl Radovitzky of MIT’s Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies created an elaborate computer model of a human head that included layers of fat and skin, the skull, and different kinds of brain tissue."

Superhero style spacesuits - MIT has created a "superhero-style" spacesuit that's used to help fight bone loss in space.

MIT's Rigobon Says Fed Doing `Right Thing' With QE2: Video - Roberto Rigobon, an economics professor at the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks about the outlook for inflation and the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing.

"Lottery studies provide 'the best evidence you can get on charter schools short of running a clinical trial' because students are randomly assigned, says Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist Joshua Angrist, co-author of the Boston study."

25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010 -- Alisa Braithwaite - MIT professor Alisa Braithwaite is listed as one of the 25 Most Stylish Bostonians of 2010.

"A Cambridge researcher who also teaches at MIT received the National Medal of Science yesterday from President Obama, the highest honor given to scientists, engineers, and inventors by the U.S. government." - Story on Whitehead Institute member Susan Lindquist's award.

"Philipp Robbel, a student at MIT’s Personal Robotics Group, has used a hacked Xbox Kinect camera and an iRobot Create kit to make a Roomba-esque KinectBot that can recognize human beings and respond to their gestural commands."

"Today researchers are buzzing about Bear and his radical new theory that offers a real glimmer of hope that some forms of autism may be treatable with drugs." - 'Decoding Autism,' a profile piece on MIT professor Mark Bear, exploring his research with autism.

- MIT Mobility Lab's Leveraged Freedom Chair is the winner of Scientific American's 2010 World Changing Ideas Video Contest.

"The device constructs a basic image of its surroundings — including objects hidden around the corner — by collecting the tiny amounts of light that bounce around the scene. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology team believe it has uses in search and rescue and robot vision." - Story on camera developed at MIT that takes photos around corner

Four Years After Health Reform, an Update on Care in Massachusetts - MIT economist and professor Jon Gruber discusses health care reform

"Simon Johnson, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management and a Bloomberg News columnist, talks about the outlook for global currencies and sovereign debt in Europe. Johnson, speaking with Tom Keene on Bloomberg Television's "Surveillance Midday," also discusses the outlook for U.S. financial markets."

"Cats, both big and little, are so much classier, according to new research by Pedro M. Reis and Roman Stocker of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, joined by Sunghwan Jung of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and Jeffrey M. Aristoff of Princeton."