In the Media

Nobel Economic Recipe: Help States, Add Stimulus - MIT's most recent Nobel Laureate, Peter Diamond, is a guest on All Things Considered.

Will Small Step for Robots Lead to Giant Leap for Robotkind? - Professors Cynthia Breazeal, Marvin Minsky and Sherry Turkle are featured in a segment on robotics.

"While in the thymus, the cancer cells are covered in growth factors that protect them from the effects of chemotherapy drugs. These cancer cells later cause tumor relapse, said the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) biologists."

2011 America's Best Architecture Schools - MIT named as one of the top 10 graduate programs in architecture.

"With its stitching clearly visible and reference lines drawn in marker pen, the stretchy superhero-blue suit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Man Vehicle Laboratory doesn't look like much. But if it works as planned it could offer orbiting astronauts a replacement for something they are sorely missing: gravity."

"The gland bathes these rogue tumor cells with protective agents, the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reported in the journal Cell. The findings suggest that cancer treatments need to attack this hiding place."

“This is not a pretty picture, and it cannot be wished away.” - MIT President Emeritus Charles M. Vest on America’s deteriorating competitiveness

"Marathon runners need never 'hit the wall' again thanks to a mathematical model that will help them reach the finish line in their best time." - Story on research by HST student Benjamin Rapoport

Novartis will add 300 new jobs and invest $600 million over the next five years to expand its research campus in Cambridge.

"Jane Farver, director of the MIT List Visual Arts Center, has announced her retirement at the end of a nearly 12-year tenure distinguished by the presentation of nationally and internationally acclaimed contemporary art exhibitions and a remarkable increase in public art throughout the campus."

And Duflo found that the program was most effective when the money went to women, who are more inclined than men to invest in the welfare of their kids. - Story on MIT Economist Esther Duflo's research on cash transfers

"Guitar Hero, LEGO Mindstorms, One Laptop per Child, and E Ink all started off as Media Lab projects." - Story on 25 years of research at the MIT Media Lab.

"In between the retirement bookends of health and financial security is transportation – because if you can’t get to the big and little things that make up life, even health and money don’t matter." - AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin on how elderly drivers can stay safe and mobile

"We knew that passengers' costs were being underestimated by using the more simplistic approach. We didn't know the large extent they were being underestimated." - School of Engineering Interim Dean Cynthia Barnhart on how flight delays cost passengers nearly $17 billion.

"There's probably another million lost votes to be had by making ballots less confusing and by making sure that the boring stuff of election administration is taken care of." - Charles Stewart, head of MIT’s Department of Political Science, on voting problems in the U.S.