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A four-member team from Stanford University that created a film coating for electronic screens won a $200,000 grant and first prize yesterday in MIT’s third Clean Energy Entrepreneurship competition.

"You can try to treat each of the effects of weightlessness system by system, with certain pills for bone loss and certain exercise regimens for the muscles. Or you can treat the root cause of weightlessness by restoring gravity." - Laurence Young, the Apollo Program Professor of Astronautics and professor of health sciences and technology.

"The interesting thing about a GPU is that they are made to produce a visual world. What we want to do is reverse that process." - Nicolas Pinto, a graduate student in the Department of Brain And Cognitive Sciences.

"Without question, we would rather have done it all in the U.S. I'm an American citizen. We're an American company. It's an American-born technology." - MIT's Yet-Ming Chiang on manufacturing a battery technology he developed.

Researchers say they are a step closer to understanding why some people have natural protection against HIV. - Story on work by MIT's Arup Chakraborty

LaHood, who was at MIT to promote innovation in transportation technology, encouraged the public to become more energized about the issue in the 26 states that have not passed a texting ban and the 44 without hands-free cellphone requirements. - Story on U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's visit to MIT

"It's fine to help the developing world, but first you have to know what it needs. Amy Smith does." - Amy Smith, D-Lab founder, named to Time Magazine's 100 most influential people list

"If you're in a growing market and your costs are below the cost of development, it's a guaranteed investment." - William Wheaton, director of MIT's Center for Real Estate, on what to look for in buying a home.

"We should be doing more to celebrate the importance of science and technology in a cultural way, getting it out there in the square, not just confining science in the lab." - John Durant, director of the MIT Museum, on the impetus for creating the Cambridge Science Festival

"The M.I.T. OpenCourseWare Initiative helped usher in the “open educational resources” movement, with its ethos of sharing knowledge via free online educational offerings, including podcasts and videos of lectures, syllabuses and downloadable textbooks." - Story on "open educational resources" and MIT's OCW.

"In his home country, Dudamel is the equivalent of a rock star." - Story on conductor Gustavo Dudamel, who visits MIT this weekend as the recipient of the prestigious McDermott Award in the Arts.

"Americans, whether they are rich or poor, are much more in favor of high-skilled immigrants." - Jens Hainmueller, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, on research he conducted that examined the reasons for anti-immigration sentiment in the U.S.

“If you’re watching TV and you hear a helicopter in your surround sound, wouldn’t it be cool to just turn around and be able to see that helicopter as it goes into the screen?” - Graduate student Santiago Alfaro on "Surround Vision"

Water may kill a computer chip, but a new water purifier inspired by computer chip technology could save millions of lives. - Story on research from the lab of MIT's Jongyoon Han

"Despite these challenges, MIT and others who attended the two-day meeting are taking two very important steps ... they are leading by example in convening leadership around this very important topic, from which tangible activity will hopefully coalesce." - Dr. Lorelle L. Espinosa, director of policy and strategic initiatives at the Institute for Higher Education Policy.