In the Media

"What has more than 30 food spots, including dining halls, restaurants, cafés, and food trucks? MIT’s campus, that’s what." - MIT has been ranked No. 2 by The Daily Meal for on-campus dining options.

"Ever since he was in college, Jeff Gore can recall being annoyed by the penny. Annoyed that it can’t buy anything. Annoyed that it gums up lines as customers fish for pennies. Annoyed that he only gets more of them when he buys something."

"Forget about putting solar panels on the roof. (MIT alum) Miles Barr wants to make curtains, cell-phone cases, and even shirtsleeves that generate electricity from the sun."

"Convening at the MIT Saxelab, neuroscientists, social psychologists and conflict management experts gathered for the Neuroscience and Social Conflict conference to determine effective, first-hand evidence and understanding of initiatives that seem to bear the best results."

"Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services 'with tremendous potential to help humanity.'"

"In December, M.I.T. said it was forming MITx under the leadership of L. Rafael Reif, the university’s provost, and the computer scientist Anant Agarwal. The program began offering its first course, on circuits and electronics, in March."

"The widening gap between America’s haves and have-nots is fueling debate across the political spectrum."

"While you may not have mastered the art of tweeting yet, the least you can do is avoid tweeting the wrong thing."

"Eric S. Lander of The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard topped the list of most influential researchers for the second year straight, recording 14 Hot Papers in 2011."

"Nancy Lynch, a long-time Massachusetts Institute of Technology computer science professor, was named Tuesday the Athena Lecturer, an annual award for pioneering female researchers who work in computer science."

"If Adam Smith had a mind meld with Charles Darwin, Andrew Lo might result."

"'Want to know the best thing about being a professor? Colored chalk.' That's the word from MIT engineer Donald Sadoway, whose class is one of the largest in the history of the school and whose online TED chalk talk has logged more than 380,000 views."

"The spectacular high-resolution photos and video that have been beamed down from the International Space Station (ISS) in recent months have become an internet staple."

"Dr. Varanasi’s day job is developing water-repelling compounds that can be painted on to things like aeroplane wings, in order to stop them becoming covered with ice. It is not far from that to stopping hydrate accumulating inside oil pipes."

"Neri Oxman, the director of the Mediated Matter research group at the MIT Media Lab, designs skins and body armors inspired by human tissue. 'Most patterns in nature—whether scales or spiderwebs—have some kind of logic that can be computationally modeled,' she says."