MIT’s Lobby 10 to be renamed in honor of fallen veterans
Posted On Tuesday, November 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: DiOnetta Jones Crayton, Memorial Lobby, Minority Education, MIT’s Great Dome, MIT’s ROTC programs
Lobby 10, an area below MIT’s Great Dome that has long been a gathering place and site of spontaneous performances, will soon receive a new official designation: On Nov. 18, it will be renamed “Memorial Lobby” in commemoration of MIT alumni who have given their lives in wartime as members ...
Researchers discover that an exoplanet is Earth-like in mass and size
Posted On Monday, November 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: identified an exoplanet, Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, mallest exoplanets, Space Research

‘Anklebot’ Helps Determine Ankle Stiffness
Posted On Sunday, October 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: anatomical jumble, Anklebot in a seated posture, IEEE Transactions, Mechanical Engineering at MIT, Neville Hogan
For most healthy bipeds, the act of walking is seldom given a second thought: One foot follows the other, and the rest of the body falls in line, supported by a system of muscle, tendon, and bones.
Upon closer inspection, however, locomotion is less straightforward. In particular, the ankle — the ...
Automatic Speaker Tracking in Audio Recordings
Posted On Sunday, October 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: central topic, CSAIL, Najim Dehak, speaker diarization, spoken-language-systems research

Innovation in Renewable-Energy Technologies is Booming
Posted On Saturday, October 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Jessika Trancik, new energy technologies, renewable-energy technologies, Santa Fe Institute

New Position Aims to Strengthen MIT’s Sustainability
Posted On Saturday, October 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Higher education, John DiFava, Julie Newman, Treasurer Israel Ruiz, University of New Hampshire, Yale University

Nanoparticle Vaccine Offers Better Protection
Posted On Friday, September 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: bacteria, Cryoelectron microscope, Darrell Irvine, Massachusetts General Hospital, mucosal surfaces, viruses

Medical Tourism is One of the Growing Trends Across the World
Posted On Friday, September 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under ARKANSAS, DELAWARE, FEATURED, FLORIDA, GEORGIA, HAWAII, INDIANA, LOUISIANA, MARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, MISSOURI, NEBRASKA, NEW JERSEY, NEW MEXICO, NEW YORK, NORTH CAROLINA, NORTH DAKOTA, PUERTO RICO, SOUTH CAROLINA, SOUTH DAKOTA, TENNESSEE, TEXAS, VERMONT, WASHINGTON, WASHINGTON DC, WEST VIRGINIA Tags: cardiology, health care facility, joint replacement, low cost, Medical tourism, medical tourists, medical treatments, orthopedic surgery

Ruben Juanes Unravels The Mysteries of Underground Flows
Posted On Wednesday, September 18, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: ARCO Associate, Energy Studies at MIT, Ruben Juanes, U.S. energy landscape, University of La Coruna

Detecting Program-Tampering in The Cloud
Posted On Wednesday, September 11, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: C programming language, circuit diagrams, International Cryptology, Tel Aviv University, zero-knowledge proofs

New Method for Turning Genes on and off could enable more complex synthetic biology circuits
Posted On Wednesday, September 4, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: ACS Synthetic Biology, Christine Daniloff/iMol, complex synthetic biology circuits, control genes, DNA, MIT researchers

Dental Scanner Allows Researcher to Sink His Teeth into Entrepreneurship
Posted On Tuesday, August 27, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: arvard Business School, graduate students, Harvard University, János Rohály, Lava Chairside Oral Scanner, professor Douglas Hart

New Rechargeable Flow Battery Enables Cheaper, Large-Scale Energy Storage
Posted On Tuesday, August 20, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Hydrobromic acid, large-scale energy storage, Martin Bazant, membraneless systems

Professor Emeritus Rodney Brooks Refines the Sequel to iRobot
Posted On Monday, August 12, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Artificial Intelligence Lab, disruptive companies, iRobot, MIT spinoff, packing and unpacking, Rethink Robotics
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks gained fame in the 1990s for co-founding iRobot, an MIT spinoff that brought the world the Roomba and other innovative, helpful robots. He’s since moved on to robots that are bigger, but no less revolutionary.
Brooks’ newest startup, Rethink Robotics, headquartered in Boston, is producing robots that ...
UMass Amherst Wins Award from Food Management Magazine for Library Café
Posted On Monday, August 5, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Auxiliary Enterprises, Du Bois Library, Food Management’s, Ken Toong, library administration, University of Massachusetts

Improved Nuclear Fuel-rod Cladding Might Prevent Future Fukushimas
Posted On Monday, July 29, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, hydrogen buildup, Japan’s earthquake, loss-of-coolant nuclear accident, Tom McKrell, tsunami, Youho Lee

Newly Discovered Flux in the Earth May Solve Missing-Mantle Mystery
Posted On Sunday, July 21, 2013 By USA Education News. Under FEATURED, MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Countless theories, dust circled, Dusty disks, Earth arose, Earth’s origins, geologic observations, maelstrom of gas, violent origins

Writing Programs Using Ordinary Language
Posted On Sunday, July 14, 2013 By USA Education News. Under MASSACHUSETTS Tags: Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT’s Computer Science, ordinary language, Writing programs
