Beaver Country Day School Student Inventors Travel to MIT for Premier Invention Celebration, EurekaFest A team of student inventors from Beaver Country Day School, one of only 16 high schools nationwide selected to receive a $10,000 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant in the 2012-2013 school year, recently completed its hands-free, quasi autonomous device, the JARVIS.
June 12, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
MIT and Wilson Center receive NSF grant to develop synthetic biology research agenda ( Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars/Science and Technology Innovation Program ) The MIT Center for International Studies and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars are collaborating on a $233,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help realize potential benefits and address potential ecological effects of synthetic biology.
June 10, 2013 - EurekAlert!
How MIT Is Hacking Thousands Of Worms To Print Buildings Leveraging a biological swarm of silkworms, MIT has constructed a beautiful pavilion that questions the very nature of 3-D printing. We think of 3-D printers as desktop machines, stagnant workhorses used to generate piecemeal shapes for humans to relocate in the real world. But a new, stunning piece of architecture by the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab brings all of those assumptions ...
June 10, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
James Sherley in Bizjournals.com I will either see the Provost resign and my hard-earned tenure granted at MIT, or I will die defiantly right outside his office,Sherley wrote in a letter to faculty Dec. 22. "This is the strength of my conviction that racism in American...
James Watson in BusinessWeek I said, 'Be president of anything except MIT,'Watson, who stepped down as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor in 2007, said in a telephone interview. "I thought it was too male- dominated, too focused on engineering."