recent news and features

10/30/08	Magnetic fields record the early histories of planets
10/30/08	Too much of a good thing: Cells with extra chromosomes share detrimental traits
10/29/08	Soros says crisis underscores need for regulation
10/29/08	Direct delivery
10/29/08	MIT Sloan to partner with world's top business schools in new degree program
10/29/08	Awards and honors: Oct. 29, 2008
10/29/08	Levels of the greenhouse gas methane begin to increase again
10/29/08	A giant leap for MIT: 4 alumni-astronauts will simultaneously be in orbit
10/29/08	Snapshots of staff diversity efforts at MIT
10/28/08	W1 renovations paused amid economic uncertainty
10/28/08	McGovern Institute funds collaborative neurotechnology projects
10/28/08	Diversity Leadership Congress to meet next month
10/28/08	From 'silence' to science
10/28/08	Researchers, protect your inventions
10/27/08	Leona K. Loughlin, longtime Lincoln Lab employee, 83
10/27/08	Far from perfect
10/27/08	MIT neuroscience bolstered by new faculty, viral core facility
10/24/08	MIT Furniture Exchange holding open houses in early November
10/24/08	Both sides of the Net
10/22/08	Students invited to apply for $30K Lemelson-MIT student prize
10/22/08	Awards and honors: Oct. 22, 2008
10/22/08	The nitty-gritty of energy
10/21/08	Tuning in to unconscious communication
10/20/08	Community Giving at MIT hosts used book fair Oct. 27
10/20/08	Conference weighs Electoral College pros and cons
10/20/08	CBI hosting Oct. 23 roundtable on drug safety
10/17/08	Shultz urges cut in U.S. oil dependence at MIT event
10/16/08	Alex d'Arbeloff: Photo Gallery
10/16/08	A celebration of Alex d'Arbeloff
10/16/08	Taxes and the economy
10/16/08	Workshop aims to put women on 'path of professorship'
10/16/08	Computer model reveals cells' inner workings
10/16/08	MIT's Smith wins top honors for work in developing world
10/15/08	Memorial service planned for Hulsizer on Oct. 19
10/14/08	Two faculty among Popular Science's 'Brilliant 10'
10/14/08	Whitehead director Page named to the Institute of Medicine
10/14/08	High-power computer cluster to sift through LHC data
10/14/08	Recent retirees honored at dinner
10/14/08	MIT Museum glows with promise of future energy
10/14/08	Young planets stay hotter longer
10/13/08	Krugman, formerly of MIT, wins Nobel economics prize
10/10/08	MIT research bringing 'smart bikes' to Denmark
10/10/08	Refining open education: New book on field is free online
10/10/08	Nobel economists support different development path
10/10/08	Eight MIT faculty named to the AAAS
10/09/08	'If we get through the next few weeks...'
10/09/08	Department of Urban Studies and Planning welcomes 17 new international fellows
10/09/08	MIT 9th among world's universities
10/08/08	Sea Grant symposium to focus on endangered whales Oct. 15-16
10/08/08	CarTel personalizes commutes by using WiFi to network cars
10/08/08	Three MIT scientists share Buckley prize
10/08/08	Conference to take hard look at Electoral College
10/08/08	Polling questions: MIT's Adam Berinsky breaks down the surveys
10/08/08	MITSO kicks off new season Oct. 10
10/07/08	Analyzing the 'sponge'
10/07/08	MIT conference on systems thinking to be held Oct. 23-24
10/06/08	MIT marks 25 years of international initiatives
10/06/08	MIT's energy projects on display Oct. 10
10/06/08	MIT report debunks China energy myth
10/06/08	National Academy of Engineering welcomes two from MIT
10/03/08	MIT creates Environmental Research Council
10/02/08	'To fold a big bang'
10/02/08	Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles
10/02/08	MIT Medical launches upgraded web site
10/01/08	Kenneth Hoffman, former math department head, 77
10/01/08	MIT hosts first UrbLab conference Oct. 3