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The following news clips about MIT, updated on a regular basis, are just a partial selection of our most recent media coverage.
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CNN,
"Three days after embattled Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko announced his resignation, the White House announced President Barack Obama intends to nominate (MIT alum) Allison Macfarlane, a professor at George Mason University, to the agency's top post."
The New York Times,
"President Obama on Thursday nominated (MIT alum) Allison M. Macfarlane, a professor of environmental science at George Mason University, to serve as chairwoman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission."
Popular Science,
"Whether you’re at the doctor’s office or taking medicine at home, future injections could be a lot less painful with this new gadget developed at MIT. Instead of a sterile metal point penetrating your skin, it fires a jet of medicine through your skin at the speed of sound."
WBUR's CommonHealth,
"Now (and may I say it’s about time) researchers at MIT have developed a device that may inject a variety of drugs without using needles."
WBUR's Radio Boston,
"The push for online learning is gathering force, and not just at Harvard and MIT, with their groundbreaking edX project."
NPR,
"But no matter which man wins the next election — Obama or presumed challenger Mitt Romney — he may well go down in history as the First Robot President."
New Scientist,
"Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab are developing software that can read the feelings behind facial expressions. In some cases, the computers outperform people."
New Scientist,
"In August, the Russian government, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), will open the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology. The institute's home will eventually be in a new 'science city' outside Moscow."
Boston Herald,
"Five collegiate teams — including two from local campuses — have spent the past 48 hours building prototypes for creative and useful apps as part of the 2012 Cable Show’s first-ever 'Imagine App Challenge' hackathon at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center."
Financial Times,
"'The great thing about the online market place,' says Dana Chandler, an MIT PhD candidate who researches the phenomenon, 'is that it is distributing work and income directly to people who wouldn’t have access to it before. You bypass physical migration, and open up the labour market to people in the most remote and poor parts of the world.'"
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