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Within the Chemistry department at MIT a group of students, who call themselves Club Chem are ready to get you excited about science! (Learn more about Club Chem: ...

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Making Glucose Molecules
  • Chemistry,
  • Feature
Making Glucose Molecules

Video instructions for building a glucose molecule from the Photosynthesis lesson, using the AgileAtoms Molecules Set, made from LEGO® bricks.

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Recycling old batteries into solar cells
  • MIT News,
  • Feature
Recycling old batteries into solar cells

A system proposed by researchers at MIT would recycle materials from discarded car batteries -- a potential source of lead pollution -- into new, long-lasting solar panels that provide emissions-free power. (Learn more: http://bit.ly/VzcyA8) Video courtesy of the researchers

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MIT Holiday Greeting 2014
  • President L. Rafael Reif,
  • Feature
MIT Holiday Greeting 2014

Happy holidays from MIT President Reif and Christine Reif! +++++++++++ Holiday E-Greeting Team Sponsor: Judy Cole Project Leader: Maggy Bruzelius Design Director: Emily Muldoon Kathan Design and Development: Sputnik Animation Writer: Nancy DuVergne Smith Team members: Russell Boulais, Brielle ...

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2014 Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction
  • MIT Museum,
  • Event
2014 Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction

What is the Friday After Thanksgiving Chain Reaction? A grand event that could only happen at MIT! Participants link their chain reaction devices together forming one mega chain reaction – set off at the end as the event's thrilling culmination. More than 1,500 ...

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SDM Virtual Info Session
  • System Design and Management,
  • Event
SDM Virtual Info Session

Designed for mid-career technical professionals, SDM offers full-time, part-time, commuter, and distance options. Graduates receive a master's degree in engineering and management.

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Splash! at MIT
  • MIT News,
  • Profile
Splash! at MIT

For one weekend each November, thousands of High School students flood MIT's campus to take classes taught by MIT students on anything and everything. (Learn more about Splash!: http://bit.ly/1Auycoj) Video: Melanie Gonick/MIT Music sampled from "Divider" by Chris Zabriskie ...

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Dean's Innovative Leader Series: Adriane Brown
  • Innovation,
  • Event
Dean's Innovative Leader Series: Adriane Brown

Dean's Innovative Leader Series: Adriane Brown

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xTalks: Elizabeth Choe & George Zaidan of MIT+K12 videos
  • MIT+K12,
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xTalks: Elizabeth Choe & George Zaidan of MIT+K12 videos

Nov 12, 2014, xTalks: Elizabeth Choe & George Zaidan of MIT+K12 videos

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The Creative Practices of Antoni Gaudi in Colònia Güell ...
  • Architecture + Planning,
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The Creative Practices of Antoni Gaudi in Colònia Güell and Sagrada ...

Mark Burry SMArchS Colloquium November 21, 2014

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Examining Ebola Interdisciplinary Panel
  • Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences,
  • Event
Examining Ebola Interdisciplinary Panel

October 28, 2014

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CULTURUNNERS@MIT Monday Night Lecture
  • Arts,
  • Event
CULTURUNNERS@MIT Monday Night Lecture

Artists and scientists come together to share technologies and applications for cultural collaboration between the United States and the Middle East. During the CULTURUNNERS@MIT evening lecture, panels made up of selected artists, scientists, and curators will present and discuss their ...

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How Computers Compute (Science Out Loud S2 Ep5)
  • MIT+K12,
  • Feature
How Computers Compute (Science Out Loud S2 Ep5)

Even though we think of computers as super high-tech machines with tiny parts, they can also be huge, wooden, and mechanical. It's what they have in common that makes them computers - switches! ---------- Find us online! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 ...

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Revenge of the nerds: MIT football team undefeated in ...
  • Athletics,
  • Feature
Revenge of the nerds: MIT football team undefeated in historic run

From CBS This Morning: The engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology made a history breakthrough this fall, but it wasn't in a laboratory. It was on the football field. The school's Division 3 football team is undefeated this season for the first time ...

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MIT 100k Pitch Competition Finale 2014
  • MIT 100K Entrepreneurship Competition,
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MIT 100k Pitch Competition Finale 2014

2014_11_12_100k_Pitch_Competition

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High school student works on cutting edge research with MIT ...
  • MIT Sea Grant College Program,
  • Profile
High school student works on cutting edge research with MIT Professors

Karim (Husayn) Karimi has been a valuable research programmer high school intern at MIT Sea Grant for the past three summers. After finishing 9th grade in 2012 he googled "math professors" to see if he could help on any computer science and math projects. This ...

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Why the future of digital security is open
  • Business and Management,
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Why the future of digital security is open

MIT Sloan Experts | Lou Shipley explains why maintaining open-source best practices is key to ensuring digital security.: http://wp.me/p2HrZM-1iZ

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Engineering Trash Into Treasure
  • MIT+K12,
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Engineering Trash Into Treasure

Folks at MIT's D-Lab are turning trash into treasure - specifically, trash to heat homes and cook in developing countries. It's not magic - it's engineering! ---------- Find us online! Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MITK12 Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/MITK12Videos ...

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Ebola: The dark side of globalization -- Trond Undheim
  • Global,
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Ebola: The dark side of globalization -- Trond Undheim

MIT Sloan's Trond Undheim explains why the Ebola crisis is an example of the fiscal and emotional costs of globalization.

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Reading robots' minds
  • MIT News,
  • Feature
Reading robots' minds

A new visualization system developed by MIT researchers, combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot's intentions in real time. (Learn more about the system:) The researchers say the system may help speed up the development of ...

Complex 3-D DNA structures
  • MIT News,
  • Feature
Complex 3-D DNA structures

MIT biological engineers have created a new computer model that allows them to design the most complex three-dimensional DNA shapes ever produced, including rings, bowls, and geometric structures such as icosahedrons that resemble viral particles. (Learn more: http://mitne.ws/1yOHBaZ) Video ...

Introduction: Big Data And Privacy
  • Guest speakers and special events,
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Introduction: Big Data And Privacy

Speakers: Elizabeth Bruce, MIT Danny Weitzner, MIT Big Data and Privacy Working Group Date recorded November 12, 2014

Developing Analytics for the Healthcare Safety Net: A ...
  • System Design and Management,
  • Educational
Developing Analytics for the Healthcare Safety Net: A Systems Approach

Whether focused on big data, small data, or both, analytics is transforming healthcare by enabling better decision-making in both clinical and operational areas. However, according to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "Organizations that are part of the healthcare ...

Mass Audubon Annual Meeting Featuring EPA Administrator ...
  • Guest speakers and special events,
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Mass Audubon Annual Meeting Featuring EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy

Nuclear Innovation for the 21st Century - Prof. Richard K. ...
  • Nuclear science and engineering,
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Nuclear Innovation for the 21st Century - Prof. Richard K. Lester

Nuclear energy will be essential for achieving deep, rapid reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions. Today it produces almost two-thirds of all low-carbon electricity in the U.S. Nuclear power technology is highly reliable, easily scalable, and orders of magnitude ...

MITEI ExxonMobil Interview
  • MIT Energy Initiative,
  • Event
MITEI ExxonMobil Interview

The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) welcomed ExxonMobil as a founding member during a signing ceremony on Friday, October 31. The collaboration will be aimed at improving and expanding renewable energy sources and finding more efficient ways to produce and use the conventional energy sources we ...

Andres Jaque: "Architecture as Rendered Society"
  • Architecture + Planning,
  • Event
Andres Jaque: "Architecture as Rendered Society"

Andres Jaque Professor of Advanced Design, GSAPP, Columbia University Andrés Jaque is architect by the ETSAM and has been Tessenow Stipendiat -Alfred Toepfer Stiftung, Hamburg 1998- 99-. He is professor of Advanced Design at GSAPP Columbia University, New York. He ...

Keynote: Adopting Systems Thinking as a Standard ...
  • System Design and Management,
  • Event
Keynote: Adopting Systems Thinking as a Standard Organizational Approach

The numerous and diverse challenges facing society today have become more complex as people--and our institutions--become increasingly interconnected. Opportunities are plentiful, but only for those who can navigate the complexity, understand the ecosystems, and effect ...

Design Leadership at MIT
  • System Design and Management,
  • Event
Design Leadership at MIT

Matthew S. Kressy, director of the Integrated Design & Management (IDM) master's degree track offered by MIT's Systems Design and Management program, is an expert in product design and development. His extensive experience includes globally distributed, interdisciplinary, design-driven ...

Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy
  • Center for International Studies ,
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Starr Forum: Whither US Grand Strategy

SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Women Converge on Cancer - Susan ...
  • The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research,
  • Event
SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Women Converge on Cancer - Susan Hockfield

Susan Hockfield, Ph.D. President Emerita, MIT Faculty Member, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research SOLUTIONS with/in/sight: Women Converge on Cancer September 16, 2014 Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

Wrinkles in time
  • Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences,
  • Demonstration
Wrinkles in time

In this controlled experiment, you can see the formation of ridges. Wave conditions were kept constant during the experiment, and the view is centered in the middle of the tank where orbital amplitudes are about 10 mm. Microbial mat fragments were added to the tank approximately half an hour ...

Move Over, Big Data! How Small, Simple Models Can Yield Big ...
  • System Design and Management,
  • Event
Move Over, Big Data! How Small, Simple Models Can Yield Big Insights

Today's emphasis on big data and data analytics may leave some folks thinking that management and policy insights can only arise from the analysis of millions of data entries. Nothing could be further from the truth! Sometimes less is more. In fact, an excess of ...

Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra: ...
  • MIT OpenCourseWare,
  • Educational
Geometric Folding Algorithms: Linkages, Origami, Polyhedra: Lecture 1

Description: This lecture introduces the topics covered in the course and its motivation. Examples of applications are provided, along with types and charaterizations of geometric objects, foldability and design questions, and results. Select open problems are also ...

Gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells
  • MIT News,
  • Demonstration
Gold nanoparticles easily penetrate cells

A new study from MIT materials scientists reveals that a special class of tiny gold particles can easily slip through cell membranes, making them good candidates to deliver drugs directly to target cells. Video produced and edited by Melanie Gonick, MIT News Computer ...

Social Network Software to Assist People with Autistic ...
  • MIT Media Lab,
  • Event
Social Network Software to Assist People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Speaker: Henry Lieberman, Ph.D., Principal Research Scientist, MIT Media Laboratory People with autistic spectrum disorders face a variety of mental health challenges, ranging from being victims of bullying, to loneliness and depression as a result of their ...

Lies My Finance Professor Told Me
  • Economics,
  • Event
Lies My Finance Professor Told Me

Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor; Director, Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Alumnae Workshop: Advancement of MIT Sloan Women Through ...
  • Alumni,
  • Event
Alumnae Workshop: Advancement of MIT Sloan Women Through the Decades

Nicholas Fang: Playing Tricks with Optics -- From 3D ...
  • Industrial Liaison Program,
  • Profile
Nicholas Fang: Playing Tricks with Optics -- From 3D Microstructures to ...

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Chemistry

Students at work The Department of Chemistry at MIT is recognized as one of the top chemistry departments in the world. The Department has an ...

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MIT News

News and features from the staff at MIT News.

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Student Life

What's life like for a student at the Institute?

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The goal of the biological engineering discipline is to advance fundamental understanding of how biological systems operate and to develop effective ...

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Updated Dec. 3, 2014

Arts

The arts at MIT connect creative minds across disciplines and encourage a lifetime of exploration and self-discovery.

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Updated Nov. 25, 2014

Robotics

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Updated Nov. 25, 2014

Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Music, literature, economics, philosophy and more.

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Updated Nov. 19, 2014

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Many experts and academics visit MIT each year. This collection houses videos from those events, which has previously been featured on the MIT World ...

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MIT Energy Initiative

MITEI is an Institute-wide initiative designed to help transform the global energy system.

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Updated Nov. 14, 2014

Physics

Understanding of space and time and of matter and energy.

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MIT Sea Grant College Program

Providing real-world solutions to coastal questions.

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MIT+K12

The MIT-K12 project puts MIT as a publicly accessible “experiential partner” to the country’s K through 12 educators.

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119 videos

Updated Nov. 14, 2014

Entrepreneurship

Students often start businesses as a result of their work at MIT.

184 videos

Updated Nov. 5, 2014

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111 videos

Updated Nov. 5, 2014

MIT150

Events and historical videos from MIT's 150th anniversary in spring 2011.

256 videos

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Industrial Liaison Program

Creating and strengthening relationships between MIT and corporations worldwide.

196 videos

Updated Oct. 17, 2014

MIT Mobile Experience Lab

Radically reinventing and designing connections between people, information and places.

7 videos

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The students, faculty and staff in the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics share a passion for air and space vehicles, the technologies ...

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