In the U.S., recent headlines have focused on such issues as the debt ceiling, the recent credit rating downgrade, and unemployment. But consider this: increasing the average growth rate in the U.S. by one percentage point over the next 20 years ...
Join us for a fascinating discussion with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science officer of the SENS Foundation (SENS stands for "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senscence"), on the topic of "Regenerative Medicine Against Aging." Dr. de Grey has ...
Join us for a fascinating discussion with Dr. Aubrey de Grey, Chief Science officer of the SENS Foundation (SENS stands for "Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senscence"), on the topic of "Regenerative Medicine Against Aging." Dr. de Grey has ...
On Tuesday Oct 18th, come hear about one of the newest and most innovative programs at MIT and see how it can apply to you! Launched through a $20 million gift (with a matching requirement) by the Gordon Foundation -- the largest gift made to MIT's ...
Julie Soriero keynotes October 1, 2011 Crew Dinner
Val Skov '55 was Stroke of the 1954 and 1955 MIT Men's Lightweight Crew which won the 1954 and 1955 Thames Challenge Cup. He discusses the travails during the 1955 season. The is an introduction and comments from Jack Frailey '44 who was the coach of these Crews.
Alumni Crew Race between Class of '63 and MIT10. Announcement of winner. Christening of our new women's racing shell in honor of Julie Soriero, our wonderful athletic director.
Applications due Wednesday, October 12, 2011, at NOON For more information, application, and 2011-12 schedule, visit https://alum.mit.edu/students/NetworkwithAlumni/ExternshipProgram.
Talk given by President Susan Hockfield. September 16-17, 2011
This Alumni Association year-in-review video update was first shown at the 2011 Alumni Leadership Conference on September 17, 2011. It details the many programs of the MIT Alumni Association and how alumni volunteers support programs that engage ...
Learn about the Alan '73 & Terri Spoon Community Catalyst Leadership Program, which pairs MIT juniors with an MIT alumnus/a in a coaching relationship designed to meet each student's personal leadership development goals. Info session was ...
The entertainment industry was the focus of this year's View from the Top event, an evening featuring a panel of MIT alumni experts plus ample networking opportunities. Interested in how innovations in technology and programming are changing the ...
2011 was a great year for the Institute; together, the Alumni Association and volunteers hosted 164 sesquicentennial events--including the 8,000-person Toast to Tech party in Killian Court and the MIT Club of the Blue Ridge's mountain dedication in Virginia. View more ...
Tech Callers are MIT students who represent the Alumni Association and assist it in raising money for the Institute. Students call alumni in hopes of creating a connection between alumni and the MIT community and securing alumni gifts to the MIT Annual Fund. Approximately ...
MIT's Alumni Association is supported by more than 9,000 enthusiastic and engaged volunteers. The Alumni Association would like to thank the many volunteers who, over the last year, spent time improving their local communities via Institute ...
It took six decorators and two bakers more than a week to build MIT's biggest birthday cake ever. The result? A 24-foot long masterpiece that looked as good as it tasted. Watch the video to see how it all came together. Happy 150th MIT!
Two thirds of the US adult population and one third of the pediatric population is overweight or obese. The rates of diabetes, hypertension and heart disease parallel our societies increasing girth. These "adult" diseases are now commonly seen in ...
June 5,2011 MIT Reunion Row at Pierce Boathouse organized by Stu Schmill '86. Videographer Ron Young '63 http://www.mitcrew.org/reunionrow/2011rr.shtml
On May 19, 2013, 250 members of the MIT community gathered on Jack Barry Field with LED outfitted umbrellas as part of UP: The Umbrella Project.
Through this popular annual loan program, individual students and student groups may borrow original works of art from the collection for their private rooms and communal spaces.
Social phobias affect about 15 million adults in the United States, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, and surveys show that public speaking is high on the list of such phobias. For some people, these fears of social situations can be especially ...
Sharmila C. Chatterjee, senior lecturer in marketing at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to create a smart content marketing strategy.
Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, explains how to predict the popularity of a Twitter post.
Dr. Angela Belcher received the 2013 $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize for applying lessons in nature to design environmentally-friendly batteries, solar cells and clean transportation fuel, among other inventions.
This 30-minute documentary features the March 2012 premiere of "Awakening: Evoking the Arab Spring through Music," by composer Jamshied Sharifi '83.
Five graduating seniors discuss their time at MIT and what they look forward to in the future.
Robot instrument builder and MIT alum Andy Cavatorta discussed the creative process as part of CAST's 2013 "Music and Technology" seminar series. For more information: http://arts.mit.edu/cast/sss-lecturedemonstrations/
Institute Professor Emeritus Noam Chomksy, MIT Professor of Linguistics; Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, authors of "Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran"
On May 15, 2013, 3dim earned the grand prize at this year’s MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition.
The MIT Glass Lab is administratively co-sponsored by the Materials Processing Center and the Department of Materials Science and Engineering.
Learning the difference between kinetic and static friction.
Jesper Juul offered this lecture on Nov. 28, 2006. Juul is a video game theorist and assistant professor in video game theory and design at the Centre for Computer Game Research Copenhagen, where he also earned his PhD.
In a visit to the MIT campus on May 14, 2013, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of young MIT entrepreneurs.
Did you know that glaciers hold nearly two percent of Earth's water?
Speakers: Stephen Van Evera, Elizabeth Wood, Carol Saivetz, Bakyt Beshimov, Peter Krause, Jeanne Guillemin and Silvia Dominguez. Moderator: Richard Samuels
What message is your brain sending?
You can create your own mini flashlight.
This lesson teaches students about the history of the Pythagorean theorem, along with proofs and applications.
Steven Spear, senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses how organizations can display either zombie or agile hero qualities.
Richard M. Locke is deputy dean at the MIT Sloan School of Management and head of the MIT Department of Political Science
Recorded on June 6, 2013
Bicycle trick riding, no. 2 / Thomas A. Edison, Inc. CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899. SUMMARY Opens with a man riding a bicycle in a backwards circle, on a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street. He dismounts, then remounts the ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Showing "Herald" building, street and elevated railroad. NOTES Copyright: no reg. Camera, William Heise. Duration: 0:11 at 24 fps. MAVIS 214311. Filmed May 11, ...
OTHER TITLES Title in Maguire & Baucus catalogue: Paterson Falls CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., [1896] SUMMARY From Maguire & Baucus catalogue: A beautiful picture of the falls of the Passaic River, near Paterson, N.J. NOTES Copyright: no ...
CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Thomas A. Edison, Inc., 1902. SUMMARY As early as 1874, passenger balloon flights were being made over San Francisco. San Franciscans - and Americans in general - were fascinated with the thrills and dangers of flight. Although ...
Photos of 2013 MechE grad students
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Bob Wurtz of the NIH presents his talk, entitled "Adding corollary discharge to motor computations for action ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Krishna Shenoy of Stanford University presents his talk, entitled "Motor cortical control and prostheses: a ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Tamar Flash of the Weizmann Institute presents her talk, entitled "Geometry, time and compositionality in ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Larry Abbott of Columbia University presents his talk, entitled "Network Models of Motor Cortex."
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Moshe Abeles of Bar-Ilan University presents his talk, entitled "Detecting the dynamics of binding amongst ...
The annual McGovern Institute symposium took place on May 8, 2013 and featured nine talks on the subject of motor control and the motor cortex. In this video, Sandro Mussa-Ivaldi of Northwestern University presents his talk, entitled "Geometrical aspects of modularity ...
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