Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Innovation Goes Downtown...high-tech meccas are being constructed deep inside major cities. Michael Joroff, an urban-planning guru at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubs them "new century cities." Their goal, says Joroff, an adviser to projects in South Korea,... In this article: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Seoul, Google, GlaxoSmithKline, IBM, and Barcelona |
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Guardian | November 16, 2009
China and US poised to break new ground in green technology partnership
...region of $18m, according to a source familiar with the deal. US officials have recently been trying to link China's Qinghua University, MIT in the US, and Cambridge in the UK. The two nations also talk a different language when it comes to...
In this article: China, Coal, US, Carbon, Barack Obama, General Electric, Beijing, Shenhua, Shanghai, and Competitive advantage
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boston.com - Latest Massachusetts news | November 05, 2009
US backs MSU, UK, MIT studies of medicinal plants
US backs MSU, UK, MIT studies of medicinal plants THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING EAST LANSING, Mich. -Researchers at three universities have received $6 million in federal stimulus grants to study the genetics of how...
In this article: Michigan State University, University of Kentucky, National Institutes of Health, UK, and US
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New Scientist - Latest Headlines | 22 hours ago
Welcome to the high-carbon future
It has been followed by a flood of improved methods, including a technique reported earlier this year by Jing Kong and her team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which involves growing graphene on top of crystals of other...
In this article: Graphene, Carbon, New Scientist, Electron, Andre Geim, Atom, Semiconductor, Vitor Pereira, and Photon
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Lexington Herald-Leader | November 17, 2009
UK venture to make doctors' ideas real
...start their own companies. Todd, who himself received patents on six pieces of technology while working on his doctoral degree at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it has required a shift in mind-sets. Therix, officially born in...
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JPost.com International | November 02, 2009
Norway's second-largest university to vote on Israel boycott
...the other NTNU professors in their struggle. "NTNU is a major Norwegian science and technology university, like the Technion or MIT, and a university of that stature engaging in an academic boycott of Israel, in a country that prides...
In this article: Israel, Hebrew University, Norway, Trondheim, and Ideology
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological research. MIT is one of two private land-grant universities and is also a sea-grant and space-grant university.
Founded by William Barton Rogers in 1861 in response to the increasing industrialization of the United States, the university adopted the German university model and emphasized laboratory instruction from an early date. Its current 168 acre campus opened in 1916 and extends over 1 mi along the northern bank of the Charles River basin. MIT researchers were involved in efforts to develop computers, radar, and inertial guidance in connection with defense research during World War II and the Cold War. In the past 60 years, MIT's educational programs have expanded beyond the physical sciences and engineering into social sciences like economics, philosophy, linguistics, political science, and management.
MIT enrolled 4,172 undergraduates, 6,048 postgraduate students, and employed 1,008 faculty members in the 2007/08 school year. Its endowment and annual research expenditures are among the largest of any American university. 73 Nobel Laureates, 47 National Medal of Science recipients, and 31 MacArthur Fellows are currently or have previously been affiliated with the university. The aggregated revenues of companies founded by MIT alumni would be the seventeenth largest economy in the world.
- Name:
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Type:
- Private
- Location City:
- Cambridge
- State:
- Massachusetts
- Location Country:
- U.S.
- Founding Date:
- January 01, 1861
- Head:
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- Phillip Clay
- Susan Hockfield
- Associated With:
- NEASC, AAU, COFHE, NASULGC
- Endowment:
- US $7.5 billion
- Motto:
- Mens et Manus
- Campus:
- Urban, 168 acre
- Mascot:
- Beaver
- Colors:
- Cardinal Red and Steel Gray
- Undergrad:
- 4,172
- Postgrad:
- 6,048
- Faculty:
- 1,008
- Enrollment:
- 10,220
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