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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a research institution. The institute provides education in the field of architecture and planning, engineering, humanities, arts, social sciences, management, and sciences.

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Related Topix: Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Science, Cambridge, MA

Wed Jun 19, 2013

Converge! Network Digest

Motorola Mobility Signs R&D Pact with Eight Leading U.S. Universities

Motorola Mobility's Advanced Technology and Projects group announced a collaboration agreement with eight top U.S. research universities to streamline new joint research projects and the development of fundamental new technologies.

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Related Topix: California Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard University, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Stanford University

Business Journal

Penn chooses nanotech center's first director

The center, which is slated to be dedicated Oct. 4, will house a 10,000-square-foot clean room and a suite of laboratories.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Nanotechnology, Georgia Tech, Marlton, NJ

R & D

Cheap, color, holographic video

In the journal Nature , researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology 's Media Lab report a new approach to generating holograms that could lead to color holographic-video displays that are much cheaper to manufacture than today's experimental, monochromatic displays.

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Wall Street Journal

To Master Your Next Meeting, Just Say 'Yeah'

New research out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that certain words seem to help participants appear more persuasive in meetings and increased the chances that their ideas would win acceptance from the group.

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TheAlternativePress.com

Fanwood-Scotch Plains Girl Scouts Recognize 2013 Award Recipients

FANWOOD/SCOTCH PLAINS, NJ - Fanwood-Scotch Plains Girl Scouts gathered May 28 to honor girls who had achieved the organization's highest awards, the Gold and Silver Awards.

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Related Topix: Fanwood, NJ, Scotch Plains, NJ, Middlebury College, Libraries, Union County, NJ

R & D

Multiview 3-D photography made simple

Computational photography is the use of clever light-gathering tricks and sophisticated algorithms to extract more information from the visual environment than traditional cameras can.

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Related Topix: Arts, Photography, Science, Computer Science

Live Science

Future Buildings Could be Made of Artificial Bone

Developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , human bone is the inspiration behind the latest high-tech composite, which can be made in just a few hours using a 3D printer.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Newsday

IMF entering university market

The International Monetary Fund is set to join an online university network and will run finance courses which will be available free to students around the world.

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Hays Daily News

Hoxie, we have an astronaut

His father, Don, remembers visiting the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., with Tyler, now 37, when he was in elementary school.

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Related Topix: Hoxie, KS, United States Air Force Academy, Science / Technology, Space, NASA

WMKY-FM Morehead

Students, professor make presentations at AAS conference

Morehead State University had two undergraduate students and a professor from the Department of Earth and Space Sciences give poster presentations at the 222nd meeting of the American Astronomical Society - the leading professional society of astronomers in North America - held in Indianapolis.

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Related Topix: Morehead State University, Astronomy, Physics, University of New Mexico, Cambridge, MA

US News & World Report

Three Ways MOOCs Will Change Colleges

With college tuition prices spiraling ever upward, it seems counter-intuitive that top schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University would also be racing to make their courses free online.

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Related Topix: Stanford University, Rice University

Thanh Nein News

A plague on our roads

PHOTO: AFP Commuters are caught in a traffic jam on a road caused by construction works on an elevated freeway in Hanoi.

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Related Topix: Southeast Asia, World News, Vietnam

US News & World Report

Top-Ranked Universities That Grant the Most STEM Degrees

Ninety-eight percent of Caltech's bachelor's degrees were granted in STEM fields, making it one of the top STEM universities in the country.

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Related Topix: California Institute of Technology, Colorado School of Mines, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

R & D

Surprising turns in magnetic thin films could lead to better data storage

A magnetic phenomenon newly discovered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers could lead to much faster, denser and more energy-efficient chips for memory and computation.

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Related Topix: Materials Science, Science

Boston.com

American Academy head Berlowitz went looking for the best and brightest - and found herself

Every year, members of the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge spend months sifting through nominations to find some of the world's most accomplished scholars, artists, and leaders to join their institution.

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Related Topix: Cambridge, MA, Duke University

Mon Jun 17, 2013

R & D

New synthesis could make biofuel more appealing for mass production

Massachusetts Institute of Technology chemical engineers have devised a cheaper way to synthesize a key biofuel component, which could make its industrial production much more cost effective.

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Related Topix: Biofuel, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Science, Biomass, Chemistry

The Huffington Post

Paul Krugman Surrenders To Washington: Bloomberg View

Nobel Prize-winning Economist Paul Krugman, professor of international trade and economics at Princeton University, pauses during a Bloomberg Television interview in New York, U.S., on Monday, Jan. 28, 2013.

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Related Topix: Princeton University, Financial Markets

Medical News Today

"Automated Conversation Coach" Enhances Interpersonal Skills

Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US have produced a computer program that helps individuals practise interpersonal skills so they feel more comfortable in job interviews or going on a first date.

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Related Topix: Computers, Science, Computer Science, Switzerland, World News, Autism, Health

R & D

Printing artificial bone

Researchers working to design new materials that are durable, lightweight and environmentally sustainable are increasingly looking to natural composites, such as bone, for inspiration: Bone is strong and tough because its two constituent materials, soft collagen protein and stiff hydroxyapatite mineral, are arranged in complex hierarchical patterns ... (more)

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Related Topix: Recreational Vehicle, Diamond