Tag: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Nation & World

    Basic science

    A Harvard chemist and two graduate students from Harvard and MIT traveled to Liberia in June to conduct a workshop on science teaching for professors and students in the war-torn nation.

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    How touch can influence judgments

    Researchers find ways in which tactile sensations appear to influence social judgments and decisions in everyday life.

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    Turkle talks technology, intimacy

    “Technology proposes itself an architect of our intimacies,” explained Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professor Sherry Turkle to an engrossed audience May 14 at the Harvard University Extension School.

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    FAS names four full professors for 2010-11

    The following faculty members have been named full professors with tenure in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences: David Charbonneau, Matthew Nock, James M. Snyder Jr., and Malika Zeghal.

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    Sherry Turkle to give centennial year Lowell Lecture May 14

    Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Initiative on Technology and Self, will give this centennial year’s Lowell Lecture, titled “The Tethered Life: Technology Reshapes Intimacy and Solitude,” on May 14 (8 p.m., Lowell Lecture Hall), hosted by the Harvard University Extension School.

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    Preserving both planet and profits

    Harvard Business School Professor Rebecca Henderson delivered a talk last week in honor of Earth Day that offered a business strategy aimed at saving the planet.

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    Ecosystems under siege

    Environmental panel discusses the problems facing the Earth, and what it would take to reverse the damaging trends.

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    Paula T. Hammond wins 2010 Scientist of the Year

    The Harvard Foundation presented the 2010 Scientist of the Year Award to Paula T. Hammond, the Bayer Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as part of its annual Albert Einstein Science Conference: Advancing Minorities and Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics.

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    Six from Harvard named Paul and Daisy Soros fellows

    Out of 890 applications nationwide, six individuals from Harvard have been awarded 2010 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships.

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    Chomsky rates Obama’s first year

    Activist Noam Chomsky tells the Memorial Church gathering that President Obama, after a year in office, projects a foreign policy with real vision, but “hasn’t succeeded much in practice.”

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    Surrendering their secrets

    Ann Pearson, professor of biogeochemistry, uses chemistry to understand ancient biology.

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