Word: mit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last week the nation’s second-largest athletic program acknowledged that the recession had dealt it a devastating blow. MIT, proud former promoter of 41 varsity sports ranging from the mainstream to the obscure (the Engineers sported one of the best air pistol squads in the country), cut eight of its teams, including alpine skiing, men’s and women’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s gymnastics, golf, pistol, and wrestling...
Lander is the director of the Broad Institute—a joint venture between MIT and Harvard...
...widely-circulated e-mail from an MIT engineering student suggesting that one of her peers had contracted swine flu contained false information, an MIT infectious disease specialist confirmed this afternoon...
...group of Harvard and MIT affiliates are suing the developers of their planned residential community for preventing them from moving into an apartment complex in Kendall Square. Though the affiliates have already submitted their deposits, they allege that the developers have failed to take the necessary steps towards reaching a final closing date. The plaintiffs—a dozen current and former faculty members who have put down initial deposits for units in 303 Third Street—are part of an independent project known as “University Residential Communities” that has sought to create...
...medium-sized firms collapsed; from January to March this year, exports fell by 19.7%, putting more pressure on the survivors. "The crisis hits China's private sector really hard because China's private sector accounts for a larger share of China's manufactured exports," says Yasheng Huang, an MIT professor who wrote about the rising power of SOEs in his 2008 book [Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics]. "So essentially you have a private sector whose main source of customers has just disappeared...