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Deborah Nightingale and Gigi Hirsch quoted in New York Times column about improving the drug development process; Ragu Bharadwaj (SDM ’07) also quoted (The New York Times – November 15, 2009)

Joe Coughlin quoted in article about computer programs designed to help prevent deterioration of brain function during aging (The Boston Globe – November 17, 2009)

ESD PhD students win awards at Ignite Clean Energy competition; coverage in Mass High Tech and earth2tech (November 11, 2009)

MIT CTL included as a "Center of Excellence" in Supply Chain Brain article (November 10, 2009)

Michael Cusumano quoted in article on Oracle's battle for the acquisition of Sun (The New York Times - November 10, 2009)

David Mindell chair of the MIT150 Steering Committee, inviting proposals
for symposium series
(MIT News Office - November 10, 2009)

MLOG student Marcus Causton wins National Collegiate Wheelchair Tennis
Championship
(MIT News Office – November 13, 2009)

LGO featured in New York Times article about engineering and management education (November 3, 2009)

Richard Larson talks about businesses and flu on WBUR (November 5, 2009)

ESD PhD student Katherine Dykes in story about evaluating potential sites for a wind turbine at MIT (MIT News Office - November 5, 2009); Story also picked up on physorg.com

Op-ed by Richard Larson on education as a service industry (Service Science - November 1, 2009)

Richard de Neufville quoted in Le Monde Diplomatique article about airports (November, 2009 - publication in French)

David Geltner quoted in article about commercial real estate (CNBC - November 3, 2009)

Article by Steven Spear in Quality Magazine (October 28, 2009)

Randy Kirchain and colleagues receive grant from Department of Energy for liquid metal battery project: press release
Also: New York Times blog DealBook (October 26, 2009) and The Boston Globe (October 27, 2009)

Annalisa Weigel named Charles Stark Draper Career Development Assistant Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, effective July 1, 2009. The Draper chair was established in 1975 by friends of Dr. Draper to recognize his outstanding achievements in engineering, public service, and teaching.

Missy Cummings on “Greater Boston” to talk about distractions in aircraft cockpits (October 27, 2009); Watch online (go to October 27th broadcast)

John Hansman quoted in article about “NextGen” air-traffic control system (Christian Science Monitor - October 29, 2009)

Cynthia Barnhart talks about new MIT and National Research Foundation of Singapore urban transportation project (MIT News Office - October 28, 2009)

George Apostolakis named nominee for Commissioner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission: press release

Ed Crawley talks about space panel report: BBC News (October 22, 2009); VOAnews.com (October 23, 2009)

Research project of Ricardo Valerdi and colleague covered in Federal Computer Week blog

Prashant Yadav (Professor of Supply Chain Management at the MIT-Zaragoza International Logistics Program) featured in Center for Global Development blog
(October 26, 2009)

Ed Crawley quoted in article about Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (Boston Globe - October 25, 2009)

ESD Director Yossi Sheffi appointed to Elisha Gray II Professorship

Missy Cummings discusses unmanned vehicles in article in The Futurist
(The Futurist magazine – November-December 2009)

Ed Crawley quoted in article about space taxis (CNBC.com – October 22, 2009)

Steven Spear’s Chasing the Rabbit wins a National Best Books 2009 Award

Ernest Moniz provides introductory remarks for President Obama’s clean energy address; view webcast

Simchi-Levi and co-author win prize for three papers (October 10, 2009)

Boston Globe article highlights Jhonatan Rotberg's NextLab Spring 2010 course sponsored by CTL (Boston Globe - October 15, 2009)

John Hansman quoted in an article on a non-radar air traffic system (ABCNews - October 12, 2009)

Michael Cusumano quoted in an article on the launch of Windows 7 (The Economist - October 14, 2009)

Michael Cusumano named one of the top 50 Agenda Setters in Information Technology by Silicon.com

Continuing coverage of climate policy model: The Christian Science Monitor - October 5, 2009; TG Daily - October 5, 2009; Treehugger.com

Ed Crawley mentioned in article on human spaceflight report (New Scientist - October 8, 2009)

David Geltner quoted in article about commercial real estate in Manhattan (The Financial Times - October 7, 2009)

John Sterman's award-winning textbook, Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World, has just been published in Japanese.

LAI to Lead New Effort Supporting Army Test and Evaluation of Unmanned and Autonomous Systems

MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change presents new analysis of climate risk; Mort Webster, lead author of the new report, explains the analysis (MIT News Office - October 2, 2009)

John Sterman discusses climate change modeling in Nature (Nature - September 29, 2009); This model is also the subject of this article in The Washington Post (September 25, 2009):

Olivier de Weck quoted in Boston Globe article about Space Investment Summit (The Boston Globe - October 1, 2009)

Thomas Kochan quoted in New York Times article about today's job market (The New York Times - September 26, 2009)

Thomas Kochan quoted in Boston Globe article about union president

ESD PhD student Danielle Wood featured on NASA website as a NASA Student Ambassador

MIT News Office story on MIT's new energy minor; Daniel Hastings quoted

Brent Woodworth's ESD Lecture is now available on TechTV

Sheila Widnall wins National Academy of Engineering's Arthur M. Bueche Award

David Mindell wins book prize for Digital Apollo

MIT Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals presents new Flu 101 website (October 2, 2009)

Missy Cummings quoted in article about unmanned airborne systems (Aviation Week - September 10, 2009)

Ed Crawley quoted in article about space exploration plan (New Scientist - September 16, 2009)
Also in: BusinessWeek and Sacramento Bee

 
Prof. Dava Newman in her BioSuit
Dava Newman models her BioSuit—a
sleek spacesuit that relies on mechanical
counter-pressure instead of using gas
pressurization—on Henry Moore's sculpture
'Reclining Figure' on the MIT campus.
Open image gallery
photo courtesy of Donna Coveney/MIT
         
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