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MIT to welcome Amgen Scholars in 2007
10-19-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)MIT has been selected as a site for the prestigious Amgen Scholars Program, which provides opportunities for talented undergraduate students interested in the sciences to engage in fully-funded summer research experiences.
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- Deshpande Center announces fall 2007 grants
10-22-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
The Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation at MIT today announced it is awarding $1,030,000 in grants to ten MIT research teams currently working on emerging technologies.
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- Two from MIT win Franklin Institute Awards
03-15-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT Professor Emeritus Klaus Biemann and Professor Merton C. Flemings have won 2007 Franklin Institute Awards, joining the august company of past winners including Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison and Orville Wright.
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- MIT Press wins prestigious international award
06-26-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Ellen W. Faran, Director of the MIT Press, has received the 2007 Grinzane-Cavour Award in recognition of MIT Press' contributions, both substantial and ethical, to the publication of scientific and humanistic titles.
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- Two MIT profs win DOE's Lawrence Award
02-09-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
MIT professors Arup K. Chakraborty and Moungi Bawendi are among eight winners of the 2007 Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award from the U.S. Department of Energy.
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- Stenting of abdominal arteries offers welcome relief for 'intestinal angina'
05-11-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using catheter techniques perfected in the heart arteries, interventional cardiologists are successfully treating chronic mesenteric ischemia, a condition akin to intestinal angina. According to a study reported at the 30th annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, May 9-12, 2007, in Orlando, Fla., angioplasty and stenting of clogged arteries in the abdomen successfully restored blood flow to the intestines and relieved painful symptoms in more than 90 percent of patients, without major complications.
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- Pulitzer-winning dramatist honored
10-18-2006 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Suzan-Lori Parks will receive the 2006-2007 Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts on Oct. 27 at MIT.
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- Finkelstein will give Sigma Xi Lecture
04-25-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Amy Finkelstein, assistant professor of economics, will deliver the 2007 Sigma Xi Lecture, titled "Researching the Impact of Universal Health Insurance: Lessons from Medicare," at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, at the MIT Faculty Club.
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- Screening approach leads to discovery of gene linked to breast cancer
06-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
Using a novel three-part screening process, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a gene that is made inappropriately in about a third of all breast cancers. The discovery, reached in collaboration with researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, is reported in the June 15, 2007 issue of the journal Cell.
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- Brazilian artist to visit MIT
11-07-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Brazilian installation artist Ana Maria Tavares will be the 2007 Ida Ely Rubin Artist-in-Residence at MIT, visiting the campus from Nov. 12 to Nov. 17, and from March 2 to March 15.
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- MIT brace aids stroke recovery
03-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
At age 32, Maggie Fermental suffered a stroke that left her right side paralyzed. After a year and a half of conventional therapy with minimal results, she tried a new kind of robotic therapy developed by MIT engineers. A study to appear in the April 2007 issue of the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation shows that the device, which helped Fermental, also had positive results for five other severe stroke patients in a pilot clinical trial.
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