Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

Israel Gelfand left Russia in 1989 and moved to the United States, taking up posts at Harvard and MIT.

Portland City Commissioners Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman spent most of October sniping at each other in public or not talking in private.

M2 COMMUNICATIONS Source: M2 PressWIRE Wordcount: Washington, D.C., -- The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that three experts in the fields of risk management, structured finance and corporate transactions have been named to senior positions at the SEC's newly-established Division of Risk, Strategy, and Financial Innovation.

Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States.

Rush Limbaugh. Keith Olbermann. Glenn Beck. Partisan shouting is easy to find in mainstream media, and it is both popular and profitable.

Nov. 5 -- Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, talks with Bloomberg's Margaret Brennan about the outlook for the school after its endowment dropped 21% this year.

Researchers at three universities have received $6 million in federal stimulus grants to study the genetics of how plants make compounds used in medicines.

New Delhi, Nov. 4: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Yale have told India they are ready to join efforts to start 'world class' universities in the country, government officials said today.

Salt Lake City - The Fourth Street Clinic, a community health clinic, is operating at capacity, having to turn away between fifteen and twenty patients a day.

Working at the Museum Conservation Institute, Tsang retouches a painting from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.

As always, the devil is in the details . But it sounds like Congress is punting to the states on more than the public option - and since our states are smaller and our local officials more amenable to bribery contributors, this could be a real disaster.

An animation illustrates how, when a T cell's receptors lock onto the targeted antigen, parts of the receptors bend in a way that signals the T cell to change from... BOSTON--The immune system's T cells have the unique responsibilities of being both jury and executioner.

Robert H. Rines, a lawyer, composer, inventor and physicist whose discoveries led to sharper resolution in radar, sonar and ultrasound imaging and who claimed to have seen the Loch Ness Monster, has died.

There has to date been no medication that could alter the disorder's neurologic abnormalities.

A study of undergraduate students at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology reveals that so-called nerds have varied amd fulfilling sex lives.

Boston's mayoral election tomorrow has attracted little national attention, even if it is the toughest election fight Mayor Thomas M. Menino has faced in 16 years.

Tough economic times have hurt Harvard University's public standing in the media over the past nine months, while schools perceived as a safer educational investment have benefited, a research firm said.

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey suggests that braniacs at the nation's premiere center of higher nerd learning have less sex than other kids their age.

U.S President Barack Obama speaks to state and local leaders and MIT students and faculty October 23, 2009 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness.