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Various Articles from MIT News Office

July 17, 2008 - 9:02am — jmelczer

Link to MIT News Office re: article rebutting ABC’s News story (October 13, 2005):

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/reactor.html

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Link to MIT News Office about someone falling asleep (August 6, 2003):

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2003/reactor.html

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Link to MIT's own Nuclear Reactor webpage:

http://web.mit.edu/nrl/www/

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This is from the link re the type of reactor MIT has:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/ldx-tt0319.html read more...


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Proj Doc: A couple interesting findings

July 15, 2008 - 7:28pm — JulieAdler

This post relates to the Project Documentary course at CCTV. We are producing a film about the nuclear reactor on Mass. Ave.

1. This Harvard Crimson article states that there are 30 U.S. universities with "non-power" reactors used for research purposes; U Mass Lowell and Worcester Polytechnic are two of them. Have those communities faced similar controversy? Possible source: David Hoicka, Cambridge lawyer, who began a "Move the Nuke" initiative as part of his platform in a State Senate run in 1998.

2. Barely scratching the surface of archive.org I found this rockin' video, The Atom, from 1980. I feel like it does a lot of what we're trying to do. I would check out at least the first minute or two if you get a chance.


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Minority Women In Science Video mentioned in Women in Science Blog

June 9, 2008 - 1:56pm — lemonshirt

Peggy Kolm of Women in Science Blog posted about the video Minority Women In Science which was produced and screened at CCTV last year as part of the Cambridge Science Festival.


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When Young Astronomers Are the Stars

May 20, 2008 - 6:46pm — kmklinger

By Karen Klinger

It was “Astronomy in the City” night at MIT’s Stata Center and the stars were shining brightly.

In this case, the stars were middle and high school students showing off projects they had created during the past year as participants in programs sponsored by the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research.

At the May 16 community showcase, the students from Boston and Lynn demonstrated what they’d taken away from three innovative programs funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA and designed to bring science learning into their communities. read more...


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Biotech Job Fair

May 13, 2008 - 10:56am — laurieh

BIOTECH JOB FAIR

Career Source, a nonprofit career center in Cambridge, is hosting a job fair for biotech professionals seeking employment in the Greater Boston area.

Date: May 21st, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Location: CAREER SOURCE
Fresh Pond Mall, 3rd floor
186 Alewife Brook Parkway
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-661-7867
www.yourcareersource.com

Employers are seeking applicants for various positions and levels of experience.

Companies include:

Whitehead Biomedical
Genzyme
Idenix Pharmaceuticals
BioProcessors
Kelly Scientific
Commonwealth Sciences
Avecia Biotechnology
Randstad Scientific
Joule Scientific
Aerotek Scientific
Charles River Labs
Lab Pros
RainDance Technologies
On Assignment
Boston Scientific

Check out company websites for more information on employers and available positions. read more...


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Cambridge Science Festival: Nobelist Reflects on New Era in Physics

May 5, 2008 - 5:43pm — kmklinger

By Karen Klinger

As a teenager, Jerome Friedman was a talented painter who turned down a scholarship to an art school against the advice of his teacher to study physics at the University of Chicago.

It proved to be the right choice.

Friedman, an emeritus professor at MIT, shared the 1990 Nobel Prize in physics for research establishing the first solid evidence for the existence of quarks, building blocks for protons and neutrons--two main components of atoms.

In a talk at the MIT Museum during the Cambridge Science Festival, he reflected on his long career and his belief that with developments such as the recent completion of the world's most powerful particle accelerator, "I think we're coming into a new era of cosmology and particle physics and it's a very, very exciting time." read more...


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Cambridge Science Festival: I Take Thee ... Robot?

May 2, 2008 - 4:21pm — kmklinger

By Karen Klinger

MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle smiled as she recalled the conversation she had with a journalist for a leading science magazine who wanted to know why she opposed marriages between people and robots.

"He put me in the same camp as those who opposed marriage between lesbians or gay marriage," Turkle, a professor of the social studies of science and technology, told those gathered at the MIT Museum to hear her and colleague Cynthia Breazeal discuss "sociable robots."

The man accused her of "species chauvinism," she said. "It made me feel sad."

The talk by Turkle and Breazeal, an associate professor of media arts and sciences at MIT, was sponsored by the Cambridge Science Festival, a nine-day, citywide celebration of science and technology. read more...


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