Landon Carter—The Tech
The 2.009 pink team takes a selfie at the end of one of the many challenges of the semester on October 3, racing vehicles of their own design to retrieve treasure from across the lava field of Killian Court. Though the pink team finished last, they won the team spirit award.
October 14, 2014
Some MIT classes, using edX, have moved toward a blended model of education, integrating in-person and online learning. According to both students and instructors, this effort has made students’ college experience more flexible, but not without other flaws.
October 14, 2014
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Nuclear Energy University Programs (NEUP) awarded five million dollars to an integrated research project led by Professor Charles W. Forsberg ScD ’74 of the department of nuclear science and engineering. Forsberg, NSE Professor Lin-wen Hu, and collaborators from University of California at Berkeley and University of Wisconsin at Madison received extended funding for their commercial high-temperature salt-cooled reactor, according to the MIT News Office.
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October 14, 2014
Fears about the deadly Ebola virus spread to Massachusetts this Columbus Day weekend, prompting holiday press conferences and reverse 911 calls to reassure a jittery public after two Ebola-related scares.
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- CORRECTIONS (10/14/14)
World and Nation
- Shorts (left) (10/14/14; 1 comment)
- British Parliament recognizes Palestinian state (10/14/14)
- Shorts (right) (10/14/14)
- Egypt cracks down on new student protests (10/14/14)
- Republican-majority Senate is starting to look likelier (10/14/14)
- Vatican signals more tolerance toward gays and divorce (10/14/14)
- Pentagon says global warming presents immediate security threat (10/14/14; 1 comment)
- Weather: Warm air precedes late-week storm (10/14/14)
Opinion
- GUEST COLUMN: Continuing the conversation (10/14/14; 2 comments)
Sports
- Women’s soccer earns win (10/14/14)
- Men’s soccer team loses to Wheaton (10/14/14)
- UPCOMING HOME EVENTS (10/14/14)
- MIT overcomes Wellesley in tie-break set to earn victory (10/14/14)
- One goal separated MIT from Wheaton College Goals by Krishnamachar ’15, Moroi ’16 propel MIT field hockey team to 3-2 victory (10/14/14)
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