From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Fri Dec 06 2002 - 15:22:10 PST
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M I T E - N E W S December 2002
A monthly update of news, events and research at MIT
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IN THIS ISSUE:
HIGHLIGHT: Arsenic in Bangladesh drinking wells may be linked to
crop irrigation
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/bangladesh.html
CAMPUS: MIT Mentors * Mitchell heads MAS * List Center Curator
$22M to Materials Sciences * MLK Professors * Dean for Discipline
Honor for Japan Office Director * DSpace * Bioterrorism Panel
RESEARCH: Arsenic in Bangladesh * Earthly Concerns
Global Warming * Venice Floods * Weight Control * Gravity Waves
FEATURE: Natural Cities
EVENTS: Media Hostility * Symphony Concert * Public Service
CLIPS: Listening to Europa * Investing in State's Future
Eric Lander * MIT-Spain Connection
QUICK LINKS
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MIT ON CAMPUS
MIT mentors inspire kids with 'Eureka!' moments (Nov. 20)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov20/science.html
Mitchell heads Program in Media Arts and Sciences (Nov. 20)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov20/mitchell.html
List Center curator has fun with 'Games' at the Zesiger Center (Nov. 20)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov20/goncharov2.html
$22.2 million grant to support materials research, K-12 outreach (Nov. 20)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov20/matsci.html
4 new MLK Visiting Professors named (Nov. 19)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/mlk-profs.html
Dean puts discipline in educational perspective (Nov. 18)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/tyrell.html
Japanese honor director of MIT's Japan office (Nov. 8)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/accardo.html
DSpace poised to transform research information storage (Nov. 6)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov06/dspace.html
Experts address bioterrorism (Nov. 1)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/bioterror.html
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MIT RESEARCH
Arsenic in Bangladesh drinking wells may be linked to crop irrigation (Nov. 21)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/bangladesh.html
Initiative aims to help understand, monitor Earth (Nov. 14)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/esi.html
Key to global warming prediction within reach (Nov. 14)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/hydros.html
Venice could provide gateway to 21st-century flood control method (Nov. 6)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/nov06/venice.html
MIT researchers: high-carb supplement helps with weight loss (Nov. 4)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/nr/2002/wurts.html
Gravity-wave search produces initial data (Oct. 30)
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2002/oct30/ligo.html
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MIT FEATURE
Natural Cities
Cities should exist in harmony with nature, says Anne Whiston Spirn,
professor of landscape architecture and planning and head of the
undergraduate program in urban studies and planning.
http://web.mit.edu/giving/spectrum/fall02/natural-cities.html
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UPCOMING MIT EVENTS
The Atlantic grows wider: media hostility on both sides
Dec. 12
http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?47490
MIT Symphony Orchestra Concert
Dec. 12
http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?39646
Public service in a liberalizing world
Dec. 18
http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?47577
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CLIPS & QUOTES
(Please note: links to outside news outlets may require registration
or fees, and may become inaccessible)
"Listening to Europa"
Astronomy Magazine, Nov. 22, by Jeremy McGovern
http://www.astronomy.com/Content/Dynamic/Articles/000/000/001/108msmhd.asp
"Investing in our state's future"
Boston Globe, Nov. 17, op-ed by Charles Vest and William Bulger
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/321/oped/Investing_in_our_state_s_future+.shtml
"The prince of nucleotides (Eric Lander)
Fortune, Nov. 11, by David Stipp
http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,389965,00.html
"College kids: a day in the life "
Wired News, Nov. 5, by Kendra Mayfield
http://www.wired.com/news/school/0,1383,56082,00.html
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List of MIT Publications - http://web.mit.edu/publications.html
MIT WORLD
Videos of MIT public events - http://web.mit.edu/mitworld
ALUMNI/AE
Alumni Association - http://web.mit.edu/alum/
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MIT SPECTRUM
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