Issue: Winter 2007
COVER STORY: Powering Up
The scope of today's energy challenge demands both a new level of understanding and brand new solutions. Researchers in MIT's five schools are busy providing both.
Major Gifts
Fred and Carole Middleton give a series of gifts to help MIT lead the world.
Giving Back
Robert and Leslie Gladstone establish a fund to provide unrestricted support to MIT.
Bringing Us Together
Prof. Emma Teng works to promote mutual understanding among people and eliminate racial conflict.
Revealing DNA
Prof. Leona Samson hopes that one day treatments for cancer can be tailored to individual patients by determining how DNA repairs itself.
Less Is More
Prof. John Maeda writes The Laws of Simplicity, a guide to simplify business, technology, design, and life.
One Family
International students are matched with local families, who make them feel at home.
Diving In
Doria Holbrook is a national diving champ, who hopes to qualify for the Olympic trials in 2008.
Airplane On the Road
Carl Dietrich invents an aircraft that’s also a car.
The Sky’s the Limit
Diko Mihov ’96 establishes a graduate fellowship.
