News bites from the Institvte

News bites from the Institvte After a ridiculously awesome weekend in New York, I’m home for Spring Break. Clearly, three days away from the Institvte is too much for me, and I’m finding myself searching for MIT news. The articles that I found provide some snapshots of MIT: 3/26/07: MIT models interdisciplinary supply chain In the near future, the presence of human colonies on the moon will require frequent missions to deliver fuel, food, and spare parts. Two MIT professors have created a software tool to model interplanetary supply chains. http://presszoom.com/story_126533.html 3/26/07: MITs Zimmerman wins second title at NCGA MIT sophomore Julia Zimmerman won the all-around title at the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Championship. http://www.wbay.com/Global/story.asp?S=6275565 3/26/07: An MIT doctoral student studies how addicted people are to their Blackberry devices “Melissa Mazmanian, a fourth-year MIT Sloan doctoral student, is working with assorted companies to study peoples BlackBerry habits.” http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/12909 3/26/07: His mind is on the eighth dimension MIT Mathematics Professor David Vogan and an international team have mapped “one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics. If printed on paper, the calculation would cover 49 square miles.” http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/03/26/his_mind_is_on_the_eighth_dimension/ 3/23/07: MIT Wants To Solve Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: University Working To End Conflict In Middle East “MIT officials are inviting individuals or teams from any country to participate in its Just Jerusalem competition. The contest aims to find a way to make Jerusalem just, peaceful and sustainable by 2050 so that Palestinians and Israelis can live side by side in a city both consider their capital.” http://www.thebostonchannel.com/education/11347549/detail.html 3/22/07: MIT Pistol Team Claims National Championship “Here’s something to brag about over spring break: MIT students have better aim with a pistol than their counterparts at the Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine Academies.” http://www-tech.mit.edu/V127/N14/pistol.html 3/21/07: MIT biologists solve vitamin puzzle “Solving a mystery that has puzzled scientists for decades, MIT and Harvard researchers have discovered the final piece of the synthesis pathway of vitamin B12the only vitamin synthesized exclusively by microorganisms.” http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/N_utrition_35/032207252007_MIT_biologists_solve_vitamin_puzzle.shtml