Author: Katharine Dunn
OA research in the news: New way to monitor induced-coma patients
Brain injury patients are sometimes deliberately placed in a coma with anesthesia drugs to allow swelling to go down and their brains to heal....
OA research in the news: Nanoparticles attack aggressive tumors
MIT chemical engineers have developed a new treatment for an aggressive form of breast cancer whose tumors resist chemotherapy drugs. Led by David H....
MIT students engage with open access at Libraries event
Last Wednesday, more than 30 MIT students and researchers stopped by the Office of Scholarly Publishing & Licensing table in Lobby 10 set up...
Praise for MIT open access articles
More reasons celebrate International Open Access Week, October 21–25 The thank-you note arrived with language echoing the voices of many other readers of MIT...
OA research in the news: Changes to auditing may help reduce pollution
Economists at MIT have co-authored a study that underscores a troubling aspect of the auditing industry, in which auditors, because they’re paid by the...
OA research in the news: Faculty win “genius grants”
Two MIT professors are among two dozen nationwide recipients of the 2013 MacArthur Fellowships, known as the “genius grants.” Dina Katabi, a computer scientist,...
OA research in the news: Using solar power to clean water
A team of MIT researchers, led by mechanical engineering professor Steven Dubowsky, are developing a solar-powered system that can produce 1,000 liters of clean...
OA research in the news: Maier was “one of the key intellectual figures in her field”
Historian Pauline Maier, who wrote award-winning books on 18th-century America, died last month at age 75. Maier had been on the MIT faculty since...
OA research in the news: Fighting crime with math
Crimes like burglary often go unwitnessed, which makes it difficult to predict and prevent a criminal’s future acts. Police analysts scour reports and databases...