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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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1 MIT has been nominally coeducational since admitting ________ in 1870.

2 [220][221] In late 2001 a task force's recommended improvements in student ________ services were implemented,[222][223] including expanding staff and operating hours at the mental health center.

3 [157] Professor ________ was one of the principal leaders of the Human Genome Project.

4 Where does Massachusetts Institute of Technology come from?

5 [225] MIT faculty members past or present have won a total of 27 ________, the majority in Economics or Physics.

6 What are the colours of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

7 [j] MIT established a Washington Office in 1991 to continue to ________ for research funding and national science policy.

8 What type is thing is Massachusetts Institute of Technology?

9 What state is Massachusetts Institute of Technology associated with?

10 Which of the following titles did Massachusetts Institute of Technology have?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • in 1962, Peter Samson and fellow students at MIT built T-Square, an early drafting program and ancestor of CAD (pictured) software?
  • in 2009 two MIT students made a vehicle to take pictures of the Earth from 93,000 feet (28,000 m) for US$148?
  • pioneering research on time-temperature canning conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology by Samuel Cate Prescott was never patented?
  • the word ecology was coined by Ellen Swallow Richards, the first woman admitted to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
  • after Harvard was defeated in the 1921 Centre vs. Harvard football game—one of the greatest upsets in college football history—MIT students celebrated the win by tearing down Harvard's goalposts?
  • David Gross and Alan Kotok built Expensive Tape Recorder, a digital audio program that ran on MIT's TX-0 computer circa 1960?
  • George Keverian won election as a 21-year-old to the Common Council of Everett, Massachusetts, in 1954 using a new MIT high-speed camera to create individualized fliers for each voter?
  • Marilee Jones, the disgraced former dean of admissions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was called "the guru of the movement to tame the college-admissions frenzy" by The New York Times?
  • Martin Demaine founded the first one-man art glass studio in Canada and home-schooled his son Erik to become MIT's youngest ever professor despite not having a college degree himself?
  • William Lyman Underwood worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology without pay from 1899 until his 1929 death to focus on bacteriology research?
  • Florence Luscomb, one of the first women to earn an architecture degree from MIT, later left that field to become a full-time women's suffrage activist?
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