MIT Senior Technical Instructor Dick Perdichizzi prepares a lifesize model of a prehistoric four-winged bird-like creature for testing in Aero-Astro's Wright Brothers Wind Tunnel. The model is based on fossils discovered in China. Aerodynamicists and paleontologists from the United States and China, along with a crew from the PBS Nova program, descended on the MIT facility last summer, experimenting with the articulated model to see if and how it might have flown. The resulting program, 'The Four-Winged Dinosaur' first aired Feb 26. Photo / William Litant
For the past 50 years, the Coast Guard has nominated a senior officer to apply to the MIT Sloan Fellows MBA program. “When you leave MIT Sloan, you want to change the world,” says one alumnus.
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