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A typist wears a mask in New York during the 'Spanish flu' influenza pandemic of 1918. A new study by MIT graduate student Peter Doshi finds that death rates in pandemic seasons were no higher than--and were sometimes exceeded by--those for severe nonpandemic seasons.

Study challenges notion of 'pandemic' flu

CDC-labeled pandemics no deadlier than seasonal influenza

April 11, 2008

Ford International Professor of History and Pulitzer Prize winner John Dower delivers the Killian lecture at Kirsch Auditorium on Monday, April 7.

Dower probes 'cultures of war' in Killian award lecture

April 9, 2008

From left, MIT freshman Daniel Sauza, sophomore Stephanie Brown and seniors Ceryen Tan and Joyce Chen (in mask) work with materials science and nuclear engineering professor Linn Hobbs to cover limestone blocks with mortar as they build up their pyramid on the sixth floor of Building 16.

Gathering 'concrete' evidence

MIT class explores controversial pyramid theory with scale model

April 2, 2008

Dower to deliver Killian Award lecture April 7

April 2, 2008

Theodore Lilienthal's photos, examined in a new book by MIT's Gary Van Zante, presented post-war New Orleans businesses as good investment opportunities, bustling yet orderly. Pictured here is the Drummond & Doig Foundry. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('nola-boiler-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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Looking back at the Big Easy

April 1, 2008

Professor of Archeology and Ancient Technology Dorothy Hosler, back left on the raft, helps row a raft built by four of her students in 2004. Leslie Dewan, standing, recently worked with Hosler to show how similar rafts carried goods through the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans.

Floating a big idea

MIT demonstrates pre-Columbian use of rafts to transport goods

March 19, 2008

'Four-winged dinosaur' soars in MIT wind tunnel

March 6, 2008

Broken amphoras amid debris on the Aegean seafloor.

Cask from the past

Team IDs ancient cargo from DNA

October 29, 2007

Ben Wood, a second-year graduate student in visual arts in the Department of Architecture, with some of his notes on Diego Rivera's mural "Man at the Crossroads."

Grad student revives Rivera's 1933 mural

June 13, 2007

McNally's images bring history eye-level

May 23, 2007

Jacobs receives Levitan Prize in the Humanities

April 6, 2007

William Dalrymple discussed his latest book. "The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857" on the last Mughal imperial court, that of Bahadur Shah Zafar II, shown above.

'Last Mughal' author discusses Great Mutiny's toll

April 5, 2007

Meg Jacobs of the MIT History section makes a point during a recent colloquium about the 1970s oil crisis.

Seventies oil crisis was a 'perfect storm' for U.S.

March 23, 2007

'In Cod We Trust' explores how weather, fish, people and faith interplayed

March 6, 2007

Miranda Knutson, who graduated from the history program at MIT last spring, pins a hood being fitted for Tim Abbott, a senior in mathematics and electrical engineering and computer science. The two were participants in an MIT IAP class on the technology of medieval clothes creation. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('medieval-hood-enlarged.html','','width=509, height=583')">
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IAP 'Distaff Arts' students learn production, politics of medieval wool clothing

January 30, 2007

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