[Editors] Visual research: THANKS

[Elizabeth Thomson]

Hello, Everyone

Many thanks to all of you who sent me ideas for especially visual MIT 
research. The Business Week reporter was floored by the suggestions I 
sent along. "I feel like a kid in a candy shop," he said.

Since the story will feature innovation from around the US, however, 
he can only have a max of two photos per institution. Here are the 
two he chose from MIT:

--The Levitated Dipole Experiment (LDX) at the Plasma Science and 
Fusion Center. Basically LDX reminds one of a UFO; it's main visual 
component is a huge silver circular compartment some 20 feet across. 
The research itself involves a new way to achieve nuclear fusion as 
an energy source. And the researchers are getting ready to "flick the 
switch" on the thing later this summer.

--The Picower Center for Learning and Memory, led by Nobel laureate 
Susumu Tonegawa. My News Office colleague Patti Richards is 
organizing a tour, which will include a variety of visual elements.

As I mentioned in my first note, the News Office itself is always 
interested in learning about especially visual (or just really cool!) 
research, so I've saved all of your responses. And, as always, feel 
free to keep 'em coming!

Elizabeth
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Elizabeth A. Thomson
Assistant Director, Science & Engineering News
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
News Office, Room 11-400
77 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge, MA  02139-4307
617-258-5402 (ph); 617-258-8762 (fax)
<thomson at mit.edu>

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