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1. MIT students take top prizes in national inventors' contest

Two MIT students won top honors this week in the 2008 Collegiate Inventors Competition, one of the most prestigious honors available to college and university innovators.

2. Michael Cusumano on letting U.S. automakers fail

In the first installment of "3 Questions" Michael Cusumano, the Sloan Management Review Professor in Management in the MIT Sloan School of Management, discusses why U.S. automakers should be allowed to fail and what it will take for them to become viable again.

3. Legatum Center announces IAP Seed Grants

Are you an aspiring entrepreneur who is interested in the role of the private sector in the developing world? Applications are now being accepted for a seed grant from the Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT and turn these ideas into reality.

4. Sloan students are finalists in X-Prize video contest

A video clip made by three graduate students in MIT's Sloan School of Management is one of three finalists in a competition for ideas for a new environmental X Prize to be offered in the future.

5. Q&A with Information Technology VP Jerry Grochow

MIT Vice President for Information Services and Technology Jerrold "Jerry" Grochow shares his insights about the Institute's changing computing infrastructure and how it will benefit the community.

6. Awards and Honors

Recent achievements by members of the MIT community.

7. Promoting diversity

Hundreds of academic, administrative and student leaders gathered on Tuesday, Nov. 18 for the first Diversity Leadership Congress, which aimed to accelerate efforts at promoting diversity and inclusion across MIT.

8. Photo exhibit highlights water wheel history, design

MIT postdoctoral fellow Adriana de Miranda of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture will exhibit significant photos of water-wheels in Syrian and Chinese landscapes at the Rotch Library Gallery on Nov. 25 through Dec. 16.

9. Media Lab creates Center for Future Storytelling

The MIT Media Laboratory today announced the creation of the Center for Future Storytelling. This seven-year, $25 million collaboration will revolutionize how we tell stories, from major motion pictures to peer-to-peer multimedia sharing.

10. Margaret Zarudny Freeman, touched many over long MIT career

Margaret Zarudny Freeman SM '34, who spent more than four decades at MIT as a student and staff member, died Oct. 23, just weeks before her 100th birthday.