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Search results for "Massachusetts Institute of Technology" ...
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"No Means No"
This investigation, part of a nationwide collaboration that was led by the Center for Public Integrity, revealed that University of Massachusetts-Amherst officials often failed to take disciplinary action against students accused or found guilty of sexual assault. Reporters found that in a four-year period, "240 sexual assaults" were reported "to campus security," and only "four students were expelled." This report also found that many women who reported the assault often dropped the accusation.
Tags: sexual assault; harassment; New England; Amherst; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; U.S. Department of Justice; database; public records request; Office of Violence against Women
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Bose and Arrows. MIT seeds inventions but wants a nice cut of profits they yield. It is jousting with a son of audio-making family over the use of a patent. Income source for university.
This article talks about how students at MIT often create inventions as part of their PhD program. As a result, MIT then owns the patent/rights to their invention, but now some students are upset they've lost ownership of their work.
Tags: MIT; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; students; education; patents; inventions; copyright; ownership; college; universities
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MIT's Media Lab, a Media Darling, Seeks Global Role and New Missions
The Chronicle of Higher Education looks at the "quirky practices in research and financing" used by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology' Media Laboratory. The story focuses on the effort "to clone the Media Lab around the globe." It reveals that many of the international projects have been given up or failed. The article examines the pros and cons of the lab's continual contract with 170 corporate sponsors.
Tags: MIT; colleges; universities; academia; journalism; research; sponsors; students; faculty