For the 13th straight year, MIT's School of Engineering is ranked tops in the nation by US News and World Report. MIT Professor Emeritus Clifford G. Shull, co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1994, died on March 31 at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Medford, MA, following a brief illness. A three-day conference to celebrate the accomplishments of minorities using digital technologies will be presented by researchers in MIT's Program in Comparative Media Studies and USC's Annenberg Center for Communication from April 27 through April 29, 2001. Thanks, in part, to early support from the cable television pioneer Ted Turner, WMBR will celebrate 40 years of non-commercial FM radio at MIT on April 10. After more than a decade of disagreement in the scientific community, the quark is finally accepted as a basic building block of nature, said Professor Jerome I. Friedman in the 2001 James R. Killian Jr. lecture.
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