tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218821080 2007-12-17 14:10:43 -0500 MIT Museum Researchers at MIT's <a href="http://cehs.mit.edu/">Center for Environmental Health Sciences</a> probe the relationship between genetics and environment in the development of illnesses such as lung cancer. A video produced by <a href="http://web.mit.edu/amps/">AMPS/MIT Libraries</a> for the MIT Museum's classroom/exhibit, <a href="http://web.mit.edu/museum/exhibitions/thecell.html">"Learning Lab: The Cell."</a> 273 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218759040 2009-04-07 09:57:33 -0400 SDM MIT's System Design and Management (SDM) Program requires each student to research and write a master’s thesis that addresses a real-world problem using an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates tools from engineering, management, and social sciences. SDM annually presents the Best Thesis Award to the student whose work most exemplifies this interdisciplinary approach. The 2008 award went to David Kim, whose thesis address generation gaps in engineering. 217 tag:techtv.mit.edu,:Array/218692980 2009-08-14 09:24:26 -0400 MIT Comparative Media Studies <p>This year's Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently entered the motion picture arena, writing the period drama Changeling for Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie, adapting such books as Lensman for Ron Howard, World War Z for Brad Pitt’s company, and They Marched Into Sunlight for Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass, as well as reviving Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. and selling two new original movies, The Flickering Light and Proving Ground to Universal and Tom Cruise's United Artists, respectively. He has also begun work on Last Words, a pilot for a new TV series for the TNT network.</p> <p>Previously known best for his role as the creator of the cult science fiction series Babylon 5 and its various spin-off films and series. Straczynski wrote 92 out of the 110 Babylon 5 episodes, notably including an unbroken 59-episode run through all of the third and fourth seasons, and all but one episode of the fifth season.</p> <p>His early television writing career spans from work on He-Man, She-Ra, and The Real Ghostbusters through to The New Twilight Zone and Murder She Wrote. He followed up Babylon 5 with the science fiction series Jeremiah.</p> <p>Straczysnki also enjoys continued success as a comic book writer, working on established superhero franchises, such as The Amazing Spider-Man, Supreme Power and Thor, as well as his own original series, such as Rising Stars, Midnight Nation, The Twelve, and The Book of Lost Souls. He is also a journalist, publishing over 500 articles in such periodicals as the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Writer’s Digest Magazine, and TIME Inc.</p> <p>He was one of the first television producers to actively engage his fan community online and has consistently explored the interface between digital media and other storytelling platforms.</p> 7666