MIT School of Science
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The MIT School of Science is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The school is composed of 6 academic departments and grants S.B., S.M., and the Ph.D. or Sc.D degrees. The current Dean of Engineering is Professor Marc A. Kastner. With approximately 300 faculty members, 1200 graduate students, 1000 undergraduate majors, the school is the second largest at MIT. 16 faculty members and 16 alumni of the school have won Nobel Prizes.[1]
[edit] Biology
The Department of Biology (Course VII) began as a department of natural history in 1871.
[edit] Brain and Cognitive Sciences
The Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (Course IX) began as the Department of Psychology in 1964.[2]
[edit] Chemistry
The Department of Chemistry {Course V) was one of the original departments when MIT opened in 1865.[3]
[edit] Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
The Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Course XII) was formed from the 1983 merger of the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Department of Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, the former tracing its origins back to the first geology courses taught at MIT in 1865.[4]
[edit] Mathematics
The Department of Mathematics (Course XVIII)
[edit] Physics
The Department of Physics (Course VIII)
[edit] Affiliated laboratories and centers
- See also: List of MIT laboratories
[edit] Bates Linear Accelerator
[edit] Center for Cancer Research
[edit] Center for Global Change Science
[edit] Earth Resources Laboratory (ERL)
[edit] Experimental Study Group
[edit] Laboratory for Nuclear Science
[edit] McGovern Institute for Brain Research
[edit] MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics & Space Research
[edit] Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
[edit] Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate
[edit] Spectroscopy Laboratory
[edit] George R. Wallace, Jr. Astrophysical Observatory
[edit] References
- ^ About MIT's School of Science. MIT. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
- ^ About BCS/History. MIT. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
- ^ MIT Chemistry: History of the Department. MIT. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
- ^ MIT EAPS: History. MIT. Retrieved on 2007-08-13.
