US Pays MIT $3 Millions on Bomb Research

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>See <a href="http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/02/28/us_pays_mit_to_plumb_chemistry_of_iraq_ieds/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2006/02/28/us_pays_mit_to_plumb_chemistry_of_iraq_ieds/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>"...The Pentagon is staking $3 million on a small team of students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to help the military identify new ways of disarming the kind of homemade bombs that insurgents are using to kill and maim US troops in Iraq, according to Defense Department documents and researchers..."</p>

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<p>There are quite a few engineering projects (and a few science projects, I'd assume) at MIT which are funded with DoD or other military money. Like it or not, that's a group of people who are willing to pour generous amounts of money into certain types of science and engineering research.</p>

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<p>oohh. one more reason I wanna go to MIT<br>
;)</p>

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<p>how much money did MIT spend on NASA each year?</p>

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<p>You know, I'm not sure how to find out how much money various government agencies spend on different schools. I know MIT gets quite a bit of money through Draper</a> Labs and other projects. </p>

<p>I'm not sure where a list of funding would be (although I'm sure it's somewhere on the federal government's convoluted mess of websites).</p>