The EMERGE program at MIT teaches MITES Saturdays science discovery middle school students how to use scanning electron microscopes, sparking STEM curiosity in underserved communities. | Continue reading
A computational imaging algorithm reveals that ambient light sensors, which are passive components embedded in the screens of smart devices to alter monitor brightness, pose an imaging privacy threat by exposing users’ touch interactions to hackers, MIT researchers find. | Continue reading
High-speed experiments can help identify lightweight, protective “metamaterials” for spacecraft, vehicles, helmets, or other objects. | Continue reading
MIT scientists have identified 18 new tidal disruption events (TDEs) — extreme instances when a nearby star is tidally drawn into a black hole and ripped to shreds. The detections more than double the number of known TDEs in the nearby universe. | Continue reading
Newly offered at MIT last fall, Drawing Human Experience was supported by a cross-disciplinary class development grant from the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology (CAST). It was co-presented by MIT Anthropology and the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery. | Continue reading
Nineteen faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering received awards in Q4 2023 in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Susan Solomon won the 2023 VinFuture Award for Female Innovators in recognition of her contributions to understanding ozone depletion and the creation of the Montreal Protocol. | Continue reading
MIT physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center — a surprise suggesting our galaxy’s gravitational core may have less dark matter than previously thought. | Continue reading
Senga Technologies CEO June Odongo uses MIT OpenCourseWare courses to make high-quality candidates job-ready. Cynthia Wacheke, the first person to complete the program, is now a software developer at Senga. | Continue reading
MIT chemistry students were treated to a performance of "Blue Man Group" that brought to life the chemical structures and crystal field theory concepts covered in class 5.111 (Principles of Chemical Science), taught by Brad Pentelute. | Continue reading
Using tools of geology and genetics, MIT PhD student Fatima Husain investigates the co-evolution of life and Earth and works to communicate science to the public. | Continue reading
Liquid metal printing, developed by MIT researchers, rapidly creates 3D metal structures by depositing molten aluminum along into a bed filled with microscopic glass beads. The process can produce low-resolution objects like frames for chairs and tables in minutes. | Continue reading
MIT Faculty Founder Initiative announces 12 finalists for 2023-24 MIT-Royalty Pharma Prize Competition to support female entrepreneurs in biotech. | Continue reading
MIT Geophysicist William Frank discusses the recent earthquake in Japan off the Noto Peninsula, which is part of an earthquake swarm that started in 2020. These swarms are different than subduction earthquakes and are less understood. | Continue reading
Hundreds of participants from around the world joined the sixth annual MIT Policy Hackathon to develop data-informed policy solutions to challenges in health, housing, and more. | Continue reading
MIT's new Decarbonization Working Group will support efforts to explore game-changing and evolving technologies with the potential to move campuses like MIT away from carbon emissions-based energy systems. | Continue reading
Atacama Biomaterials, a startup co-founded by MIT alumna Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas, combines architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create inexpensive eco-friendly materials from bio-based polymers. | Continue reading
A new method predicts how much flooding a coastal community is likely to experience as hurricanes evolve due to climate change. Using New York as a test case, the model predicts Hurricane Sandy-level flooding will occur roughly every 30 years by 2099. | Continue reading
An MIT model predicts how shoe properties will affect a runner’s performance. The model could be a tool for designers looking to push the boundaries of sneaker design. | Continue reading
Although artificial intelligence in health has shown great promise, pressure is mounting for regulators around the world to act, as AI tools demonstrate potentially harmful outcomes. | Continue reading
Senior and MIT Crew member Tatum Wilhelm balances her chemical engineering and anthropology studies with early mornings on the Charles River. | Continue reading
His wide-ranging and influential career included fundamental discoveries about how visual scenes and stimuli are processed from the retina through the cortical visual system. | Continue reading
The Knight Science Journalism at MIT program’s Victor K. McElheny Award honors outstanding local and regional journalists’ reporting on science, public health, tech, and the environment. | Continue reading
The MIT Media Lab mourns the passing of staff member Elise O'Hara, a cherished member of the MIT community, at age 37. | Continue reading
To make the new entertainment venue a reality, Jared Miller ’98, MBA ’03, SM ’03 assembled a team that reflected his experience at MIT. | Continue reading
The brain’s sensitivity to rewarding experiences — a critical factor in motivation and attention — can be shaped by socioeconomic conditions, according to an MIT study. | Continue reading
A compound originally developed as a cancer treatment may hold promise for treating polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD), which affects more than half a million Americans and can lead to kidney enlargement and loss of function. | Continue reading
Now in its 20th year, MIT Health's annual getfit challenge encourages everyone at the Institute to get moving during the cold months. | Continue reading
MIT Blueprint Labs recently launched a Charter School Research Collaborative to bring together the charter policy, practice, and research communities. The collaborative will foster new partnerships and make research on charter schools more rigorous, actionable, and policy-relevan … | Continue reading
From robotics to dance, MIT senior Baran Mensah has made it his mission to explore as many new experiences as possible at the Institute. | Continue reading
A new way to recover significantly more circulating tumor DNA in a blood sample could improve the sensitivity of liquid biopsies used to detect, monitor, and guide treatment of tumors. | Continue reading
PRISM, developed by MIT CSAIL, is a pancreatic cancer risk prediction model using a vast, federated network of electronic health records from numerous U.S. healthcare organizations. | Continue reading
At the MIT Energy Initiative Fall Colloquium, Shell’s chief technology officer laid out two very different potential paths for the decades ahead. | Continue reading
PhD students Athul Paul Jacob, Maohao Shen, Victor Butoi, and Andi Peng, interning with the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, look to improve natural language usage in AI models so that the AI systems can be more dependable and accurate. | Continue reading
A growing number of studies are showing beneficial clinical effects from noninvasive stimulation of gamma rhythms in the brain, but clinical evidence remains preliminary and animal studies have been instructive, but not definitive. | Continue reading
Some 150 MIT students, including Maia DeMeyer and Em Ball, are MedLinks liaisons who help their classmates with minor medical issues. | Continue reading
MIT chemists developed a battery cathode based on organic materials, which could reduce the EV industry’s reliance on scarce metals. | Continue reading
The six anatomical layers of the mammalian brain cortex show distinct patterns of electrical activity which are consistent throughout the entire cortex and across several animal species, including humans, an MIT study has found. | Continue reading
MIT researchers designed a self-powering, battery-free, energy-harvesting sensor. Using the framework they developed, they produced a temperature sensor that can harvest and store the energy from the magnetic field that exists in the open air around a wire. | Continue reading
An interdisciplinary team of researchers thinks health AI could benefit from some of the aviation industry’s long history of hard-won lessons that have created one of the safest activities today. | Continue reading
The MIT First Generation/Low Income (FLI) Program, part of the Undergraduate Advising Center that provides support for undergraduates who are the first in their family to go to college and/or are low-income, is steadily expanding its programs and services. | Continue reading
John LaBoiteaux Buttrick, a former professor in MIT’s Music and Theater Arts program, prize-winning pianist, and renowned classical musician, died in late November, 2023, in Zurich, Switzerland. He was 88. | Continue reading
The MIT K. Lisa Yang Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Center, founded with a $28 million gift from Lisa Yang, aims to rethink how products and technologies for resource-constrained communities are conceived, designed, and commercialized. | Continue reading
Lt. Col. Jill Rahon is a fourth-year doctoral student studying applied physics at the MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, working on engineering solutions for enforcement of nuclear nonproliferation treaties. | Continue reading
Led by new Chief Officer for Business and Digital Transformation Renaud Fournier, MIT is launching an effort to simplify business operations and systems for its community. | Continue reading
MIT Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate and Graduate Education Ian Waitz discusses the three-year collective bargaining agreement reached with the MIT Graduate Student Union in September 2023. | Continue reading
The MIT AgeLab’s Aging and Equity Speaker Series aims to explore how issues impacting older adults intersect with topics like inclusion and equality. | Continue reading
The Good Jobs Institute, founded by MIT Sloan’s Zeynep Ton, has developed a framework for supporting frontline employees that boosts revenue and improves workers’ lives. | Continue reading