Hanna Adeyema and Carolina Haass-Koffler discuss the substance use disorder crisis and the future of innovation in the field. | Continue reading
The night of festivities featured students showcasing their startups’ progress, along with a lively reception. | Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars enhance community through engagement with MIT students and faculty. | Continue reading
Faculty members granted tenure in anthropology; comparative media studies/writing; philosophy; political science; and science, technology, and society. | Continue reading
MIT researchers investigate the neural circuits that underlie placebos’ ability to relieve chronic and acute pain. | Continue reading
Members of MIT’s School of Engineering were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence in the spring of 2024. | Continue reading
Through MIT’s 2N Program and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, active duty naval officers gain the technical skills they need to lead projects in the Navy. | Continue reading
The MIT Electric Vehicle Team, Sustainable Engine Team, Solar Electric Vehicle Team, Motorsports Team, First Nations Launch Team, and Arcturus are each doing their part to improve the health of our planet. | Continue reading
New STUDIO.nano supports artistic research and encounters within MIT.nano’s facilities. | Continue reading
“ScribblePrompt” is an interactive AI framework that can efficiently highlight anatomical structures across different medical scans, assisting medical workers to delineate regions of interest and abnormalities. | Continue reading
In animal models, even low stimulation currents can sometimes still cause electrographic seizures, researchers found. | Continue reading
For Sarah Sterling, the new director of the Cryo-Electron Microscopy facility at MIT.nano, better planning and more communication leads to better science. | Continue reading
Physicists capture images of ultracold atoms flowing freely, without friction, in an exotic “edge state.” | Continue reading
Membranes based on natural silk and cellulose can remove many contaminants, including “forever chemicals” and heavy metals. | Continue reading
MIT PhD student Allan Shtofenmakher wants to keep space sustainable. | Continue reading
Computer scientist who specializes in database management systems joins the leadership of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. | Continue reading
“He dived deep, even into cold water, but came out stronger and brought along others for a joyous adventure.” | Continue reading
Lightwave electronics aim to integrate optical and electronic systems at incredibly high speeds, leveraging the ultrafast oscillations of light fields. | Continue reading
Assistant Professor Richard Teague describes how movement of unstable gas in a protoplanetary disk lends credibility to a secondary theory of planetary formation. | Continue reading
With $45 million in support from the Stanton Foundation, the program will expand its longstanding leadership in a critical area of global security. | Continue reading
The researchers identified an atomic-level interaction that prevents peptide bonds from being broken down by water. | Continue reading
The spending increases were particularly pronounced for businesses within 100 yards of charging stations, and for businesses in low-income areas. | Continue reading
PhD student Oscar Molina seeks new ways to assemble proteins into targeted cancer therapies, while also encouraging his fellow first-generation graduate students. | Continue reading
Building a drone for the first time, the MIT First Nations Launch team excelled in designing a scientific payload to deploy from a rocket and landing it safely. | Continue reading
Professors Mariya Grinberg and Nuh Gedik are honored as “Committed to Caring.” | Continue reading
Mechatronics combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design. | Continue reading
Researchers developed an easy-to-use tool that enables an AI practitioner to find data that suits the purpose of their model, which could improve accuracy and reduce bias. | Continue reading
Charalampos Sampalis explores all that MIT Open Learning has to offer while growing his career in Athens, Greece. | Continue reading
MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs, | Continue reading
A new algorithm solves complicated partial differential equations by breaking them down into simpler problems, potentially guiding computer graphics and geometry processing. | Continue reading
MD/PhD student Sayo Eweje seeks to develop new technologies for delivering RNA and protein therapies directly to the body’s cells. | Continue reading
Saeed Miganeh’s work at MIT is helping him answer important questions about designing effective programs for poverty mitigation and economic growth in African countries. | Continue reading
The senior strategic sourcing analyst is responsible for everything related to travel and hospitality that involves purchasing at MIT. | Continue reading
The three-day, hands-on conference hosted by the MIT RAISE Initiative welcomed youths and adults from nearly 30 countries. | Continue reading
“Empathy and respect are central values here,” Kornbluth tells MIT’s newest students and their families at the President’s Convocation. | Continue reading
In language-processing areas of the brain, some cell populations respond to one word, while others respond to strings of words. | Continue reading
By unraveling the genetic pathways that help Toxoplasma gondii persist in human cells, Sebastian Lourido hopes to find new ways to treat toxoplasmosis. | Continue reading
A new family of integrated rock salt-polyanion cathodes opens door to low-cost, high-energy storage. | Continue reading
Building on a landmark algorithm, researchers propose a way to make a smaller and more noise-tolerant quantum factoring circuit for cryptography. | Continue reading
Amulya Aluru ’23, MEng ’24 and the MIT Spokes have spent the summer spreading science, over 3,000 miles on two wheels. | Continue reading
Rising senior and Army ROTC cadet Alexander Edwards and Aneal Krishnan ’02 discuss a new UROP fellowship with the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies. | Continue reading
With extensive international outreach experience as a faculty member and program leader, Boning brings a spirit of curiosity and collaboration to his new role. | Continue reading
Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill provides an update on MIT’s newest incoming class. | Continue reading
Fasting helps intestinal stem cells regenerate and heal injuries but also leads to a higher risk of cancer in mice, MIT researchers report. | Continue reading
The first comprehensive model of rotor aerodynamics could improve the way turbine blades and wind farms are designed and how wind turbines are controlled. | Continue reading
Professor Ellen Roche is creating the next generation of medical devices to help repair hearts, lungs, and other tissues. | Continue reading
Sophie Hartley wants to help people learn about the importance of natural resources and land management through science writing. | Continue reading
The convoluted “legalese” used in legal documents conveys a special sense of authority, and even non-lawyers have learned to wield it. | Continue reading