The physical organic chemist and MIT professor for over 40 years is celebrated for his lasting impact on generations of chemists. | Continue reading
Professor of media technology honored for research in human-computer interaction that is considered both fundamental and influential. | Continue reading
ADEPT brings together universities, governments, and other members to empower the next generation of policymakers with the tools to innovate, test, and scale effective public policies and programs. | Continue reading
The MIT-GE Vernova Energy and Climate Alliance includes research, education, and career opportunities across the Institute. | Continue reading
Scientists have found that trees in cities respond to higher temperatures differently than those in forests, potentially masking climate impacts. | Continue reading
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia. | Continue reading
In a new class, students design, build, and test an electric rocket engine turbopump, facing challenges they will experience as practicing engineers. | Continue reading
Mechanical metamaterials research demands interdisciplinary collaboration and innovation, say researchers from MechE's Portela Lab. | Continue reading
The American Association for the Advancement of Science recognizes six current affiliates and 27 additional MIT alumni for their efforts to advance science and related fields. | Continue reading
EduFi, founded by an MIT alumna, provides low-interest student loans to families in Pakistan so more can attend college. | Continue reading
On the physics faculty for nearly 40 years and a member of the Center for Theoretical Physics, he focused on the interactions of hadrons and developed an R-matrix formulation of scattering theory. | Continue reading
A new international collaboration unites MIT and maritime industry leaders to develop nuclear propulsion technologies, alternative fuels, data-powered strategies for operation, and more. | Continue reading
MIT Sloan’s Christopher Palmer has produced new insights about household finance, thanks to razor-sharp empirical studies. | Continue reading
MIT entered the event ranked as the top team in the country and came away with three individual national titles and four relay titles. | Continue reading
The Tactile Vega-Lite system, developed at MIT CSAIL, streamlines the tactile chart design process; could help educators efficiently create these graphics and aid designers in making precise changes. | Continue reading
With the new system, farmers could significantly cut their use of pesticides and fertilizers, saving money and reducing runoff. | Continue reading
Investment in analytics may also benefit college teams and fields beyond sports, a new study shows. | Continue reading
Events connected the MIT community through exhibitions, performances, interactive installations, and more. | Continue reading
Using tech tools and a human touch, Arthur Bahr sheds light on the original volume containing “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” and “Pearl.” | Continue reading
The findings could help planners design safer, more efficient pedestrian thoroughfares. | Continue reading
New global headquarters will further solidify the company’s pioneering role in the Kendall Square innovation ecosystem. | Continue reading
With tinier needles and fewer injections, the approach may enable new options for long-term delivery of contraceptives or treatments for diseases such as HIV. | Continue reading
The research may enable the design of synthetic, light-activated cells for wound healing or drug delivery. | Continue reading
MIT researchers developed a photon-shuttling “interconnect” that can facilitate remote entanglement, a key step toward a practical quantum computer. | Continue reading
Researchers fuse the best of two popular methods to create an image generator that uses less energy and can run locally on a laptop or smartphone. | Continue reading
Launched by MIT Sea Grant, SeaPerch and SeaPerch II have had a big impact on young learners interested in ocean science and engineering. | Continue reading
An MIT faculty member for 40 years, Grodzins performed groundbreaking studies of the weak interaction, led in detection technology, and co-founded the Union of Concerned Scientists. | Continue reading
By studying cellular enzymes that perform difficult reactions, MIT chemist Dan Suess hopes to find new solutions to global energy challenges. | Continue reading
Stuart Levine ’97, director of MIT’s BioMicro Center, keeps departmental researchers at the forefront of systems biology. | Continue reading
First responders worldwide adopt Lincoln Laboratory's Next-Generation Incident Command System for enhanced situational awareness and coordination during emergencies. | Continue reading
MIT researchers crafted a new approach that could allow anyone to run operations on encrypted data without decrypting it first. | Continue reading
In his 17 years as dean, Schmittlein led the transformation of MIT Sloan into a management school uniquely positioned for the future and “the best version of its distinctive self.” | Continue reading
As artificial intelligence develops, we must ask vital questions about ourselves and our society, Ben Vinson III contends in the 2025 Compton Lecture. | Continue reading
“Xstrings” method enables users to produce cable-driven objects, automatically assemble bionic robots, sculptures, and dynamic fashion designs. | Continue reading
A new study finds natural and invented languages elicit similar responses in the brain’s language-processing network. | Continue reading
The system uses reconfigurable electromechanical building blocks to create structural electronics. | Continue reading
With 49 points, MIT bests 61 other teams; senior Alexis Boykin wins shot put and weight throw national titles. | Continue reading
In MIT’s 2025 Killian Lecture, physicist John Joannopoulos recounts highlights from a career at the vanguard of photonics research and innovation. | Continue reading
Professor Emeritus Olivier Blanchard PhD ’77, Jordi Galí PhD ’89, and Michael Woodford PhD ’83 are honored for work on macroeconomic analysis and policy. | Continue reading
MIT engineers developed a way to grow artificial tissues that look and act like their natural counterparts. | Continue reading
A decade of studies provide a growing evidence base that increasing the power of the brain’s gamma rhythms could help fight Alzheimer’s, and perhaps other neurological diseases. | Continue reading
A new analysis suggests our language capacity existed at least 135,000 years ago, with language used widely perhaps 35,000 years after that. | Continue reading
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis. | Continue reading
The Exo 2 programming language enables reusable scheduling libraries external to compilers. | Continue reading
A new, highly efficient process for performing this conversion could make it easier to develop therapies for spinal cord injuries or diseases like ALS. | Continue reading
MIT professors Paloma Duong, Frank Schilbach, and Justin Steil are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching. | Continue reading
U.S. Air Force engineer and PhD student Randall Pietersen is using AI and next-generation imaging technology to detect pavement damage and unexploded munitions. | Continue reading
The 19th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference spotlighted a thriving industry. Here are a handful of ideas for getting ahead in it. | Continue reading