A new onboarding technique from MIT can help humans collaborate more effectively with AI assistants. The process finds situations where the human either over-trusts or under-trusts the AI, describing these as natural language rules, and creates training exercises based on these r … | Continue reading
MIT alumnus Hong Ru, who graduated in 2010 with the Master of Finance program’s inaugural class with his wife, Juno Wei Chen, returned to MIT Sloan to teach the next generation of students. | Continue reading
Two MIT students, Anna Kwon and Nicole Doering, have been awarded Jane Matlaw Environmental Champion Awards by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The students were recognized for their sustainability work as summer interns as part of the PKG Center for Public Service’s Social … | Continue reading
MIT researchers devised a machine-learning-based method to investigate how materials behave at their surfaces. The approach could help in developing compounds or alloys for use as catalysts, semiconductors, or battery components. | Continue reading
The 2023 Global Change Outlook presents the MIT Joint Program’s latest projections for the future of the Earth’s energy, food, water and climate systems under existing global climate policies and those aligned with capping global warming at 1.5 C. | Continue reading
During 18 years of leadership, Evans established new R&D mission areas, strengthened ties to the MIT community, and increased inclusion and education efforts | Continue reading
MIT chemists have now come up with a way to make molecules known as acenes more stable, allowing them to synthesize acenes of varying lengths. Using their new approach, they were able to build molecules that emit red, orange, yellow, green, or blue light, which could make acenes … | Continue reading
Through volunteer work and other activities, the Women’s League has played an impactful role at MIT for more than a century. | Continue reading
Researchers from MIT and ETZ Zurich have developed a new, data-driven machine-learning technique that speeds up software programs used to solve complex optimization problems that can have millions of potential solutions. Their approach could be applied to many complex logistical … | Continue reading
New MIT research shows that human microglia with the R47H/+ mutation in the TREM2 protein exhibit several deficits related to Alzheimer’s pathology. Mutant microglia are prone to inflammation, yet are worse at responding to neuron injury and less able to clear harmful debris, inc … | Continue reading
On Nov. 14, MIT President Sally Kornbluth launched a community-driven initiative, Standing Together Against Hate (STAH). Chancellor Melissa Nobles spoke with MIT News about the early efforts she is seeing — both at the grassroots level and institutionally — in support of this eff … | Continue reading
In her new book, “Seizing Control,” MITES grant writer Laura Beretsky details her experience with epilepsy and offers lessons for creating a welcoming work environment for people with disabilities. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Benedetto Marelli develops silk-based technologies with uses “from lab to fork,” including helping crops grow and preserving perishable foods. | Continue reading
MIT faculty researchers explain glycoscience, a rapidly growing field broadly applicable to not just to biology and chemistry but also to bioengineering, medicine, materials science, and more. | Continue reading
The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature brings six centuries of classic texts to the world, in bilingual editions. | Continue reading
An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years. | Continue reading
Researchers from MIT and Mass General Brigham developed a gel-based platform for local delivery of drugs into tumors that promises to help treat metastatic cancer. | Continue reading
MIT Institute Professor Phillip Sharp and MIT Press Director Amy Brand discuss a white paper on the future of open-access publishing in academia. | Continue reading
Clocks, lasers, and other oscillators could be tuned to super-quantum precision, allowing researchers to track infinitesimally small differences in time, according to a new MIT study. | Continue reading
As part of MIT’s Generative AI Week, artist Refik Anadol and MIT faculty members shared their work using the new technology in art, finance, health care, transportation, and other industries. | Continue reading
MIT faculty members, including keynote speaker Rodney Brooks, discussed the power and potential pitfalls of generative AI tools like ChatGPT at the “Generative AI: Shaping the Future” Symposium, the kickoff event of the Institute’s Generative AI Week. | Continue reading
MIT Professor Elly Nedivi has been honored with the Krieg Cortical Kudos Discoverer Award for her ongoing work to understand molecular and cellular mechanisms that enable the brain to adapt to experience. | Continue reading
The MIT AgeLab awarded five OMEGA scholarships to high school students across the United States who led or developed intergenerational programs — initiatives designed to bring together younger and older people — in their communities. | Continue reading
Morgane König is a postdoc in theoretical cosmology at MIT and at Dartmouth College and is a 2023 MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. Her research focuses on the study of the universe as a whole, from the era of inflation to the present. | Continue reading
Under the aegis of the Science Policy Initiative, 22 MIT students visited federal agencies including the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Department of Energy, NASA, Advanced Research Projects Agency-Health, the EPA, and the NSF to discuss science policy issue … | Continue reading
A new method allows scientists to label and image many different molecules at once within a living cell. The technique, developed at MIT, relies on “switchable fluorophores” — fluorescent proteins that turn on and off at a specific rate. | Continue reading
The MIT Game Lab helps students think critically about the games they’ve often been playing for years, and prepares them to engage in thoughtful design practices themselves. | Continue reading
The Nano Summit highlights nanoscale research across multiple disciplines at MIT. | Continue reading
"Race Place and Modernity in the Americas" is a three-week immersive course held in Brazil where students study how art and cultural activism can impact racial justice and environmental issues. | Continue reading
A team of MIT researchers has demonstrated a way to precisely control the size, composition, and other properties of nanoparticles key to the reactions involved in a variety of clean energy and environmental technologies. | Continue reading
At the 2023 Wulff Lecture, MIT alumna Sossina Haile described her pursuit of a sustainable future with green hydrogen, advancing renewable energy and addressing climate change through innovative fuel cell technology. | Continue reading
MIT atomic physicist Richard Fletcher has been named a 2023 Packard Fellow for Science and Engineering. MIT alumni Ritchie Chen and Yang Yang were also named. | Continue reading
A new technique enables an AI agent to be guided by data crowdsourced asynchronously from nonexpert human users as it learns to complete a task through reinforcement learning. The method trains the robot faster and better than other approaches. | Continue reading
A new search algorithm has identified 188 kinds of new CRISPR systems in bacterial genomes. The systems have a range of functions and could enable gene editing, diagnostics, and more. | Continue reading
Malick Ghachem spoke at MIT’s “Dialogues across Differences” lecture series about university politics and whether colleges can or should be “neutral” on civic and global matters. | Continue reading
For MIT student Liberty Ladd, who studies political science and mechanical engineering while participating in ROTC, systematic change starts with personal actions. After serving in the Air Force, she hopes to become a policymaker working on issues such as voting rights and servic … | Continue reading
The Kennedy Scholarship program, overseen by the Kennedy Memorial Trust, a UK charity, has kept the ideals of Kennedy’s presidency alive by sending generations of British students to Massachusetts to study tuition-free at MIT and Harvard University since 1966. More than 570 UK ci … | Continue reading
At the first-ever MIT Ignite: Generative AI Entrepreneurship Competition, 12 teams of MIT students and postdocs presented their ideas for startups that utilize generative AI technologies to develop solutions across a diverse range of disciplines. | Continue reading
Passionate about materials science “from the atom to the system,” Elsa Olivetti brings a holistic approach to sustainability to her teaching, research, and coalition-building. | Continue reading
The Civil Discourse initiative includes two components: the speaker series open to the MIT community, and seminars where students can discuss freedom of expression and develop skills for successfully engaging in civil discourse. Steve Koonin and Kerry Emanuel discussed “Climate C … | Continue reading
MIT Professor Jörn Dunkel and alumnus Surya Ganguli received the 2023 Schmidt Science Polymath award, while Professor Josh Tenenbaum was named a Schmidt Futures’ AI2050 Senior Fellows. | Continue reading
The Graduate Student Coaching Program teaches students the “coaching mindset” to help them reach their personal and professional goals. | Continue reading
MIT student Gitanjali Rao was honored by First Lady Jill Biden at the first Girls Leading Change celebration held at the White House. Rao, a first-year undergraduate, is an accomplished inventor and author. | Continue reading
MIT researchers have developed StableRep, an AI training method using synthetic images generated by text-to-image models, which surpasses traditional training on real images. The approach leverages multi-positive contrastive learning, promising more efficient, less biased, and re … | Continue reading
A study by MIT philosopher Kevin Dorst explores how people might rationally come to hold very different views about some political matters. | Continue reading
At the "Heritage Meets Heritage" event held in MIT’s Bush Room on Oct. 19, students made cultural connections, answered trivia questions, and enjoyed global delicacies. | Continue reading
At the Clean Energy Education and Empowerment symposium and awards, participants rallied to beat the clock on climate change. The conference is part of the C3E Initiative, which aims to connect women in clean energy, recognize the accomplishments of leaders across different field … | Continue reading
Award recognizes professor's synaptic plasticity research, its translation to potential amblyopia and autism treatments, and his career of mentorship. | Continue reading