Microbial manufacturing
Engineered bacteria produce rare and commercially useful compounds in large quantities.
Professor Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin SM ’98 named to National Inventors Hall of Fame
Akamai founders honored for applying algorithms to solve web congestion.
Celebrating Pauline Morrow Austin, a founder of radar meteorology
MIT faculty, friends, and family gathered to remember Austin's life and commemorate her contributions to science with the unveiling of an exhibit in EAPS.
Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty
Adib is directing a new research group at the Media Lab, aiming to uncover, analyze, and engineer natural and human-made networks.
In London, a celebration of MIT’s innovative spirit and growing European community
The Better World series will continue in Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Washington.
Smart city fixtures
Startup brings solar-powered, phone-charging park benches and digital signs to cities worldwide.
StartMIT’s Innovation Night
Innovators from a range of fields discuss their pioneering work and their founders’ journey.
Academic All-Americans
MIT is second in the nation in Academic All-American accolades, which recognize scholarship and athletic excellence.
Building the mountain bike of wheelchairs
An MIT professor helped turn a class project into a mass-produced product that is helping people in developing countries.
Two from MIT share National Academy of Engineering Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize
Professor James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson SM '84, and collaborators lauded for optical coherence tomography.
MIT in London
The city offers an ideal home for MIT alumni whose work spans disciplines and continents.
Inspired by radiation
Nuclear scientist Michael Short aims to understand the full range of defects produced when materials are exposed to radiation.
At least 30 from MIT named to 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 lists
Students, faculty, staff, and alumni honored in "the most definitive gathering of today’s leading young change-makers and innovators."