Scene at MIT: Ellen Swallow Richards leads the Women's Laboratory
A trailblazing industrial and environmental chemist, Ellen Swallow Richards was MIT’s first female graduate and first female instructor.
A trailblazing industrial and environmental chemist, Ellen Swallow Richards was MIT’s first female graduate and first female instructor.
A bio-inspired gel material developed at MIT could help engineers control movements of soft robots.
MIT ranked within the top 5 for 19 of 46 subject areas.
Award will fund a 12-month project to study the implementation of wheelchair sensors in Indonesia.
A recent meeting on the MIT campus laid the foundation for better coordination of global research relating to cement and sustainability.
TREX program from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offers undergraduates the opportunity to get out in the field.
MIT professor in architecture and engineering will serve three-year term.
New members have made advances in artificial skin, wireless communications, nanotechnology, hydrology, and cancer treatment.
Panamanian delegates participating in the U.S. Trade and Development Agency Global Procurement Initiative visited MIT to learn about life-cycle cost analysis models.
Made from hydrogel, robots may one day assist in surgical operations, evade underwater detection.
Jesse Kroll examines how pollutants change chemically as they waft around the globe.
Institute Professor Penny Chisholm teams up with author and illustrator Molly Bang to write environmental children’s book series.
As camps swell, change:WATER Labs aims to bring toilets into individual homes.
Collaboration will explore ways of working with natural systems to address climate change.
MIT researchers are helping architects optimize both design and energy efficiency.