Media Lab

MIT President L. Rafael Reif (left) and Talal Shair sign documents related to the collaboration between the Dar Group and MIT.

MIT Collaboration with Dar Group supports the future of architecture, planning, and design

June 26, 2018

MIT to conduct an environmental scan of open source publishing

Grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will enable a landscape analysis and code audit of all known open source authoring and publishing platforms.

June 22, 2018

MIT has identified the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse as a potential new location for the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P). The proposed move would let the Institute create a new hub for design research and education, allow the school to expand its full range of activities, and open new spaces for public use.

Metropolitan Storage Warehouse is potential new location for School of Architecture and Planning

Historic building would create “design hub” for MIT, with benefits for surrounding community.

June 14, 2018

MIT announces leadership of its Quest for Intelligence

Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.

June 11, 2018

MIT researchers, working with scientists from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, have developed a new way to power and communicate with devices implanted deep within the human body.

Wireless system can power devices inside the body

New technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.

June 4, 2018

Tyler Clites is a $15,000 Lemelson-MIT "Cure it" graduate winner for his novel surgical technique for limb amputation.

Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention

Award honors top collegiate inventors in the United States.

May 31, 2018

Two agonist-antagonist myoneural interface devices (AMIs) were surgically created in the patient’s residual limb: One was electrically linked to the robotic ankle joint, and the other to the robotic subtalar joint.

Surgical technique improves sensation, control of prosthetic limb

New study describes first human implementation of novel approach to limb amputation.

May 30, 2018

Anne Whiston Spirn (left), the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning, has been honored with the Design Mind award by Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Neri Oxman (right), the Sony Corporation Career Development Professor, received the Interaction Design award.

Spirn, Oxman win Cooper Hewitt design awards

School of Architecture and Planning professors receive national recognition for excellence, innovation, and impact through design.

May 30, 2018

The 2018 MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows: (top row, l-r) Jamira Burley, Ben Draper, Ifeoma Fafunwa, Liz George, Allegra Libonati; (bottom row, l-r) Giorgia Lupi, Margarita Mora, Amanda Nguyen, Julia Reda, Harper Reed.

MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows announced for 2018

New cohort brings social, scientific, and creative experience to extend the lab’s reach beyond academia.

May 24, 2018

Ed Boyden (left) and Feng Zhang have been named HHMI investigators.

Ed Boyden and Feng Zhang named Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators

MIT faculty members are among 19 top scientists selected from across the nation.

May 23, 2018

The eight 2018 MIT Fulbright Students are: (top, l-r) Emily Watlington, Caitlin Fischer, Luke Weisenbach, Julia Cha; (bottom, l-r) Jessica Varner, Andrew Xia, Skanda Koppula, Mary Tsang.

Eight from MIT receive 2018 Fulbright awards

Graduating students and alumni will conduct research abroad in 2018-19 academic year.

May 18, 2018

Outside the cell of MIT's Alcator C-Mod tokamak Professor Joe Paradiso listens to the sound of the fusion experiment's data, processed by his unique modular synthesizer.

Spinning data into sound

An interdepartmental collaboration brings out the music of nuclear fusion.

May 9, 2018

Colombian farmers demonstrate the coffee-growing process to D-Lab students.

J-WEL names spring 2018 grant recipients

Education Innovation Grant program for pK-12 and higher education awards $400,000 to MIT faculty to support education innovation both at MIT and globally.

May 7, 2018

A workshop preceding the Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon guided participants in team-building and brainstorming exercises. More than half the attendees were hackathon first-timers.

Addressing bias, inequality, and accessibility in breastfeeding

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon at the Media Lab emphasizes social and political issues over engineering.

May 4, 2018

The 16th Venice Architecture Biennale will be open to the public May 26 - Nov. 25.

MIT returns to the Venice Architecture Biennale

Faculty, students, and alumni contribute as curators and exhibitors at the world’s premier forum for architecture and design.