Chi Zhang wins IUPAC-Solvay International Award for Young Chemists
Award from the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and Solvay recognizes the best PhD theses in the chemical sciences.
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Brad Pentelute: In search of novel proteins
Chemistry professor builds on nature to design new drugs and engineer better ways to deliver them.
Celebrating great mentorship for graduate students
MIT’s Committed to Caring Award selects third slate of dedicated professors.
Timothy Swager receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
The fellowship supports top-tier researchers at U.S. universities whose high-risk, high-payoff work is of strategic importance to the Department of Defense.
Fluorescent dye could enable sharper biological imaging
Technique could allow doctors and researchers to generate clearer images of blood vessels and other tissues.
MIT graduate engineering, business, science programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2019
Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.
MIT rates No. 1 in 12 subjects in 2018 QS World University Rankings
MIT ranked within top 5 in 19 out of 48 subject areas.
Scientists deliver high-resolution glimpse of enzyme structure
New finding suggests differences in how humans and bacteria control production of DNA’s building blocks.
A lifelong search for new catalysts
Richard Schrock, trailblazer in organometallic chemistry, delivers annual Killian Lecture.
Eight MIT researchers win 2018 Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty from six MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
After receiving Killian Award, Richard Schrock reflects on a life in chemistry
The award, he says, is an honor equal to his Nobel Prize, which he received in 2005.
3Q: Institute Professor John Deutch on maintaining US leadership in technological innovation
Putting limits on foreign students or technical publications would be counterproductive, write Deutch and Condoleezza Rice.
Bose Grants for 2017 reward bold and unconventional research visions
Six potentially paradigm-shifting research projects will make strides with funding from Professor Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
Researchers establish long-sought source of ocean methane
An abundant enzyme in marine microbes may be responsible for production of the greenhouse gas.