Department
Chemistry
MIT sensor detects spoiled meat
Tiny device could be incorporated into “smart packaging” to improve food safety.
Shalek receives Searle Scholars Award
Award to Professor Alex Shalek will support new advances in nanotechnology and chemical biology.
Fostering U.S.-Russia energy innovation
Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage brings together researchers from MIT and two Russian institutes to develop advanced batteries and fuel cells.
New evidence for how a rare form of liver cancer arises
MIT team finds mechanism by which exposure to vinyl chloride may produce cancerous mutations.
Four professors named 2015 MacVicar Fellows
Bahr, Drennan, Gibson, and Sive receive the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
Five MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty specializing in mathematics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and economics among 126 selected.
A simple way to make and reconfigure complex emulsions
Researchers can precisely control the distribution of liquids suspended within each other.
Sylvia Ceyer elected to NAS governing council
Professor and head of the MIT Department of Chemistry will serve on the governing council of the National Academy of Sciences for a three-year term.
Freshman "chemistry clicker" champions named
Interactive clicker competitions pit student recitation teams against one another, turning learning into a semester-long game.
Evaluating strategies for HIV vaccination
Study yields insight into generating antibodies that target different strains of HIV.
Intrepid projects backed by Bose Grants
Five researchers embark on high-risk ventures, supported by Prof. Amar G. Bose Research Grants.
Stephen Buchwald receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
BBVA Foundation honors chemistry professor for his development of catalytic routes to construct carbon-nitrogen and carbon-carbon bonds.