At Putnam, students rise to the challenge
MIT places first in Putnam Mathematical Competition for third year in a row.
Department
Mathematics
MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research
Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.
Seven from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2016
Prestigious honor society announces 213 new members this year.
QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016
MIT ranked within the top 5 globally for 19 of 42 subject areas.
How crispy is your bonbon?
New theory, inspired by chocolate coatings, predicts thickness of thin shells.
MITx Grant Program selects eight new innovative digital learning projects
New projects emphasize using digital methods not possible in traditional classes, leveraging research-based teaching practices, and measuring student learning.
A hands-on approach to art, math, and community
Senior YQ Lu finds new ways to combine math and paper art, shares his passion for both.
Four professors named 2016 MacVicar Faculty Fellows
Devadas, Grossman, Sipser, and Tang awarded MIT’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
New theory of deep-ocean sound waves may aid tsunami detection
Surface waves can trigger powerful sound waves that race through the deep ocean, study suggests.
Through dance, program turns "I can't" into "I can"
Student-run program, SHINE for Girls, teaches middle schoolers mathematics through dance.
Department of Mathematics returns to Building 2
A major renovation project preserves a century of history, paves the way for the future of mathematics.
Eleven MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty from eight MIT science and engineering departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
Five with MIT ties tapped for Inventors Hall of Fame
MIT professor and four alumni honored for inventing electronic ink, the spanning tree protocol, and Sketchpad, a human-machine graphical communication system.
Study reveals shared behavior of microbes and electrons
Bacteria streaming through a lattice behave like electrons in a magnetic material.