Eight from MIT elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences for 2018
Prestigious honor society announces 213 new members this year.
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Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Award honors immigrants’ contributions to the United States.
TESS readies for takeoff
Satellite developed by MIT aims to discover thousands of nearby exoplanets, including at least 50 Earth-sized ones.
Dense stellar clusters may foster black hole megamergers
Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.
Bertschinger to leave post as Institute Community and Equity Officer
After five years in novel administrative role, MIT physicist will return to faculty responsibilities.
School of Science announces Infinite Mile Awards for 2018
Seven staff members honored for their outstanding contributions to the MIT community.
Scientists find different cell types contain the same enzyme ratios
New discovery suggests that all life may share a common design principle.
Center for Theoretical Physics celebrates 50 years
Symposium explores how novel ideas and experiments are advancing many areas of theoretical physics in newly interconnected ways.
Scientists report first results from CUORE neutrino experiment
Data could shed light on why the universe has more matter than antimatter.
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.
Physicists discover new quantum electronic material
With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.
Scientists detect radio echoes of a black hole feeding on a star
Signals suggest black hole emits a jet of energy proportional to the stellar material it gobbles up.
Jani Adcock and Drew Bent named Knight-Hennessy Scholars
Seniors will join class of 49 scholars in new fellowship program.
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.
MIT physicists observe electroweak production of same-sign W boson pairs
With the aid of the Compact Muon Solenid detector at the Large Hadron Collider, a Laboratory for Nuclear Science-led group seeks to further understand the building blocks of matter.