MIT launches new venture for world-changing entrepreneurs
The Engine will provide funding, space, and expertise — powering a network of innovation networks.
Economist Bengt Holmström’s Nobel Prize win delights MIT colleagues
Faculty members in SHASS and Sloan cite his transformative work on contract theory.
Launching STEX25
An accelerator managed by MIT's Industrial Liaison Program and Startup Exchange focuses on fostering startup and industry collaboration.
Calculating the financial risks of renewable energy
Financial-modeling software for sustainable-infrastructure projects could boost investment in sector.
MIT named No. 7 university by U.S. News
Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Startups show promise, progress at Demo Day
Capstone event for MIT’s summer accelerator showcases businesses with significant early growth.
QS ranks MIT the world’s top university for 2016-17
Ranked No. 1 for the fifth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 42 disciplines.
![“There's a lot of role models here [at MIT], and sometimes, in Chile or in Mexico or in Costa Rica, [girls] don't know that there's a graduate student or an undergrad doing these cool things at MIT,” says grad student Alicia Chong Rodriguez. “I think it's a matter of just connecting the dots.”](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201608/MIT-Alicia-Chong-1.jpg?itok=SHyICvo7)
Taking on gender gaps in health care and technology
Graduate student Alicia Chong Rodriguez uses her engineering skills to empower women.
D-Lab Scale-Ups awards four fellowships totaling $80,000 to social entrepreneurs
Fellows work on low-cost microgrids, prosthetics made from cane, hands-on STEM education in Ghana, and a rechargeable headlamp for rural Indian farmers.
Building a foundation for tech startups
Launched in an MIT dorm room, alum’s venture capital firm now controls $150 million in assets.
Leading and transforming the global energy sector to address climate change
2016 C3E symposium convenes international leaders on climate, energy, and diversity.
SMART Innovation Center Grants announced
Nearly $1.55 million awarded to innovators through the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology.
MIT Forum and Infosys Risk Group release preliminary global risk survey findings
Survey indicates 92.54 percent of companies think the nature of risk is changing due to complexity in the digital economy.
![A new study finds generally higher prices with occasional sales mixed in will yield more revenue than consistently low prices, at least for fashionable goods. “The high-value customers will still buy the product,” Karen Zheng says. “They want to [avoid] this feeling of regret, which would occur if they wait now and then cannot get it in the future.”](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201605/MIT-Quantifying-Regret.jpg?itok=qLKeqfIg)
From MOOC to bootcamp to MIT
Two students with entrepreneurial spirit found their way into the Class of 2020 through MITx.