Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E)

The Center for Polymer Microfabrication is designing processes for manufacturing microfluidic chips. Pictured here is a chip fabricated by the center's tailor-made production machines.

Moving microfluidics from the lab bench to the factory floor

The Center for Polymer Microfabrication designs manufacturing processes for a new generation of diagnostic tools.

March 29, 2012

During the month of January, Bilikiss Adebiyi MBA '12 traveled to Nigeria to conduct market research and organize two recycling demo days in the community. Here, residents of Ajegunle, Lagos, exchanged recyclables for raffle tickets and anxiously await the calling of the winners.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: wecyclers

Incentivizing recycling in the slums of Nigeria

March 27, 2012

Two small-scale versions of three-dimensional photovoltaic arrays were among those tested by Jeffrey Grossman and his team on an MIT rooftop to measure their actual electrical output throughout the day.

A new dimension for solar energy

Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area.

March 27, 2012

During January, Essmart began demonstrating solar lanterns in southern Indian rural shops. Two stores sold 17 demonstration items in one week. Solar lanterns are among the products that Essmart seeks to distribute to rural shop owners in India.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Essmart

Improving access to vital technologies in rural India

March 8, 2012

Miles Barr, winner of the 2012 $30,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize.

MIT student inventor Miles C. Barr receives Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

March 7, 2012

Startup developing new battery technology wins $12,000 in first MIT ACCELERATE contest

March 6, 2012

New initiatives in graduate education at MIT

Three new committees will advance important topics.

March 5, 2012

Liskov named to National Inventors Hall of Fame

March 1, 2012

Pierre Azoulay, an associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Scientists: This man has your number

Pierre Azoulay knows why scientists thrive, flounder and have bursts of creativity — and he has the numbers to back it up.

February 29, 2012

Surrounded by local disaster relief volunteers, Morgan and Caitria O’Neill, center, began developing recovers.org, an innovative recovery platform, last summer in the wake of a tornado that ravaged their hometown — and their own home — in western Massachusetts.

IDEAS Global Challenge team profile: Recovers.org

Out of a crisis that struck close to home, sisters develop innovative disaster relief solution.

February 24, 2012

Rajesh Nair, SDM ’12: systems thinking for looking ahead and paying forward

February 17, 2012

MITx prototype course opens for enrollment

Online-learning initiative’s first offering, ‘6.002x: Circuits and Electronics,’ accepting registrants now.

February 13, 2012

Cuthbert receives $500,000 Digging into Data grant

Will support innovative musicology research

February 10, 2012

Graduate student Kevin Kung, right, sorted through trash with a waste collector outside of Nairobi, Kenya, over Independent Activities Period (IAP). Kung’s IDEAS Global Challenge team, Takachar, is developing efficient ways to produce charcoal from common household organic waste, such as maize husks and other food products.

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge teams innovate around the world during IAP

Students develop quality-of-life solutions for underserved communities.

February 8, 2012

Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams showcase inventions at White House Science Fair