On the edge of discovery
For PhD student Silvia Espinosa, a passion for solving theoretical puzzles fuels a quest for fusion energy.
Faster parallel computing
New programming language delivers fourfold speedups on problems common in the age of big data.
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.
MIT and French research institutions collaborate on climate-conscious materials
MultiScale Material Science for Energy and Environment research partnership could reduce the carbon footprint of materials such as concrete.
Benefiting human health through engineering
PhD student Anasuya Mandal’s microneedle device could painlessly monitor the immune system.
On-demand mobility experiment coming to MIT
Electric shuttles will whisk volunteers about campus while gathering data for on-demand transportation services.
MIT’s REXIS is bound for asteroid Bennu
Instrument will help OSIRIS-REx mission identify locations for collecting an asteroid sample.
Nancy Lynch named associate head of Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Expert in distributed computing to join department leadership.
Tiny gold grids yielding secrets
Summer Scholar Justin Cheng explores process in Berggren group for making ordered metal nanostructures that display interesting new properties.
New applications for ultracapacitors
Startup’s energy-storage devices find uses in drilling operations, aerospace applications, electric vehicles.
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.
Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
Device that measures growth of many individual cells simultaneously could lead to rapid tests for antibiotics.
Measuring exposure to pollution
Mobile-phone data helps researchers study an urban problem in greater detail.