School of Engineering welcomes Sophie Vandebroek as first visiting scholar
Primary focus will be to engage engineering students and peers from across the Institute on the school’s outreach and diversity activities.
Demo Day celebrates student entrepreneurship
MIT’s delta v accelerator concludes with presentations from participants and encouragement for all students.
Objects can now change colors like a chameleon
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory team creates new reprogrammable ink that lets objects change colors using light.
MIT named No. 3 university by US News for 2020
Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
How to make a book last for millennia
Study of Dead Sea Scroll sheds light on a lost ancient parchment-making technology.
Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for black hole observation
Nearly 30 MIT-affiliated researchers will share in the prize, while David Jay Julius ’77 wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; assistant professor of physics Max Metlitski shares New Horizons prize with Xie Chen PhD ’12 and Michael Levin PhD ’06.
Creating new opportunities from nanoscale materials
MIT Professor Frances Ross is pioneering new techniques to study materials growth and how structure relates to performance.
Taking the next giant leaps
Fifty years after the first moon landing with Apollo 11, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics looks to the future of space exploration at MIT.
Cleaning up hydrogen peroxide production
Solugen’s engineered enzymes offer a biologically-inspired method for producing the chemical.
Soft robotics breakthrough manages immune response for implanted devices
Discovery could enable longer-lasting and better-functioning devices — including pacemakers, breast implants, biosensors, and drug delivery devices.
MIT report examines how to make technology work for society
Task force calls for bold public and private action to harness technology for shared prosperity.
Students spearhead group to enhance the graduate experience
School of Engineering advisory group proposes a new leadership curriculum and stronger student-advisor relationships.
A comprehensive catalogue of human digestive tract bacteria
Researchers identify nearly 8,000 strains of bacteria, while also clarifying their genetic and metabolic context.
MIT’s fleet of autonomous boats can now shapeshift
New capabilities allow “roboats” to change configurations to form pop-up bridges, stages, and other structures.
Robotic thread is designed to slip through the brain’s blood vessels
Magnetically controlled device could deliver clot-reducing therapies in response to stroke or other brain blockages.