3Q: Robert Armstrong on 10 years of energy research at MIT
MIT Energy Initiative Director Robert Armstrong shares perspectives on past successes and ongoing and future energy projects at the Institute.
New techniques give blood biopsies greater promise
Improved methods validate the use of blood samples for studying patients’ cancer genomes.
Artificial intelligence aids materials fabrication
System could pore through millions of research papers to extract “recipes” for producing materials.
Interdisciplinary materials science a key to progress
Bringing together researchers from different science and engineering fields for Materials Day Symposium promises solutions to energy, health, and other needs.
Tech and Tec: Nanoscale international engagement
Monterrey Tec Chairman José Antonio Fernández Carbajal tours MIT.nano during his first meeting as the newest member of the MIT Corporation.
Sixteen MIT grad students are named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018
MIT students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science fields receive the prestigious awards.
Connecting through conversation
Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.
Twelve from MIT honored by the American Physical Society
Prize winners span six departments in the schools of Science and Engineering.
Mars city living: Designing for the Red Planet
A multidisciplinary team of MIT students and postdocs wins an international competition focused on building sustainably on Mars.
Remembering and honoring the life of undergraduate Henoch Argaw
A motivated self-learner, Argaw found joy by teaching and mentoring others.
Faster big-data analysis
System for performing “tensor algebra” offers 100-fold speedups over previous software packages.
High School teams awarded 2017-18 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects
Fifteen student teams nationwide address local problems through invention.
Crowdsourcing big-data analysis
Web-based system automatically evaluates proposals from far-flung data scientists.
3-D-printed device builds better nanofibers
Printed nozzle system could make uniform, versatile fibers at much lower cost.
Jerry Akinsulire: The making of a maker mentor
Undergraduate Olorunsola “Jerry” Akinsulire spearheads a new builder space in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.