Five from MIT win 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Awards fund graduate studies for immigrants and children of immigrants.
Good medicine
Varesh Prasad, an MIT graduate student in health sciences and technology, is creating a multidisciplinary future in health care.
MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research
Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.
Designing a better built environment
Oral Buyukozturk develops innovative designs and technologies for durable, sustainable physical infrastructure projects.
Controlling RNA in living cells
Modular, programmable proteins can be used to track or manipulate gene expression.
MIT community galvanizes support for earthquake relief efforts
Community members are working on fundraising efforts in the wake of recent quakes in Ecuador and Japan.
Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award
Katharina Ribbeck and Jesse Thaler named recipients of the Harold E. Edgerton Award.
MIT.nano rising
MIT's future home for cutting-edge nanoscience and nanotechnology research gets fitted with 23 tons of steel per day.
Self-driving cars, meet rubber duckies
“Duckietown” class at Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab teaches autonomy, aims to become global research platform.
How to make cities more energy efficient
Retrofitting a small portion of buildings would have big impact on cities’ carbon emissions.
Combining curiosity with a desire to help
Senior Juan Jaramillo harnesses his natural curiosity to help others, while never forgetting his roots.
MIT invites you for a look under the dome
On April 23, MIT's Open House will feature 350-plus events to entertain and inform all ages.
Making electronics out of coal
Instead of burning up this complex hydrocarbon, let’s make devices from it, says Jeffrey Grossman.