MISTI welcomes new faculty directors
Patrick Jaillet is named faculty director of MIT-France; Paulo Lozano is named faculty director of MIT-Mexico.
MITES: 40 years and over 2,200 students and counting
MIT’s flagship program for rising high school seniors welcomes its 2015 class to campus.
Researchers develop a new means of killing harmful bacteria
Engineered particles are capable of producing toxins that are deadly to targeted bacteria.
A new look for nuclear power
A nuclear power plant that will float eight or more miles out to sea promises to be safer, cheaper, and easier to deploy than today’s land-based plants.
Tackling challenges at the intersection of engineering and sports
Sports companies connect with engineering students and faculty at the second annual STE@M Day.
New model calculates how air transport connects the world
Study finds one-stop flights are a big contributor to global connectivity.
Social enterprises empower communities
MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.
New manufacturing approach slices lithium-ion battery cost in half
Reinventing how these batteries are made also improves their performance and recyclability.
Toward tiny, solar-powered sensors
New ultralow-power circuit improves efficiency of energy harvesting to more than 80 percent.
Powering desalination with the sun
PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
Middle schoolers turn into Roombas
Engineers from iRobot provide workshop for students from the Boston area in the MIT STEM Mentoring Program.
Bubbling with passion for environmental engineering
A witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China, grad student Ruby Fu now studies the fate of methane bubbles in the ocean.
Explained: chemical vapor deposition
Technique enables production of pure, uniform coatings of metals or polymers, even on contoured surfaces.
Modeling how thin films break up
Recent PhD recipient Rachel Zucker models phenomena collectively known as "dewetting" in microscale to nanoscale thin films.