A better way to deliver innovation to the world
"To tackle our biggest societal challenges, we need an innovation pipeline that delivers every drop," Reif writes.
SuperUROP class of 2015 graduates with high accomplishment and promise
Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart thanks SuperUROP students for their research and innovation contributions; praises program's quintessential "MIT-ness."
Freshly squeezed vaccines
Microfluidic cell-squeezing device opens new possibilities for cell-based vaccines.
Seeking deeper understanding of how the brain works
Edward Boyden develops techniques to study the brain, and how it operates, in finer detail.
Mission: "Space for all"
In visit to MIT, NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle urges women and girls to dream big.
Students inspire engineering activities and curriculum development for young learners
Civil and environmental engineering TREX students present their findings on Hawaii’s Mt. Kilauea to Boston Museum of Science educators.
Defusing bombs by color
Professor J. Kim Vandiver uses 3-D printing to help in explosives disposal in Cambodia.
MISTI Global Seed Funds: 2015-16 call for proposals
Funds support MIT's global engagement by promoting collaborations between MIT faculty and their counterparts abroad.
Gauging materials’ physical properties from video
“Visual microphone” technology could lead to noninvasive identification of objects’ structural defects.
How to make continuous rolls of graphene
New manufacturing process could take exotic material out of the lab and into commercial products.
Voltage: A new community of electrical engineers
MIT students organize a new group aimed at building a network of peers in electrical engineering.
Coding for cooling
Nuclear science and engineering graduate student Benjamin Magolan helps model improved coolant flow inside the core of a nuclear reactor.
To handle big data, shrink it
Algorithm reduces size of data sets while preserving their mathematical properties.
Taking control of light emission
Researchers find a way of tuning light waves by pairing two exotic 2-D materials.