Nuclear science and engineering graduate students win NEUP fellowships
Black, Boyd and Shaner among 31 recipients
Department of Mechanical Engineering's Toy Lab 'PLAYsents' student-built prototypes
In 2.00b, students focus on their inner child.
L. Rafael Reif selected as MIT’s 17th president
As provost since 2005, the president-elect has inspired innovation and played a critical role in the financial stewardship of the Institute.
A new look at prolonged radiation exposure
MIT study suggests that at low dose-rate, radiation poses little risk to DNA.
The elusive capacity of networks
Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.
Entrepreneurial students dive into product design and development
Joint MIT-RISD course yields concepts from iPad-friendly backpacks to waste-free sugar.
Alumnus Bernard M. Gordon awards 43 Gordon Engineering Leaders Program completion certificates
Twenty students complete the year two program; 23 complete year one
Whirr, click, hum: Robots go at it in 2.007 finale
Competition concludes mechanical design class, unleashing a wide variety of spinning, pumping and striking robots.
One-two punch knocks out aggressive breast cancer cells
New MIT study shows that staggered delivery of cancer drugs is far more effective than administering them at the same time.
Exploding the myths of manufacturing
MIT conference explores the complex state of an industry showing signs of revival.
In search of new ways of producing nano-materials
Jing Kong’s research focuses on how to make and control novel forms of thin-film carbon.
Excel programming for nonprogrammers
A new system allows Excel users to create customized functions for their spreadsheets simply by offering a few examples of how data should be manipulated.