Iberdrola and MIT Energy Initiative announce $10.3 million collaboration
Funding will establish MIT professorship and support low-carbon energy and climate initiatives.
School of Engineering awards for 2017
Awards given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.
New technique makes brain scans better
Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large-scale studies of stroke outcome.
Pew recognizes four MIT researchers for innovation in biomedical science
Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé and cell biologist Gene-Wei Li honored as Pew Scholars; postdocs Ana Fiszbein and María Inda are named Pew Latin American Fellows.
Featured video: Bringing “Einstein’s Dreams” to life
An MIT student in engineering and theater arts melds her dual passions to bring physics to the stage.
Endowing cells with new abilities
PhD student Fahim Farzadfard engineers cells to record “memories” of past events.
Space junk: The cluttered frontier
New laser technique identifies the makeup of space debris, from painted shards to Teflon.
AFFOA launches state-of-the-art facility for prototyping advanced fabrics
New center for development of high-tech fibers and fabrics opens headquarters, unveils two products ready for commercialization.
Advanced Functional Fabrics of America opens headquarters steps from MIT campus
New AFFOA facility represents a significant MIT investment in advanced manufacturing innovation.
Toward optical quantum computing
Prototype device enables photon-photon interactions at room temperature.
Shrinking data for surgical training
Technique that reduces video files to one-tenth their initial size enables speedy analysis of laparoscopic procedures.
After MIT, new officers will serve their country
Following their MIT studies, graduates in MIT’s Reserve Officer Training Corps set off on new challenges in the U.S. military.
Batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
Startup’s novel aluminum batteries increase the range of UUVs tenfold.
In search of a meaningful life
Popular MIT anthropology course offers contemplation and dialogue on life's big questions.
Building to better weather the storm
New dashboard developed by the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub helps builders calculate the breakeven cost of hazard mitigation in hurricane-prone areas.