Susanne Martin, longtime MIT staff member, dies at 68
Talented administrator contributed to MIT Medical and to the Writing and Humanistic Studies Program.
Policing sex trafficking in the digital age
Mitali Thakor works with tech companies and police to understand what sex trafficking looks like today.
Training ‘small-planet’ engineers
‘Global Principles’ course challenges students at MIT and the University of Tokyo to develop a cross-cultural, systems approach to materials science and engineering.
Timing devices
Anna Mikusheva refines the tools of time-series econometrics to develop better forecasting.
MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 80 new members
Seniors combine the very best of humanities and science scholarship.
Anicka Yi's olfactory art
Working with materials from bacteria to honey, visiting artist Anicka Yi creates unique sensory installations.
Study: Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research
Tweaks to the R&D pipeline could create new drugs and greater social benefit.
The U.S.-Iran nuclear deal: MIT’s experts size it up
Faculty and specialists weigh in on potential pact and global implications.
Understanding economic behavior through hygiene
PhD student Reshmaan Hussam’s study of Bangladeshis’ economic behavior leads to research on hand-washing.
3 Questions: Michel DeGraff on Haiti’s new policy for teaching in Kreyòl
MIT scholar, and advocate of native-language instruction, backs linguistic change.
“A new leadership cadre for science and engineering”
MIT and Total partner to improve technical instruction in African universities.
3 Questions: Jennifer Light on new media and democracy
MIT historian of technology discusses new work examining “digital citizenship.”
MRIs for a more peaceful world
Neuroscientists and political scientists join together to advance peace and reconciliation.
Chisholm, Rivest, and Thompson appointed as new Institute Professors
Biologist, computer scientist, and musician awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.
Medical anthropology
Erica Caple James investigates how behavior, culture, and structural inequalities impact health.