Junot Díaz wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.
A brain beyond borders
MIT senior Victoria Okuneye traveled to Mexico and Jamaica to pursue her passions for neuroscience and global service.
Inauguration festivities off to a stimulating start
Innovation symposium touches on a dizzying array of topics, with themes of interdisciplinary collaboration, energy and innovation for the developing world.
Inaugural concert celebrates President Reif and Music at MIT
Council for the Arts at MIT sponsors inaugural concert including the Caracas Brass
Borpujari, an independent journalist based in India, joins CIS
Selected as the 2012-13 Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow.
3 Questions: Violence and protests in the Muslim world
MIT political scientist Fotini Christia talks about the attacks on U.S. and Western embassies in North Africa and the Middle East.
World-class musician Mark Stewart comes to the Glass Lab
In a yearlong residency, the musician and instrument designer will build a glass orchestra with MIT students.
Q&A: Junot Díaz on his new book
The MIT professor and Pulitzer-winning writer talks about the people and ideas in his newest work, This Is How You Lose Her — and explains why women form a big part of his core audience.
Understanding gambling addiction
For machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.
Seth Mnookin wins 2012 Science in Society Award
National Association of Science Writers honors his book The Panic Virus.
The economic cost of increased temperatures
Study: Warming episodes hurt poor countries and limit long-term growth.
Study: Many Americans die with ‘virtually no financial assets’
Innovative research shows large divergence in retirement saving outcomes, with the single elderly faring worse than married couples.