Study: Firms “underinvest” in long-term cancer research
Tweaks to the R&D pipeline could create new drugs and greater social benefit.
Singaporean President Tony Tan hosts MIT delegation
Members of Regional Entrepreneurship Acceleration Program convene in Singapore for workshop.
How do you hack health care?
With MIT Hacking Medicine, brilliant minds converge at MIT to contribute to design thinking for health care.
A spot market for water
Sourcewater pioneers an exchange for trading and recycling water for oil and gas production and other operations.
What buyers want
MIT professors’ choice-modeling software predicts customer preferences for retailers.
Podcast: Explaining the art behind data
Society has access to more data than ever before. How do we make sense of it all?
Alumnus’s throwable tactical camera gets commercial release
Softball-sized camera can be tossed into unseen areas, sends panoramic images back to a smartphone.
Social enterprises empower communities
MIT students launch social enterprises that work with communities to foster financial and environmental sustainability.
New insights into carbon emissions in China
New research takes a look at whether policies can curtail the growth of harmful greenhouse gases.
Study: Juvenile incarceration yields less schooling, more crime
Teen offenders who serve time finish school less often, become repeat offenders more often.
Hugh Hampton Young Fellowship celebrates 50 years
New cohort of fellows to carry on humanitarian tradition at MIT.
New business app designed to reduce food waste
MIT Sloan MBA students found Spoiler Alert app to match surplus food inventory with those in need.
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.
MIT LGO: Succeeding in its mission to create industry leaders
Alumni weigh in on the value of an MIT engineering and management program that has produced many top executives.
Impact players
MIT Innovation Initiative conference explores the state of “social impact investing.”