Ramesh Raskar awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize
Imaging scientist and inventor sets sights on launching peer-to-peer invention platforms for global impact.
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Judging a book through its cover
New computational imaging method identifies letters printed on first nine pages of a stack of paper.
Contemporary and global music come together in MIT’s Sounding Series
The 2016-17 season will showcase everything from symphonic rock, to Japanese koto music, to jazz legend Joe Lovano.
President Reif to Class of 2020: “All of us together will make a better world”
MIT president and professors offer words of wisdom, encouragement at Freshman Convocation.
Eleven from MIT named to the 2016 TR35
Nearly one-third of MIT Technology Review’s top innovators under the age of 35 have a connection to MIT.
![“There's a lot of role models here [at MIT], and sometimes, in Chile or in Mexico or in Costa Rica, [girls] don't know that there's a graduate student or an undergrad doing these cool things at MIT,” says grad student Alicia Chong Rodriguez. “I think it's a matter of just connecting the dots.”](/sites/default/files/styles/search_result_item/public/images/201608/MIT-Alicia-Chong-1.jpg?itok=ueAa8pRa)
Taking on gender gaps in health care and technology
Graduate student Alicia Chong Rodriguez uses her engineering skills to empower women.
Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88
World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.
New movie screen allows for glasses-free 3-D at a larger scale
Prototype display enables viewers to watch a 3-D movie from any seat in a theater.
2016 MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows announced
Program blurs the lines between academia and the world.
Seeing RNA at the nanoscale
Microscopy technique allows scientists to pinpoint RNA molecules in the brain.
Music of the (data) spheres
A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.
Driverless cars: Who gets protected?
Study shows inconsistent public opinion on safety of driverless cars.
Supercharging undergraduate research
Now open to the entire School of Engineering, SuperUROP is creating an interdisciplinary community of scholars.
![“It’s very inspiring to see how these [hair-like] structures occur in nature and how they can achieve different functions,” says Jifei Ou, a graduate student in media arts and sciences at MIT. “We’re just trying to think how can we fully utilize the potential of 3-D printing, and create new functional materials whose properties are easily tunable and controllable.” Pictured is an examp...](/sites/default/files/styles/search_result_item/public/images/201606/MIT-PrintingHair.jpg?itok=0hg7Gg0k)
Need hair? Press “print”
With fur, brushes, and bristles, Media Lab’s technique opens new frontier in 3-D printing.