MIT completes advance refunding of bonds sold in 2008, 2009 Move akin to “refinancing” allows Institute to take advantage of today's low interest rates. September 24, 2014 Read full story →
Inventor creates tiny technologies for medicine; awarded $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize Sangeeta Bhatia combines clinical and engineering perspectives to tackle complex health challenges. September 9, 2014 Read full story →
Media Lab to launch wellness initiative with $1 million Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant New program, Advancing Wellness, combines academics with on-the-ground initiatives to promote better health at MIT and beyond. September 8, 2014 Read full story →
Manual control Oblong Industries brings gesture-control technology from Hollywood to corporate conference rooms. September 5, 2014 Read full story →
Successful MIT Global Startup Labs alum visits campus Olumide Ogunlana, co-founder of PrepClass, shares his experience participating in the Institute's international startup program. August 29, 2014 Read full story →
Campus in the cloud: IS&T offers Dropbox for Business to the MIT community Enterprise version of the cloud-based file storage, syncing, and sharing service offers many features beyond those offered for personal accounts. August 21, 2014 Read full story →
Moving forward PhD student Niaja Farve combines research, entrepreneurship, outreach, and indefatigable drive. August 19, 2014 Read full story →
Our connection to content Using neuroscience tools, Innerscope Research explores the connections between consumers and media. August 19, 2014 Read full story →
Celebrating 40 years of ballroom dancing at MIT MIT’s Ballroom Dancing Club celebrates its 40th anniversary on Aug. 9. August 5, 2014 Read full story →
Vision-correcting displays Technology could lead to e-readers, smartphones, and displays that let users dispense with glasses. July 31, 2014 Read full story →
A market for emotions With emotion-tracking software, Affectiva attracts big-name clients, aims for “mood-aware” Internet. July 31, 2014 Read full story →
ScratchJr: Coding for kindergarten With a new app, young children learn important skills as they program stories and games. July 30, 2014 Read full story →
Mental-health monitoring goes mobile Startup Ginger.io analyzes smartphone data to remotely predict when patients with mental illnesses are symptomatic. July 16, 2014 Read full story →
A "maker" education NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create. July 8, 2014 Read full story →
Mark Jarzombek named interim dean of the School of Architecture and Planning Historian, critic, and theorist has been a faculty member since 1996 and associate dean since 2007. June 30, 2014 Read full story →