MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025
Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions.
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Lisa Su ’90, SM ’91, PhD ’94 to deliver MIT’s 2026 Commencement address
An electrical engineer by training, Su is the chair and CEO of the semiconductor company AMD.
MIT affiliates named 2025 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows
Postdoc Zongyi Li, Associate Professor Tess Smidt, and seven additional alumni will be supported in the development of AI against difficult problems.
Quantum modeling for breakthroughs in materials science and sustainable energy
Quantum chemist and School of Science Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellow Ernest Opoku is working on computational methods to study how electrons behave.
Alan Whitney, MIT Haystack Observatory radio astronomer who pioneered very long baseline interferometry, dies at 81
Longtime research scientist who served as associate director and interim director helped guide Haystack to decades of influential leadership in the development and refinement of the VLBI technique.
Ray Kurzweil ’70 reinforces his optimism in tech progress
Receiving the Robert A. Muh award, the technologist and author heralded a bright future for AI, breakthroughs in longevity, and more.
Laurent Demanet appointed co-director of MIT Center for Computational Science and Engineering
Applied mathematics professor will join fellow co-director Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou in leading the cross-cutting center.
Matthew Shoulders named head of the Department of Chemistry
A leading researcher in protein folding biochemistry and next-generation protein engineering techniques will advance chemistry research and education.
By attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead
MIT is a global community whose international engagement bestows benefits well beyond the Cambridge campus.
Meet the 2025 tenured professors in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Faculty members granted tenure in Linguistics and Philosophy, Music and Theater Arts, and Political Science.
SHASS announces appointments of new program and section heads for 2025-26
Sandy Alexandre, Manduhai Buyandelger, and Eden Medina take on new leadership positions.
Fikile Brushett named director of MIT chemical engineering practice school
Brushett leads one-of-its-kind program that has been a bridge between education and industry for over a century.
Marcus Stergio named ombudsperson
Offering confidential, impartial support, the Ombuds Office helps faculty, students, and staff resolve issues affecting their work and studies at MIT.
The “Mississippi Bubble” and the complex history of Haiti
Historian Malick Ghachem’s new book illuminates the pre-revolutionary changes that set Haiti’s long-term economic structure in place.
Helping data storage keep up with the AI revolution
Storage systems from Cloudian, co-founded by an MIT alumnus, are helping businesses feed data-hungry AI models and agents at scale.