Helping companies optimize their websites and mobile apps MIT alumni-founded Amplitude offers tools to help companies respond to the ways users interact with their digital products. August 24, 2021 Read full story →
Daniel Hastings and Maria Yang appointed associate deans of engineering Faculty members will help to advance educational initiatives and strategy within the MIT School of Engineering. August 11, 2021 Read full story →
Considering the spiderweb After nearly a decade, an interdisciplinary collaboration to model a 3D spider web leads to many surprising results. August 10, 2021 Read full story →
Gerald Wogan, professor emeritus of biological engineering, chemistry, and toxicology, dies at 91 Pioneering scientist isolated, characterized, and established the mechanisms of many environmental toxins relevant to public health. August 5, 2021 Read full story →
Cleaning up industrial filtration MIT spinoff Via Separations aims for industrial decarbonization with its durable graphene oxide membranes. August 3, 2021 Read full story →
Software to accelerate R&D The alumni-founded startup Uncountable has developed a digital workbook to help scientists get more out of experimental data. July 13, 2021 Read full story →
Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab. July 12, 2021 Read full story →
Summer 2021 recommended reading from MIT Enjoy these recent titles from Institute faculty and staff. July 1, 2021 Read full story →
Letter from President Reif: A new future for edX MIT president writes to the community about the nonprofit launched by MIT and Harvard in 2012. June 29, 2021 Read full story →
FAQs on agreement to sell edX to 2U, Inc. and fund nonprofit to reimagine digital learning June 29, 2021 Read full story →
MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U Two-part transaction would turn edX into a public benefit company while generously funding a nonprofit dedicated to strengthening the impact of digital learning. June 29, 2021 Read full story →
Queen of hearts Professor Laurie Boyer studies cardiac development, and how we might be able to mend broken hearts. June 16, 2021 Read full story →
Unlocking the potential of blockchain technology Algorand uses a unique architecture developed by MIT Professor Silvio Micali to offer a decentralized, secure, and scalable blockchain. June 16, 2021 Read full story →
Imagining the distant past — and finding keys to the future Associate professor of earth science David McGee studies the atmosphere’s response to paleoclimate changes. June 16, 2021 Read full story →
Speeding up clinical trials by making drug production local Professor Tim Jamison’s company Snapdragon Chemistry helps turn the latest innovations in chemistry into impactful drugs. June 11, 2021 Read full story →