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Letter to Congress outlines role of MIT endowment

MIT President L. Rafael Reif responds to Congressional request for information.

April 4, 2016

Chancellor announces changes to undergraduate withdrawal and readmission policies

Enhancements aim to make processes clearer, easier to navigate, and more supportive.

March 30, 2016

School of Science honors staff with 2016 Infinite Mile Awards

March 28, 2016

Feng Zhang receives 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award

Broad/MIT scientist among five honored as pioneers of CRISPR-Cas9 system.

March 23, 2016

Nathan Brown receives SOM Foundation Fellowship

Award supports travel by Building Technology graduate student to study architectural performance issues.

March 17, 2016

Researchers say the findings raise the possibility of developing future treatments that might reverse some of the memory loss seen in early-stage Alzheimer’s.

“Lost” memories can be found

Neuroscientists retrieve missing memories in mice with early Alzheimer’s symptoms.

March 16, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Ziawasch Abedjan, Sara Cleto, Zhizhuo Zhang, and Shahin Kamali.

Creating postdoc connections

The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science pilots new ways to build leadership and teamwork skills for its postdocs.

March 14, 2016

Empatica's wristband, called Embrace (pictured here), is “a consumer-looking, but medical-quality device” for monitoring stress and seizures, Rosalind Picard says.

Wristband detects and alerts for seizures, monitors stress

Wearable tracks increased skin conductance that signals stress, helps identify dangerous seizures.

March 9, 2016

“It certainly is the case that trade contributes to certain lower-priced goods and services, and on the average, that lowers the cost of living,” David Autor notes. “But for displaced workers, the fact that things are 10 percent cheaper at Walmart is just not making up for the fact that they’re not employed.”

Trading places

Economists take a new look at the evidence that the U.S. has lost millions of jobs to China.

March 9, 2016

2016 MacVicar Faculty Fellows: (clockwise from top left) Patty Tang, Jeffrey Grossman, Michael Sipser, and Srinivas Devadas

Four professors named 2016 MacVicar Faculty Fellows

Devadas, Grossman, Sipser, and Tang awarded MIT’s highest undergraduate teaching award.

March 7, 2016

Adam Cutler, IBM Design Studio program director, to speak at MIT

Hosted by the International Design Center, Cutler will discuss how IBM applies design best practices across all disciplines of its business.

February 25, 2016

Suzy Nelson named vice president for student life

Seasoned academic leader brings experience in student affairs at Colgate, Harvard, and Cornell.

February 24, 2016

The Kaymbu app, developed by an MIT Sloan Fellow, records and securely shares video and images of a young child’s classroom experiences with parents.

Media-sharing app for early education catches on nationwide

Teachers can record a child’s learning experiences and securely share them with parents.

February 24, 2016

Israel and MIT: Celebrating eight years of growth at the Institute

The MIT-Israel Program supports new collaborations between faculty and research scientists at MIT and their counterparts in Israel.

February 22, 2016

Boston Citywide Energy Model simulated energy use in a 200-by-200-meter grid for the City of Boston.

MIT researchers create citywide building energy model for Boston

Detailed model can help planners meet climate goals, increase resilience.