School of Science welcomes new faculty
Professors' research areas include molecular mechanisms in cells, quantum condensed matter, and dark matter.
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MIT Society of Physics Students receives honorable mention, named 'distinguished chapter'
This dual honor puts the MIT chapter in the top 20 percent of nearly 800 chapters nationwide.
3-D scanning, with your smartphone
Startup Viztu Technologies developed commercial software that generated 3-D models from 2-D photos, before selling to a tech giant.
Flying the not-so-friendly skies
Study shows that network carriers receive more complaints than cheaper airlines, regardless of actual service quality.
Pedro Reis receives Early Career Award from National Science Foundation
Award will fund continued development of Smart Morphable Surfaces (or Smorphs), a new class of on-demand morphable structures.
MIT and Harvard release working papers on open online courses
Research findings challenge common misconceptions, offer surprising insights about how students engage with MOOCs.
Power (of electronics) to the people
Alumna Ayah Bdeir’s fast-growing startup littleBits, which sells connectable electronic modules, is helping people understand and build creatively with electronics.
SA+P receives $1 million grant from Mellon Foundation
The grant will help create a Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative.
Gruber outlines key upcoming moments in Affordable Care Act rollout
MIT expert weighs in on health plan’s status as legislation becomes reality.
Elizabeth Johnson, widow of former MIT president Howard Johnson, dies at 92
Known for her ‘warmth, kindness, and gracious good sense’ during campus upheaval in the late 1960s, Johnson helped lead MIT at a divisive time.
Anthropologist Manduhai Buyandelger wins the 2013 Levitan Prize in the Humanities
The $25,000 research grant will go towards supporting the professor's ethnographic study of parliamentary elections in Mongolia.
App Inventor launches second iteration
Since its 2009 creation, more than a million people have registered to use App Inventor, which is now based out of the MIT Media Lab.
'A quiet place to think out loud'
MIT employees participate in Mentoring 101 workshop sponsored by Human Resources and the Employee Resource Groups.