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Butterfly Network, a startup co-founded by MIT alumnus Nevada Sanchez ’10, SM ’11, has developed a low-cost, handheld scanner that generates clinical-quality ultrasounds on a smartphone. Ultrasounds are uploaded to the cloud, where any expert with permission can give second opinions or help analyze images.

Giving everyone a window into the human body

Startup’s low-cost, portable scanner generates clinical-quality ultrasounds on a smartphone.

February 6, 2018

The co-directors of MITEI’s Low-Carbon Energy Center for Electric Power Systems Research are (left) Christopher Knittel, the George P. Shultz Professor of Applied Economics at the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Francis O'Sullivan, director of research for the MIT Energy Initiative.

3 Questions: Transforming our electric power system

Christopher Knittel and Francis O'Sullivan, co-directors of the MITEI Low-Carbon Energy Center for Electric Power Systems Research, are exploring cleaner, more reliable, and more cost-effective solutions.

February 2, 2018

At a time of rapid advances in intelligence research across many disciplines, the MIT Intelligence Quest will encourage researchers to investigate the societal implications of their work as they pursue hard problems lying beyond the current horizon of what is known.

Institute launches the MIT Intelligence Quest

New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.

February 1, 2018

Graduate Student Council launches inclusion initiative

Student representatives called "conduits" are discussing best practices and planning ways to implement diversity and inclusion programs campus-wide.

January 29, 2018

SuperUROP scholars, including EECS senior Emily Damato, discussed their research projects during an intensive Proposal Pitch session near the end of fall term.

Coding, thinking, sharing, building

More than 130 MIT juniors and seniors dig deeply into research in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Program (SuperUROP).

January 26, 2018

MIT neuroscientists have found evidence that the brain’s ability to control what it’s thinking about relies on low-frequency brain waves known as beta rhythms.

New study reveals how brain waves control working memory

Brain rhythms act as a gate for information entering and leaving the mind.

January 26, 2018

A new residence hall on Vassar Street will add 450 undergraduate beds to MIT’s inventory and will serve the Institute at large with a new community gathering space at its western end, new benches and lighting along Vassar Street, and a welcoming new dining facility.

Construction begins on a new student residence on Vassar Street

A next-generation home for MIT undergraduates is underway.

January 23, 2018

Various 3-D views of the basolateral amygdala show the arrangement of neurons that project to the nucleus accumbens (green), the hippocampus (blue), or the central amygdala (red).

Lifting the veil on "valence," brain study reveals roots of desire and dislike

Researchers map the amygdala's distinct but diverse and dynamic neighborhoods where feelings are assigned.

January 23, 2018

Members of the MIT engineering faculty annually receive a myriad of honors and awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.

School of Engineering fourth quarter 2017 awards

Faculty members were recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.

January 16, 2018

Three EECS professors join leadership team

Saman Amarasinghe and Joel Voldman are named associate department heads; Nancy Lynch is associate department head for strategic directions, a new post.

January 12, 2018