Digital Diploma debuts at MIT
Using Bitcoin's blockchain technology, the Institute has become one of the first universities to issue recipient-owned virtual credentials.
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Deshpande Center and J-WAFS announce fall 2017 research grants
Twenty-two research teams receive $1,443,000 to develop new technological innovations.
Good Housekeeping honors rocket scientist Tiera Guinn '17
Design engineer and 2017 alumna working on the largest rocket ever created by NASA was named an "Awesome Woman of 2017."
When healthy meets fast food
T.K. Pillan ’90 created Veggie Grill, a completely plant-based, fast-casual eatery that is now the largest vegan and vegetarian restaurant company in the U.S.
Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab holds inaugural J-WEL Week
Educators, researchers, policy makers, and technologists from 27 countries gather to spark a global renaissance in education for all learners.
Celebrating the life of doctoral student and alumnus Michael B. Cohen
Faculty, friends, and family pay tribute to an intellectually generous scholar.
3Q: Lesley Millar-Nicholson on MIT’s Technology Licensing Office
The TLO serves to protect and invest in the inventions created by MIT researchers.
Why researchers should step out of the lab
Project reveals benefits of communicating with industry when conducting research.
MIT physicist Rainer Weiss shares Nobel Prize in physics
LIGO inventor and professor emeritus of physics recognized “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.”
Fast-moving magnetic particles could enable new form of data storage
Recently discovered phenomenon could provide a way to bypass the limits to Moore’s Law.
Clearing the air
At Plume Labs in Paris, MIT-France interns take on an invisible threat by helping to develop a wearable device that tracks indoor and outdoor air quality.
Alex Creely: Bridging the simulation vs. reality gap
Nuclear science and engineering graduate student receives Department of Energy Innovation Award for his work on plasma turbulence.
Researchers identify molecular motor that transforms chromosomes
Experiments confirm hypothesis about how the genome becomes organized into “neighborhoods.”
Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo
Finding represents first joint detection of gravitational waves with both detectors.
A better world, starting close to home
MIT faculty and alumni have helped to shape Cambridge, Boston, and the surrounding region.