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.
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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.
Nine new faculty join the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
The school welcomes a superb group of scholars.
MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node finds permanent home
The 5,000-square-foot facility includes prototyping equipment, a makerspace, and multipurpose areas.
Astronaut Kate Rubins returns to the Whitehead Institute to describe her experiences in low-Earth orbit
Former Whitehead Fellow and recent International Space Station resident gives public talk and engages with the next generation of scientists and engineers.
American Sign Language at MIT
A new club is spreading awareness of Deaf culture and American Sign Language.
Researchers identify opportunities to improve quality, reduce cost of global food assistance delivery
Research from MIT's CITE program leverages a procurement process to identify opportunities for improving food aid supply chains.
Studies help explain link between autism, severe infection during pregnancy
Bacterial populations in mother’s GI tract may play a central role.
MIT releases endowment figures for 2017
Institute’s pooled investments returned 14.3 percent last year; endowment stands at $14.8 billion.
Maryann Gong named 2017 NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 honoree
Gong becomes third MIT student-athlete to be named to Top 30.
J-WAFS awards commercialization grants to develop technologies for water and food solutions
Three new projects and two renewals receive J-WAFS Solutions grant funding for 2017-2018.
IBM and MIT to pursue joint research in artificial intelligence, establish new MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab
IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment in new lab with MIT to advance AI hardware, software, and algorithms.