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Contemporary and global music come together in MIT’s Sounding Series

The 2016-17 season will showcase everything from symphonic rock, to Japanese koto music, to jazz legend Joe Lovano.

September 7, 2016

FastCAP Systems' ultracapacitors (pictured) can withstand extreme temperatures and harsh environments, opening up new uses for the devices across a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, aerospace and defense, and electric vehicles.

New applications for ultracapacitors

Startup’s energy-storage devices find uses in drilling operations, aerospace applications, electric vehicles.

September 7, 2016

Rachel Bennett, director, Council for the Arts at MIT

Council for the Arts at MIT welcomes Rachel Bennett as its new director

The Council has funded arts programs at MIT for 44 years.

September 6, 2016

QS ranks MIT the world’s top university for 2016-17

Ranked No. 1 for the fifth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 42 disciplines.

September 5, 2016

Eleven faculty, staff, and alumni were named to the MIT Technology Review 2016 TR35.

Eleven from MIT named to the 2016 TR35

Nearly one-third of MIT Technology Review’s top innovators under the age of 35 have a connection to MIT.

August 25, 2016

Good Samaritan Amnesty Policy will now apply to prohibited substances

Dean for Student Life Suzy Nelson says new policy is designed to reduce barriers to help-seeking, ensure student safety; changes respond to students’ concerns.

August 25, 2016

Libraries launch Institute-wide reading program

MIT Reads invites the entire community for common reading and discussion.

August 19, 2016

Duane Boning named head of Leaders for Global Operations program

Boning succeeds David Simchi-Levi as engineering faculty director of master’s program.

August 16, 2016

Faculty at MIT and beyond respond forcefully to an article critical of Suzanne Corkin

More than 200 members of the scientific community sign a letter supporting the late MIT neuroscientist; department head issues a statement.

August 9, 2016

In an invited report and presentation at the White House ahead of the Paris climate negotiations, Jessika Trancik of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society described an analysis that she and her colleagues at MIT and Tsinghua University performed, including results that demonstrate a mutually reinforcing cycle between emissions-reduction policies and technology development.

Reducing emissions, improving technology: A mutually reinforcing cycle

An MIT study on the connection between technology development and emissions-reduction policies informs Paris climate negotiations.

August 8, 2016

MIT Department of Materials Science and Engineering graduate student Peter Su shows Summer Scholar Ashley Del Valle Morales how to operate a laser and detector system she will use during her summer project under Senior Research Scientist Anuradha Agarwal.

Chemical sensing at telecom wavelengths

Summer Scholar Ashley Del Valle Morales probes new a silicon carbide system in the MIT Microphotonics Center.

August 8, 2016

After the financial-sector crisis in 2007 and 2008, a large portion of investments people had considered safe were suddenly understood to be risky. And yet, the ensuing flight to safe assets, such as U.S. debt, has come with its own cost.

The safety trap

Lack of secure investments is hindering growth globally, research finds.

August 5, 2016

Kay Tye, the Whitehead Career Development Assistant Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and a member of the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, has been awarded the 2016 Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research.

Kay Tye receives Freedman Prize for Exceptional Basic Research

Neuroscientist recognized by the Brain and Behavior Research Foundation for project on neural circuits for anxiety control.

August 3, 2016

Erica Eggleton is working this summer in the lab of MIT Professor Krystyn Van Vliet on lithium manganese oxide (LMO) electrodes for lithium ion batteries. Here, she measures out carbon powder, a binder, and LMO, the active powder used in the battery electrodes.

Analyzing lithium ion battery fatigue

Summer Scholar Erica Eggleton joins Van Vliet Lab to make and test lithium manganese oxide electrodes.

August 2, 2016

John Fernández is a professor of building technology in the MIT Department of Architecture and director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative.

John Fernández: Growing grassroots for sustainability on campus and abroad

Environmental Solutions Initiative’s new director discusses sustainable development, student engagement, and making Baker House his home.