Ingenuity, design, and human spirit
A new book from the MIT Future Heritage Lab goes inside a Syrian refugee camp to uncover the creative lives of its inhabitants.
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Deep learning helps predict traffic crashes before they happen
A deep model was trained on historical crash data, road maps, satellite imagery, and GPS to enable high-resolution crash maps that could lead to safer roads.
Refugee learners aim to lift up their communities
MIT Refugee Action Hub celebrates the graduation of its third and largest cohort yet.
Enabling AI-driven health advances without sacrificing patient privacy
Secure AI Labs, founded by alumna Anne Kim and MIT Professor Manolis Kellis, anonymizes data for AI researchers.
MIT Sloan and Bayer team up to cultivate digital intrapreneurship capability
Corporate innovation leaders at Bayer engage MIT Sloan Executive Education in a transformational data science and intrapreneurship program.
Ana Pantelic appointed executive director of MIT D-Lab
An international development practitioner, academic researcher, and social entrepreneur, Pantelic will help guide D-Lab into its third decade.
MIT economist Nancy Rose receives the Carolyn Shaw Bell Award
The prestigious prize honors leadership in advancing the status of women in the economics field through example, scholarship, achievements, and mentoring.
Professor Emeritus Frederick Frey, a leader in the field of geochemistry, dies at 83
Over a career spanning five decades, Frey pioneered the use of new techniques to study the Earth’s mantle.
MIT brings Campaign for a Better World to a successful finish
The effort raised more than $6 billion to spark innovation on global challenges.
Citizens emerge from the slums
PhD student Ying Gao's research reveals that the urban poor in the developing world are politically engaged and capable of effecting change.
Predicting building emissions across the US
MIT researchers have analyzed greenhouse gas emissions from future buildings across America and outlined region-specific solutions.
Bringing precision to musculoskeletal health
Figur8, founded by MIT alumna Nan-Wei Gong SM ’09, PhD ’13, offers a wearable sensor system to improve the diagnosis and treatment of muscle injuries.
New views of autocracy emerge from historic archives
Political science PhD student Emilia Simison has found that despotic regimes vary, and the move to democracy doesn’t necessarily guarantee policy change.
The next generation of glowing plants
Using nanoparticles that store and gradually release light, engineers create light-emitting plants that can be charged repeatedly.
Why the future of textiles is collaborative
How-to manual from MIT and the Fashion Institute of Technology codifies successful textiles partnership between designers, engineers.