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Researchers at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub are studying the connections between urban layouts and hazard losses.

Discerning the texture of urban resilience

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers are investigating how the layouts, or textures, of cities influence extreme weather events.

March 30, 2020

From developing vaccines to helping governments keep communities informed, a number of companies with MIT ties are working to address problems brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

MIT-affiliated companies take on Covid-19

A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

March 26, 2020

Students from the first academic course to use MIT.nano's facilities pose in the facility's soft lithograpy space with technical instructor Scott Poesse (left).

Meet the first undergraduate users of MIT.nano

Micro/nano processing course fabricates devices in MIT.nano’s facilities.

March 25, 2020

Assistant Professor Gabriela Schlau-Cohen has observed, for the first time, a mechanism that plants use to protect themselves from sun damage.

How plants protect themselves from sun damage

Study reveals a mechanism that plants can use to dissipate excess sunlight as heat.

March 10, 2020

A new model of glucose-responsive insulin, developed by MIT researchers, could lead to better treatment for diabetes and could eliminate the need for regular manual glucose-level testing.

Mathematical model could lead to better treatment for diabetes

A new model can predict which types of glucose-responsive insulin will work in humans and animals.

March 9, 2020

Over 100 middle schoolers from Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts came to the MIT campus to compete in the fifth annual Northeast Regional Middle School Science Bowl.

Not your average science classroom

MIT student volunteers host fifth annual Northeast Regional Middle School Science Bowl for over 100 middle schoolers.

March 4, 2020

Left to right: The Machu Picchu Design Heritage project is a past Global Seed Fund recipient. Paloma Gonzalez, Takehiko Nagakura, Chang Liu, and Wenzhe Peng pose with a panoramic view of Machu Picchu in Peru. They are part of an MIT team that has worked to digitally document the site.

Empowering faculty partnerships across the globe

MISTI Global Seed Funds program has delivered $22 million to faculty since 2008.

March 3, 2020

$MIT students set records at this year’s Putnam Competition: (left to right) Shengtong Zhang, Yuan Yao, Kevin Sun, Daniel Zhu, Qi Qi, and Dain Kim. Not pictured: Ashwin Sah.$

MIT students dominate annual Putnam Mathematical Competition

Participating MIT students make history by taking all top five spots — the first time this has happened for any school.

March 3, 2020

Kazunori Akiyama has been working at MIT Haystack Observatory, a radio science research center in Westford, Massachusetts, as a postdoc of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science since 2015 and as a NRAO Jansky Fellow since 2017.

Kazunori Akiyama receives 2020 Young Astronomer Award

Awards program annually recognizes three early-career scientists under 35 who have made outstanding contributions to astronomy.

March 2, 2020

Ernest Moniz, former U.S. Secretary of Energy and founding director of the MIT Energy Initiative, introduced the fourth MIT symposium on climate change.

Deep cuts in greenhouse emissions are tough but doable, experts say

Speakers at MIT climate symposium outline the steps needed to achieve global carbon neutrality by midcentury.

February 27, 2020

The ReACT computer and data sciences cohort gathered with MIT Open Learning faculty and staff in Amman, Jordan, in 2019.

Through ReACT, refugee learners become “CEOs of their own lives”

Computer and data science graduates learned to forge their own destinies while gaining employable skills.

February 26, 2020

GradSAGE Leadership Sub-Committee members (left to right): Vamsi Mangena, Elise Wilcox, Benjamin Lienhard, Lucio Milanese, Laureen Meroueh, and Clinton Wang

A new way to prepare graduate students to lead in tech

A new graduate certificate offered through the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program will launch this fall.

February 26, 2020

A crash course in deep learning organized and taught by grad students Alexander Amini (right) and Ava Soleimany reaches more than 350 MIT students each year; more than a million other people have watched their lectures online over the past three years.

Bringing deep learning to life

MIT duo uses music, videos, and real-world examples to teach students the foundations of artificial intelligence.

February 24, 2020

Luis Videgaray, director of MIT’s AI Policy for the World Project, talking at his Starr Forum lecture, hosted by the Center for International Studies, on February 19, 2020.

A road map for artificial intelligence policy

In a Starr Forum talk, Luis Videgaray, director of MIT’s AI Policy for the World Project, outlines key facets of regulating new technologies.

February 20, 2020

Admiral William McRaven to speak at MIT’s 2020 Commencement

Retired Navy four-star admiral and former chancellor of University of Texas system will address the Class of 2020 on May 29.