Opera star Renée Fleming explores music and minds in MIT talk
Compton Lecture delves into the frontiers of exploration linking neuroscience, music, and health.
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Using machine learning to improve subseasonal climate forecasting
Professor of biology Ernest Fraenkel and visiting scientist Judah Cohen win the Sub-Seasonal Climate Forecast Rodeo competition.
Streamlining restaurant operations
Alumni-founded Toast provides technologies that help get an order from a customer to the kitchen and back again.
Taking the world by storm
Jordan Benjamin, a double major in physics and atmospheric science, studies the weather inside and out of the classroom.
Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
Visiting fellows engage with students in the School of Architecture and Planning to create startups aimed at social impact.
Computing the future
Fireside chat brings together six Turing Award winners to reflect on their field and the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing.
Negotiating with infrastructure cyberterrorists
Researchers design a negotiation strategy to help cities and organizations minimize losses when their data are held hostage.
2019 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Professors Angrist, Demaine, Jones, and Taylor receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching.
Dan Huttenlocher named inaugural dean of MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
Alumnus and founding dean of Cornell Tech in New York City will return to MIT this summer.
Climate change makes summer weather stormier yet more stagnant
Study finds rising temperatures feed more energy to thunderstorms, less to general circulation.
J-WAFS grants advance sustainable agriculture
Two new J-WAFS Solutions commercialization grants will support novel technologies that aim to improve the economics and resiliency of farming.
Podcast reveals the tough reality of building a business
Frederic Kerrest MBA ’09 recently launched the podcast "Zero to IPO" to help entrepreneurs with each stage of the startup journey.
Finding love in the lab
Mechanical engineering alumni and married couple Larissa Nietner and Scott Nill started their relationship — and two companies — as MIT graduate students.
Thirty-six MIT students selected as 2019 Burchard Scholars
In a dinner-seminar program of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills.
3Q: The symbiosis of chemistry and choreography
Dance gives graduate student Lindsey Orgren an artistic outlet and fuels her passion for research, adding immeasurable value to her MIT experience.