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Janus emulsion droplets are captured in the process of changing form in response to the presence of contamination by a food pathogen in a lab setting. The emulsions can be viewed by the naked eye and, with the aid of a handheld sensor currently in development, can quantify the presence and amount of bacterial contamination in food.

MIT spinout seeks to transform food safety testing

An affordable, easy-to-use handheld sensor, soon to enter the market, can indicate the presence of bacterial contaminants in food in seconds.

April 9, 2019

The researchers found that traditional long-term strategies, which employ rigid schedules for future road treatments, may overestimate total life-cycle costs.

Paving ahead: Model aims for infrastructure preservation

MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub researchers outline a new pavement maintenance model that accounts for future uncertainties in cost and deterioration.

April 8, 2019

Alec Dingee in front of the former VMS office in the early 2000s

Alexander Dingee, co-founder of MIT Venture Mentoring Service, dies at 88

Successful entrepreneur launched VMS with David Staelin to provide young innovators with advice from others who understand the challenges of building a business.

April 5, 2019

Construction of the new Compound Semiconductor Laboratory-Microsystems Integration Facility is due to begin in late 2019.

New facilities will keep Lincoln Laboratory at the forefront of advanced prototyping

Facility modernization plan includes a new compound semiconductor laboratory and microsystem integration facility that will enable modern innovation.

April 3, 2019

Squire Booker PhD ’94 to speak at 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony

MIT alumnus, now a professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Penn State University, is an expert on enzyme reactions.

April 3, 2019

Leaders of the MIT Innovation Initiative say the new Proto Ventures Program will be unlike anything else in higher education.

With new Proto Ventures Program, MIT Innovation Initiative turns ideas into impact

MITii will hire experts to pursue new business opportunities by matching MIT expertise and innovation with real-world problems.

April 2, 2019

“At its core, the most important city planning questions are: Are we taking the time to observe and listen to the challenges communities are facing? Are we willing to be a bridge and make connections in spaces where we have power to? And how do we create platforms for people’s voices to be heard without being translators?” says Dasjon Jordan, a second-year master’s student in the Departmen...

Locally grown

Graduate student Dasjon Jordan brings neighborhood roots to urban planning.

March 21, 2019

A group of academic institutions has granted a license for SHERLOCK, the highly-sensitive, low-cost CRISPR-based diagnostic, for commercial uses in the developed world, while reserving rights to enable its broad use by organizations to serve developing nations as well as unmet public health needs in the developed world.

Academic institutions grant commercial license for CRISPR-based SHERLOCK diagnostic technology in developed world

Rights are protected for broad use in developing world and for public health needs.

March 21, 2019

The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research is seeking community input on ways to support and increase the open sharing of MIT publications, data, software, and educational materials.

Open access task force releases draft recommendations

The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.

March 18, 2019

Singer Renée Fleming delivering the Spring 2019 Compton Lecture at MIT’s Kresge Auditorium on Monday, March 11, 2019.

Opera star Renée Fleming explores music and minds in MIT talk

Compton Lecture delves into the frontiers of exploration linking neuroscience, music, and health.

March 12, 2019

The combination of machine learning techniques and historical weather-pattern recognition can help the government maximize water resources and prepare for natural disasters or extreme weather conditions.

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.

March 11, 2019

Toast's newest product, Toast Go, is a fully integrated, handheld point of sale (POS) system.

Streamlining restaurant operations

Alumni-founded Toast provides technologies that help get an order from a customer to the kitchen and back again.

March 10, 2019

Jordan Benjamin uses a rotating water tank to demonstrate the bridge between observation and theory underlying weather and climate phenomena.

Taking the world by storm

Jordan Benjamin, a double major in physics and atmospheric science, studies the weather inside and out of the classroom.

March 9, 2019

Israeli and Palestinian fellows from Our Generation Speaks work with MIT student interns at MITdesignX, a venture accelerator in the School of Architecture and Planning, to develop startups that tackle urban and design issues.

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.

March 7, 2019

MIT A.M. Turing Award winners discuss MIT's new College of Computing: (l-r) Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Shafi Goldwasser, Butler Lampson, Barbara Liskov, Ronald Rivest, Michael Stonebraker, and Daniela Rus.

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.

March 5, 2019

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