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Thirty-one MIT community members were named to this year’s list, including 25 alumni.

More than 30 from MIT named to Forbes 30 Under 30 lists

Forbes calls its 2019 30 Under 30 honorees “a collection of bold risk-takers who are putting a new twist on the old tools of the trade.”

December 7, 2018

Image courtesy of Bloomberg Philanthropies

Michael Bloomberg to deliver MIT’s 2019 Commencement address

Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and three-term New York City mayor will address the Class of 2019 on June 7.

December 6, 2018

Video from "The Laughing Room," an interactive installation at Cambridge Public Library, was shown live on monitors at Hayden Library and streamed online.

Inside "The Laughing Room"

An artificial intelligence-powered laugh track amuses and unsettles in interactive installations by Jonny Sun.

December 5, 2018

Left to right: Pablo Ducru and Michael Shum

Two from MIT named Schwarzman Scholars for 2020

Pablo Ducru and Michael Shum ’17, MEng ’18 will study at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

December 3, 2018

The twin detectors of LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory, are located in Louisiana and Washington. The Livingston detector site, located near Livingston, Louisiana, is pictured here.

LIGO and Virgo announce four new gravitational-wave detections

The observatories are also releasing their first catalog of gravitational-wave events.

December 3, 2018

Clockwise from top left: Crystal Winston, Katie O’Nell, Kyle Swanson, Anna Sappington, and Radha Mastandrea

Five MIT students named 2019 Marshall Scholars

Radha Mastandrea, Katie O’Nell, Anna Sappington, Kyle Swanson, and Crystal Winston will begin graduate studies in the UK next fall.

December 2, 2018

The principal researchers of Lincoln Laboratory's 12 finalists for 2018 R&D 100 Awards pose with Lincoln Laboratory Director Eric Evans (far left). The principal researchers of the 10 winning technologies are holding their award plaques.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory wins 10 R&D 100 Awards

Technologies ranging from a hurricane-evacuation decision platform to algorithms that compare DNA samples honored as some of the world's best inventions of 2018.

November 30, 2018

MIT Kavli Institute director Jacqueline Hewitt stands with a prototype of one of the four cameras aboard the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS) instrument. Hewitt, who has overseen the TESS mission from NASA proposal to satellite launch in April, will step down as Kavli Institute director in January.

Jacqueline Hewitt to step down as director of the MIT Kavli Institute

Physics professor brought leadership, resources, and an intellectual focus to the MIT astrophysics faculty and research staff during 15 years at the helm.

November 29, 2018

Letter regarding topics for MIT's upcoming climate symposia

November 28, 2018

Professor Jae Lim (left) worked with Jack Turner extensively on the development of HDTV technology and named this new award to recognize the contributions of Turner and the MIT Technology Licensing Office to the development of MIT intellectual property.

Jack Turner Entrepreneurship Award established to support electronics research

Generous $1 million gift recognizes the collaborations of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Technology Licensing Office to develop MIT intellectual property.

November 27, 2018