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The antenna for Lincoln Laboratory's in-band full-duplex phased-array system is seen with its protective packaging removed to expose the individual antennas that compose the phased array.

Antenna system developed at Lincoln Laboratory aims to improve wireless communications

In-band full-duplex techniques applied to a phased-array antenna may provide a tenfold speedup in data transmit and receive rates while supporting a rapidly increasing number of wireless devices.

October 21, 2019

Two committees to examine MIT’s outside engagements

Chair of the faculty and provost announce committees to review practices related to gifts, as well as grants and collaborations.

October 15, 2019

MIT takes action in response to sexual misconduct survey findings

New measures on campus announced for advocacy, support, education, and accountability.

October 15, 2019

The 2019-2020 MLK Visiting Scholars and Professors: (l-r) Tina Opie, Matthew Schumaker, Rhonda Williams, Ben McDonald, Kasso Okoudjou, and Jamie Macbeth.

Meet the 2019-20 MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars

Six scholars and professors are spending this academic year in engagement with the MIT community.

October 8, 2019

MIT Press to develop a sustainable framework for open access monographs

$850,000 grant from Arcadia will allow exploration of alternatives to the traditional market-based business model for professional and scholarly monographs.

October 7, 2019

The first concert of MIT Sounding for 2019-20 was "The Music of Glenn Branca Live: Glenn Branca Ensemble/Ambient Orchestra." Pictured are Reg Bloor and Glenn Branca.

MIT Sounding 2019-20 explores far-reaching musical frontiers

This season of musical performances features a range of Boston premieres and diverse collaborations.

September 27, 2019

Students get to know each other at the GSC Welcome Dinner at Morss Hall.

Rethinking orientation for new grad students

Recent improvements aim to ease the transition to life at MIT, from day one and beyond.

September 24, 2019

Ruth Lehmann, a world-renowned developmental and cell biology researcher, will be Whitehead Institute’s fifth director.

Ruth Lehmann elected as director of Whitehead Institute

Lehmann, a world-renowned developmental and cell biology researcher, is the institute’s fifth director.

September 19, 2019

MIT named No. 3 university by US News for 2020

Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.

September 9, 2019

The MIT Haystack Observatory houses a specialized supercomputer called a correlator, which crunched data generated by the EHT project.

Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for black hole observation

Nearly 30 MIT-affiliated researchers will share in the prize, while David Jay Julius ’77 wins Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; assistant professor of physics Max Metlitski shares New Horizons prize with Xie Chen PhD ’12 and Michael Levin PhD ’06.

September 6, 2019

Building on the legacy of the Apollo program, MIT faculty, staff, and students are working toward the next great advances in space flight — ones that could propel humans back to the moon, and to parts still unknown.

Taking the next giant leaps

Fifty years after the first moon landing with Apollo 11, the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics looks to the future of space exploration at MIT.

September 5, 2019

Attendees at the MIT Better World San Diego event in March 2019

From city to city, MIT Better World connects alumni and ideas

New MIT Better World video playlist documents events touching on the science of teaching and learning, challenges in environment and sustainability, and more.

September 4, 2019

Members of GradSAGE, with School of Engineering Dean Anantha Chandrakasan (center). From left to right: Angela Acocella, Parker Vascik, Jessica Boles, Vamsi Mangena, Anantha Chandrakasan, Lucio Milanese, Laureen Meroueh, Benjamin Lienhard, Dhanushkodi Mariappan.

Students spearhead group to enhance the graduate experience

School of Engineering advisory group proposes a new leadership curriculum and stronger student-advisor relationships.

September 4, 2019

Optimus Ride has already deployed its autonomous transportation systems in the Seaport area of Boston, in a mixed-use development in South Weymouth, Massachusetts, and in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a 300-acre industrial park.

Optimus Ride’s autonomous system makes self-driving vehicles a reality

MIT startup’s unique approach to improving human mobility is helping it gain traction in a competitive landscape.

August 9, 2019

Left to right: MIT professors Eytan Modiano, Erin Kelly, and Ju Li.

Portraits of mentoring excellence

Committed to Caring honors professors Modiano, Kelly, and Li, and calls for nominations.

July 18, 2019

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