Photos: Moungi Bawendi’s first day as a Nobel laureate
A look at how the MIT professor spent his day after learning he had won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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MIT Professor Moungi Bawendi shares Nobel Prize in Chemistry
For his work on techniques to generate quantum dots of uniform size and color, Bawendi is honored along with Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov.
Fellowship program empowers Nigerian academics to transform engineering education in their local universities
“Empowering the Teachers” provides an immersive and innovative training experience for young African academics.
“A whole world of potential learners and potential knowledge to gain”
MIT Digital Learning Lab advances quality digital learning on campus and globally.
Improving accessibility of online graphics for blind users
Open-source software by MIT MAD Fellow Jonathan Zong and others in the MIT Visualization Group reveals online graphics’ embedded data in the user’s preferred degree of granularity.
One scientist’s journey from the Middle East to MIT
Through his leadership and vision, McGovern Institute postdoc Ubadah Sabbagh aims to improve the scientific process in the US and abroad.
MIT announces 2023 Bose Grants for daring new research
Grants fund studies of honeybee tracking, glass building materials, and defining excellence in human movement.
Quantum repeaters use defects in diamond to interconnect quantum systems
This technology for storing and transmitting quantum information over lossy links could provide the foundation for scalable quantum networking.
MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2023-24
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
Have you heard about the “whom of which” trend?
An MIT student and linguistics professor spot an emerging English phrase and examine what it tells us about syntax — but questions remain.
Five MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators
The program supports “outstanding theoretical scientists.”
3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering
Co-directors Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou describe how the standalone degree aims to train students in cross-cutting aspects of computational science and engineering.
School of Science welcomes new faculty in 2023
Sixteen professors join the departments of Biology; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; Mathematics; and Physics.
Professor Emerita Evelyn Fox Keller, influential philosopher and historian of science, dies at 87
The pathbreaking thinker helped reshape discussions of science, gender, and objectivity, as well as biological determinism, in her lauded career.