3 Questions: Anuradha Annaswamy on building smart infrastructures
Senior research scientist and her team are designing intelligent systems that could someday transform the way we travel and consume energy.
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Merging design, tech, and cognitive science
Senior Ibuki Iwasaki seeks creative ways to design technology that considers the human user.
Courtney Lesoon and Elizabeth Yarina win Fulbright-Hays Scholarships
Prestigious grants will support full-time doctoral research abroad for the MIT architecture and urban planning students.
In Down syndrome cells, genome-wide disruptions mimic a senescence-like state
Extra chromosome alters chromosomal conformation and DNA accessibility in neural progenitor cells; study establishes senescence as a potentially targetable mechanism for future treatment.
At MIT, learning about the language, history, and art of Arabic
Calligrapher Hajj Wafaa shares insights about his craft while MIT Global Languages announces the arrival of Arabic classes.
Exploring growth within a confined space
Embedding bacteria in soft material tests researchers’ theories.
Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram, a leader in ship design and hydrodynamics, dies at 83
A pioneer of technologies associated with oceans, Milgram shaped oceanography and fluid mechanics education at MIT.
MIT in the media: 2021 in review
MIT community members made headlines around the world for their innovative approaches to addressing problems local and global.
Illuminating the history and global story of antibiotics
HASTS PhD student Rijul Kochhar tracks changing medical and microbial realities, and examines what they portend for society.
Tiny machine learning design alleviates a bottleneck in memory usage on internet-of-things devices
New technique applied to small computer chips enables efficient vision and detection algorithms without internet connectivity.
Feast or forage? Study finds circuit that helps a brain decide
By integrating multiple sensory inputs, a loop of mutual inhibition among a small set of neurons allows worms to switch between long-lasting behavioral states.
The intersection of math, computers, and everything else
Senior Shardul Chiplunkar aims to be a translator between the tech world and the rest of society.
How MIT students are transforming the art of narrative
A new exhibition explores the possibilities of virtual storytelling.
An energy-storage solution that flows like soft-serve ice cream
Researchers make the case for a semisolid electrochemical compound as a cost-efficient, grid-scale battery backup for wind and solar power.
MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech
Nine MIT researchers selected as finalists for 2021 prize supported by Northpond Ventures; grand prize winner to receive $250K toward commercializing her human health-related invention.