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A lively streetscape extending Broad Canal Way into the Volpe site, with active uses and retail leading pedestrians and bicyclists into the open space.

MIT files rezoning petition for Volpe site

Submittal of mixed-use proposal launches public hearing process.

June 21, 2017

Left to right: School of Engineering Dean Ian A. Waitz, graduate student Mary Elizabeth Wagner, and Alan Oppenheim '59, ScD '64, who is a sponsor of the School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring.

School of Engineering awards for 2017

Awards given to outstanding faculty, undergraduates, and graduate students.

June 21, 2017

The 2017 DUE Infinite Mile Award winners: (left to right) Tyrene Jones, Jeanne Hillery, Dean Dennis Freeman, Latasha Boyd, Melissa Martin-Greene, Michael Bergren, Elizabeth Vogel Taylor, Lauren McKown, and Katherine Wahl.

Dean for Undergraduate Education announces 2017 Infinite Mile Award recipients

Annual celebration of excellence honors staff for contributions on behalf of students, the department, and the Institute.

June 20, 2017

Course 21A.157 (The Meaning of Life), examines how a variety of cultural traditions approach the question of how to live with purpose. Here Brother David Vryhof explains the beliefs followed by brothers at the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, a monastery on Memorial Drive.

In search of a meaningful life

Popular MIT anthropology course offers contemplation and dialogue on life's big questions.

June 15, 2017

At a "pitch and demo" DesignX accelerator event, Department of Urban Studies and Planning student Riddhi Shah, lead for the Kumej project, makes her pitch to the crowd. Kumej is a light, collapsible seat designed to enable underprivileged students in India to carry and create their own comfortable work surface, whether at a construction site where their parents work or in a rural school.

Design innovations for improved life in cities

Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment.

June 13, 2017

This futuristic drawing shows programmable nanophotonic processors integrated on a printed circuit board and carrying out deep learning computing.

New system allows optical “deep learning”

Neural networks could be implemented more quickly using new photonic technology.

June 12, 2017

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2017-18

Ranked at the top for the sixth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 46 disciplines.

June 8, 2017

Senior Mary Hwang (left) presents her capstone research to graduate student Madison Noteware, staff member Sarah Smith, and Professor Oral Buyukozturk at the CEE Senior Celebration and Awards Ceremony.

Engineers, awards, and a band

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering banquet recognizes the Class of 2017 and outstanding members of the CEE community.

June 2, 2017

MIT Press is known for publishing interdisciplinary scholarship that crosses traditional boundaries. The Internet Archive has begun digitizing MIT Press’ backlist; 1,500 deep backlist works should be available by the end of 2017.

MIT Press teams with Internet Archive and Arcadia to provide access to hundreds of backlist titles

Press' first major digitization endeavor ushers in a new era of access.

May 30, 2017

Internet of things: Let the avatars talk to each other

Sanjay Sarma has focused his research on new uses for RFID and security for the internet of things.

May 30, 2017

Participants at Sustainability Connect 2017 engaged in a workshop to explore what kinds of sustainability goals MIT might set in the future, on topics ranging from resilient buildings to food systems.

Sustainability Connect 2017 brings MIT together to balance needs of the present and future

Third annual conference explores innovation, social justice, and the Institute as a living lab for sustainability.

May 26, 2017

Researchers at MIT have explored the secrets behind the conch shell’s extraordinary impact resilience. The findings are reported in a new study by MIT graduate student Grace Gu (right), postdoc Mahdi Takaffoli (left), and McAfee Professor of Engineering Markus Buehler.

Conch shells spill the secret to their toughness

Three-tiered structure of these impact-resistant shells could inspire better helmets, body armor.

May 26, 2017

"We can’t only care about global-scale climate change; we also need to consider the local quality of life because these two things are closely related. If you want to know more about China’s future, you need to understand its local life," says Siqi Zheng, faculty director of the Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab.

3Q: Siqi Zheng on air quality and urban development in China

Author of “Blue Skies over Beijing” links Chinese air quality and urban development.

May 19, 2017

This breathable workout suit prototype has ventilating flaps that open and close in response to an athlete’s body heat and sweat. The left photo was taken before exercise when ventilation flaps are flat; after exercise, the ventilation flaps have curved.

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.

May 19, 2017

The winning team Lightmatter pose with organizers and friends.

MIT $100K winner’s optical chips perform AI computations at light speed

A flushless toilet that shrinks waste and a device that detects leaky pipes also won top prizes.

May 18, 2017

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