Renewing a place of faith
Iconic MIT Chapel closes until 2015 for a substantial renewal; programs move to other locations.
Search Stories
Five professors join the School of Science this fall
New faculty members will join the departments of Chemistry, Mathematics, and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences.
Sheila Kennedy honored for design innovation
Exploring intersections of architecture, digital networks and public space
Pushing the envelope in power electronics
Research improves power conversion in applications ranging from giant server farms to lamps to handheld devices.
Fifth edition of Building Global Innovators announces selection of startups
21 startups joining the accelerator will vie for four Caixa Capital Awards worth up to 500,000 euros in financial support.
Going to the Red Planet
An MIT oxygen-creating instrument has been selected to fly on the upcoming Mars 2020 mission.
Making change
PhD student Dina El-Zanfaly studies learning through making — with one eye on her native Egypt.
Coolhunting the secrets of success
Peter Gloor studies communications networks to find the patterns that characterize successful organizations and spot emerging trends.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Rethinking architecture
Mark Goulthorpe teaches and practices new design and construction logics for the next generation of high-performance buildings.
Mark Jarzombek named interim dean of the School of Architecture and Planning
Historian, critic, and theorist has been a faculty member since 1996 and associate dean since 2007.
Novel bromine battery: Small-scale demo, large-scale promise
Low-cost, high-capacity, rechargeable battery could one day enable widespread adoption of intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind.
Researchers unveil experimental 36-core chip
Design lets chip manage local memory stores efficiently using an Internet-style communication network.
Graduate student Kaitlin Goldstein dies in India
Fourth-year student in architecture had been missing since a morning run on June 14.