Making change
PhD student Dina El-Zanfaly studies learning through making — with one eye on her native Egypt.
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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.
Diagnosing “broken" buildings to make them greener
Startup’s software detects inefficient equipment in facilities — saving energy, time, and money.
Achieving energy efficiency with “Local Warming”
MIT researchers develop a system that creates personalized climates around individuals — an alternative to heating entire buildings.
Resonating MIT
Exploring the sounds of campus with visiting artists Scanner, Stephen Vitiello, and Either/Or