DUSP, CRE, and STL Lab award $1.1 million in second round of faculty research funding
Nine grants awarded to MIT faculty and researchers.
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Is your meal really gluten free?
Portable sensor detects trace amounts of gluten in food at restaurants.
Featured video: Building a really big brain
Watch Brains@MIT create a 200-pound replica of a graduate student's brain.
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
An economist delves into charter schools
PhD student Elizabeth Setren brings data to bear on questions about local education policy.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering offering new minors, subjects this fall
CEE creates three new undergraduate minors, adds new subjects to extend choice and opportunity.
Eye-tracking system uses ordinary cellphone camera
Crowd-sourced data yields system that determines where mobile-device users are looking.
Technology and Policy Program celebrates 40 years
Special event marks four decades of TPP and looks to the future of technology and policy.
Scientists observe supermassive black hole feeding on cold gas
Findings suggest two dining styles for black holes.
Matt Damon celebrates his “fake graduation” while addressing the Class of 2016
“Turn toward the problems you see” Damon says; MIT President Reif urges graduates to prepare for “cosmic problem set.”
Scrutinizing radiation’s impact
Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Cody Dennett simulates conditions inside reactors to measure microscopic defects in irradiated materials.
Regina Barzilay named Delta Electronics Professor
Leader in human language technologies has been appointed the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
SustainabilityConnect 2016 brings MIT together around big ideas for campus and the globe
Second annual conference looks at MIT’s progress toward sustainability goals, and what remains to be done.
Study pinpoints timing of oxygen’s first appearance in Earth’s atmosphere
Beginning 2.33 billion years ago, atmospheric oxygen built up in just 10 million years.
Lung cancer “breathalyzer” wins $100K Entrepreneurship Competition
Team’s smartphone-connected device can detect lung cancer early from a single breath.