Fighting toxic stress in children is tough but possible
Taking time to understand underlying causes of stress can help children escape debilitating health effects, symposium speakers argue.
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Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize for Invention
Award honors top collegiate inventors in the United States.
J-WAFS awards over $1.3 million in fourth round of seed grant funding
Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.
Removing health care barriers and boundaries
Through transformative use of telemedicine, researcher and instructor Amar Gupta hopes to achieve better, quicker, and less expensive health care for all.
A passion for service
Tchelet Segev, a senior in civil and environmental engineering, is making a better world at MIT and beyond through leadership and service.
Fundamental equations guide marine robots to optimal sampling sites
New principled approach helps autonomous underwater vehicles explore the ocean in an intelligent, energy-efficient manner.
How much does infrastructure boost an economy?
MIT economist’s historical study details how railroads helped India trade and grow.
Building AI systems that make fair decisions
Harini Suresh, a PhD student at MIT CSAIL, studies how to make machine learning algorithms more understandable and less biased.
Three MIT graduate students awarded 2018 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Award honors immigrants’ contributions to the United States.
Tata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio
MIT principal investigators will receive funding and support for projects seeking an impact in the developing world.
Dense stellar clusters may foster black hole megamergers
Black holes in these environments could combine repeatedly to form objects bigger than anything a single star could produce.
Simple, low-cost E. coli test wins MIT Water Innovation Prize
Nine student teams pitched solutions to global water issues at annual event.
3 Questions: Innovating for the clean energy economy
Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.
Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab holds second J-WEL Week
Representatives of member organizations and invited guests from 23 countries gather to promote excellence and transformation in global education.
CLIx project receives UNESCO award
The Connected Learning Initiative offers effective, quality education at scale in India.