Michael John Gorman named MIT Museum director
Kathryn Wysocki Gunsch, the museum’s deputy director, will serve as interim director until Gorman takes up his post this summer.
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AI meets climate: MIT Energy and Climate Hack 2023
The Energy and Climate Hack presented opportunities for students and companies to collaborate and develop innovative solutions.
Automated system teaches users when to collaborate with an AI assistant
MIT researchers develop a customized onboarding process that helps a human learn when a model’s advice is trustworthy.
A mineral produced by plate tectonics has a global cooling effect, study finds
An accordion-textured clay called smectite efficiently traps organic carbon and could help buffer global warming over millions of years.
Serious play at the MIT Game Lab
This unique lab uses games as a way for students to play, explore, and learn to think critically about the role of games in society.
MIT students build connections with Black and Indigenous Brazilians to investigate culture and the environment
Travel offers students a chance to study how art and cultural activism can impact racial justice and environmental issues.
Working to beat the clock on climate change
At the 2023 Clean Energy Education and Empowerment symposium, participants emphasize working together to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
Robert van der Hilst to step down as head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Professor led EAPS for more than a decade, cultivating a focus on Earth systems, planets, climate science, and the origins of life.
Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security
The SecureLoop search tool efficiently identifies secure designs for hardware that can boost the performance of complex AI tasks, while requiring less energy.
The art of science and the science of art
“Making Art for Scientists” summer course at MIT invited scientists and engineers to explore new ways to visualize and represent their research.
Expanding higher education for incarcerated students
A commission co-led by The Educational Justice Institute at MIT has crafted a groundbreaking blueprint for the future of higher education in New England prisons.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 10 new faculty
New professors join Comparative Media Studies/Writing; Economics; Literature; Music and Theater Arts; Science, Technology, and Society; and Political Science.
Tiny magnetic beads produce an optical signal that could be used to quickly detect pathogens
The findings point to faster way to detect bacteria in food, water, and clinical samples.
SMART launches research group to advance AI, automation, and the future of work
Mens, Manus and Machina (M3S) will design technology, training programs, and institutions for successful human-machine collaboration.