MIT in the media: 2025 in review
MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.
Search Stories
MIT community in 2025: A year in review
Top stories highlighted the Institute’s leading positions in world and national rankings; new collaboratives tackling manufacturing, generative AI, and quantum; how one professor influenced hundreds of thousands of students around the world; and more.
MIT’s top research stories of 2025
Concrete batteries, AI-developed antibiotics, the ozone’s recovery, and a more natural bionic knee were some of the most popular topics on MIT News.
Paula Hammond named dean of the School of Engineering
A chemical engineer who now serves as executive vice provost, Hammond will succeed Anantha Chandrakasan.
MIT cognitive scientists reveal why some sentences stand out from others
Sentences that are highly dissimilar from anything we’ve seen before are more likely to be remembered accurately.
Responding to the climate impact of generative AI
Explosive growth of AI data centers is expected to increase greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers are now seeking solutions to reduce these environmental harms.
Demo Day features hormone-tracking sensors, desalination systems, and other innovations
MIT student teams celebrate business milestones at the capstone event for the 2025 delta v summer accelerator.
A human-centered approach to data visualization
Balancing automation and agency, Associate Professor Arvind Satyanarayan develops interactive data visualizations that amplify human creativity and cognition.
3 Questions: The pros and cons of synthetic data in AI
Artificially created data offer benefits from cost savings to privacy preservation, but their limitations require careful planning and evaluation, Kalyan Veeramachaneni says.
A new way to test how well AI systems classify text
As large language models increasingly dominate our everyday lives, new systems for checking their reliability are more important than ever.
MIT gears up to transform manufacturing
The Initiative for New Manufacturing is convening experts across the Institute to drive a transformation of production across the U.S. and the world.
School of Architecture and Planning welcomes new faculty for 2025
Four new professors join the Department of Architecture and MIT Media Lab.
School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences welcomes 14 new faculty for 2025
New professors join Comparative Media Studies/Writing, History, Linguistics and Philosophy, Music and Theater Arts, and Political Science.
Celebrating an academic-industry collaboration to advance vehicle technology
MIT Advanced Vehicle Technology Consortium marks a decade of developing data that improve understanding of how drivers use and respond to increasingly sophisticated automotive features.