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Kerry Emanuel, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science and co-director of the Lorenz Center at MIT

Kerry Emanuel: This year’s hurricanes are a taste of the future

Climate scientist describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change.

September 21, 2017

Paul Gray was a devoted leader at MIT whose lifetime career at the Institute included turns as a student, professor, dean of engineering, associate provost, chancellor, president, and MIT Corporation chair.

Former MIT President Paul Gray dies at 85 after lifelong career of service and leadership at the Institute

Guided by a passion for teaching, MIT’s 14th president helped steer the Institute through decades of social change.

September 18, 2017

“I want students to realize that the advanced technologies we’re working on now are emerging in other countries, and will eventually become a reality here in the U.S., and students need to be ready when this new wave comes in,” says assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering Koroush Shirvan.

Research scientist Koroush Shirvan joins the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

Assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering leads projects for developing accident-tolerant fuel and optimizing nuclear energy technology.

September 14, 2017

“The concept of my startup is, ‘Let’s use hacker tools to defeat hackers,’” PhD student Gregory Falco says. “If you don’t know how to break it, you don’t know how to fix it.”

Gregory Falco: Protecting urban infrastructure against cyberterrorism

PhD student works at the intersection of urban planning and computer science.

September 5, 2017

“I found that what mattered at MIT was not where you come from or who you know, but what you contribute: Good ideas, new perspectives, hard work, and creativity,” said MIT President L. Rafael Reif at the 2017 Convocation. MIT, he said, “was the first place where I could stop feeling self-conscious, particularly about what interested me.”

President Reif to Class of 2021: “We are very lucky to have you!”

“MIT is a magnificent machine for inventing the future,” Reif tells incoming freshmen.

August 28, 2017

Tuesday night, at the inaugural Play Labs demo event, 13 startups presented products they’ve developed in the accelerator. Afterward, the crowd was treated to live demonstrations of the technologies.

Demo day showcases serious innovation in “playful” tech

Play Labs startups include virtual pets, nausea-reducing virtual reality games, and augmented-reality paintballing.

August 17, 2017

Agriculture is one of the industry sectors identified by the charter of MIT, and is inscribed inside the dome of Lobby 7 on campus. The MIT Professional Education short program Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and the Environment furthers this connection between research at MIT and industry practitioners.

Back to our roots

MIT short program, Innovation and Technology in Agriculture and the Environment, unifies industry and academia.

July 24, 2017

The Varanasi research group visits the MIT Central Utilities Plant cooling towers, where they will test their water-recapture technology with support from the new Campus Sustainability Incubator Fund.

New fund makes MIT a living sustainability lab

MIT Office of Sustainability announces awards to multi-departmental projects that test management, design, and operations solutions on campus.

July 21, 2017

At MIT graduate student Reginald Avery has been conducting research on a biomaterial that could stop wounded soldiers from dying from shock due to severe blood loss. “I wanted to do something related to the military because I grew up around that environment,” he says. “The people, the uniformed soldiers, and the well-controlled atmosphere created a good environment to grow up in, and I wante...

Preventing severe blood loss on the battlefield or in the clinic

PhD student Reginald Avery is developing an injectable material that patches ruptured blood vessels.

July 11, 2017

The Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine’s faculty is made up of Koch Institute members who are committed to fighting cancer with nanomedicine through research, education, and collaboration. Top row (l-r) Sangeeta Bhatia, director; Daniel Anderson; and Angela Belcher. Bottom row: Paula Hammond; Darrell Irvine; and Robert Langer.

Converging on cancer at the nanoscale

Marking its first anniversary, the Koch Institute’s Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine goes full steam ahead.

July 7, 2017

About30 gear icons in rainbow color assortment. Six of them have graphic of a person.

STEX event showcases innovations in fitness technology and science

Entrepreneurs, researchers, and industry experts build connections at workshop.

June 26, 2017

More than 140 students from five School of Engineering departments completed intensive SuperUROP research projects in the 2016-2017 academic year.

A deep dive into research

SuperUROP gives undergraduates the chance to immerse themselves in a year-long research project with supportive mentors to guide the way.

June 22, 2017

Graduate student Maria Zawadowicz is researching the interrelationship of particulate matter and cloud formation in the Cziczo Lab.

Measuring biological dust in the wind

A technique developed in the Cziczo Lab may be the most accurate way of identifying biological aerosols from mineral dust in the atmosphere and analyzing their contribution to cloud formation and climate change.

June 20, 2017

Left to right: Cooper Rinzler PhD '17, graduate student Youyang Zhao, and MIT Assistant Professor Antoine Allanore developed new formulas for predicting which molten compounds will be semiconducting and built a high-temperature thermoelectric device to produce electricity from molten semiconducting compounds that could reuse industrial waste heat.

Liquid tin-sulfur compound shows thermoelectric potential

MIT researchers create a high-temperature device that produces electricity from industrial waste heat.

June 12, 2017

The nine full term members, (left to right, top to bottom): Nancy C. Andrews ’85; Nicolas E. Chammas ’87; Arunas A. Chesonis ’84 (second term); José Antonio V. Fernández Carbajal; Perry Young Soo Ha ’85; Fariborz Maseeh ’90 (second term); Philip C. T. Ng ’85 (second term); Phillip T. Ragon ’72 (second term); and Anita Xiao Qi Wu ’16; David M. Siegel ’91 (partial term).

MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, four life members

Term members will each serve two or five years on MIT’s board of trustees.

June 8, 2017

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