Seeing nature through a molecular engineer’s eye
Alfredo Alexander-Katz probes systems in action, from clotting blood to walking molecules.
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Assessing health impacts of policies and plans
New class offers urban planners tools to explore the intersection of city planning and public health.
D-Lab Scale-Ups awards four fellowships totaling $80,000 to social entrepreneurs
Fellows work on low-cost microgrids, prosthetics made from cane, hands-on STEM education in Ghana, and a rechargeable headlamp for rural Indian farmers.
Designing climate-friendly concrete, from the nanoscale up
New understanding of concrete’s properties could increase lifetime of the building material, decrease emissions.
Growing season
New professional education program on agriculture, innovation, and the environment attracts global agricultural leaders to MIT.
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
Silk-based filtration material breaks barriers
Engineers find nanosized building blocks of silk hold the secrets to improved filtration membranes.
Supercharging undergraduate research
Now open to the entire School of Engineering, SuperUROP is creating an interdisciplinary community of scholars.
Solving the mystery of the Antarctic’s missing heat
New research may explain why sea temperatures around Antarctica haven’t risen as much as surface temperatures around the globe.
Department of Mechanical Engineering wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
Emmy-winning video chronicles Professor Ioannis Yannas’ discovery of organ regeneration in the 1970s.
Study: Molecular motors shape chromosome structure
By organizing chromosomes into many tiny loops, molecular motors play key role cell division.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the Class of 2016
"You made MIT better. And now you will make a better world," Reif tells more than 2,800 new graduates.
Rainer Weiss awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy
Physics professor emeritus shares prize with Caltech's Kip Thorne and Ronald Drever for designing the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
Finding wonderland
Senior Marie Elimbi Moudio enters a “weird place” and discovers a world of possibility.
From MOOC to bootcamp to MIT
Two students with entrepreneurial spirit found their way into the Class of 2020 through MITx.