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Henry “Hank” Smith poses for a photo.

Professor Emeritus Hank Smith honored for pioneering work in nanofabrication

Longtime MIT electrical engineer receives SPIE Frits Zernike Award for Microlithography in recognition of outstanding accomplishments in microlithographic technology.

June 16, 2025

Bryan Reimer speaks on stage, standing next to a lectern

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.

June 16, 2025

Suzanne Freeman poses on a catwalk over an atrium

The shadow architects of power

PhD candidate Suzanne Freeman reveals how intelligence agencies shape foreign policy in authoritarian states.

June 11, 2025

Three people thinking

How the brain solves complicated problems

Study shows humans flexibly deploy different reasoning strategies to tackle challenging mental tasks — offering insights for building machines that think more like us.

June 11, 2025

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Inroads to personalized AI trip planning

A new framework from the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab supercharges language models, so they can reason over, interactively develop, and verify valid, complex travel agendas.

June 10, 2025

Book cover adjacent to portrait of Munther Dahleh

Melding data, systems, and society

A new book from Professor Munther Dahleh details the creation of a unique kind of transdisciplinary center, uniting many specialties through a common need for data science.

June 10, 2025

“Each of us holds a piece of the solution”

Campus gathers with Vice President for Energy and Climate Evelyn Wang to explore the Climate Project at MIT, make connections, and exchange ideas.

June 10, 2025

Scenes from a TV sitcom have labels on them like “#friends, #comedy, #speaking.”

Helping machines understand visual content with AI

Coactive, founded by two MIT alumni, has built an AI-powered platform to unlock new insights from content of all types.

June 9, 2025

A brain with city background.

How the brain distinguishes between ambiguous hypotheses

Neural activity patterns can encode competing hypotheses about which landmark will lead to the correct destination.

June 6, 2025

Cameron Dougal works amidst racks of clothing at an outdoor popup sale

Infinite Threads popup thrift store helps the MIT community and the planet

With items selling for as little as $2, the initiative diverted about 750 pounds of textiles from landfills in 2024-25.

June 6, 2025

Daron Acemoglu, leaning on a desk, teaching class

The math of politics and power

Institute Professor and Nobel Prize winner Daron Acemoglu teaches a PhD class about the intersections between history, political power, and money.

June 6, 2025

Rendering of a squishy green bouncing character.

Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects

The approach could help animators to create realistic 3D characters or engineers to design elastic products.

June 6, 2025

The Hubble Space Telescope, the Human Genome Project, and the Large Hadron Collider/CERN

Former MIT researchers advance a new model for innovation

Focused research organizations (FROs) undertake large research efforts and have begun to yield scientific advances.

June 6, 2025

A robot thinking

New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds

Researchers developed an algorithm that lets a robot “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously.

June 5, 2025

MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles at the podium

Chancellor Melissa Nobles’ address to MIT’s undergraduate Class of 2025

Nobles urged graduates to be “bold and imaginative” in tackling big problems, “and to do so with compassion and generosity.”

May 30, 2025