Proposal aims to update MIT’s academic calendar and Commencement timing
Vice chancellor, registrar seek community input on reducing the time between final exams and Commencement.
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A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency
Design reduces by 99 percent the data users need to join the network and verify transactions.
3Q: On the significance of Ultima Thule
New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
Stephen Buchwald awarded 2019 Wolf Prize for chemistry
Honor shared with John Hartwig of the University of California at Berkeley for their development of a process to improve the synthesis of large organic molecules.
Democratizing app development
Thunkable gives noncoders the ability to create professional-grade mobile apps.
Democratizing data science
Tool for nonstatisticians automatically generates models that glean insights from complex datasets.
Researchers catalog defects that give 2-D materials amazing properties
Theoretical analysis distinguishes observed “holes” from the huge list of hypothetically possible ones.
ACCESS shows grad school's rigors and rewards
Undergraduates from across the country learn the benefits of continuing their education in chemistry, chemical engineering, and materials science.
Tackling greenhouse gases
Faculty in the Department of Mechanical Engineering are developing technologies that store, capture, convert, and minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
“You don’t learn this in class”
Students in the MIT Energy Initiative Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program build professional skills.
Empowering impoverished artisans through fashion
Soko uses a mobile-based supply chain to give artisans in Kenya access to the fashion world.
DNA design that anyone can do
Computer program can translate a free-form 2-D drawing into a DNA structure.
Physicists record “lifetime” of graphene qubits
First measurement of its kind could provide stepping stone to practical quantum computing.
Q&A: Why business leaders should — yes — ask questions
MIT Sloan’s Hal Gregersen talks about his new book, “Questions Are the Answer.”
This MIT professor uncovers secrets to better investing
MIT Sloan’s Eric So sheds new light on investor behavior and stock markets.