Senior Vice President and Corporation Secretary Greg Morgan to retire Suzanne Glassburn of MIT’s Office of the General Counsel will assume role. July 30, 2018 Read full story →
School of Science appoints eight faculty members to named professorships July 23, 2018 Read full story →
MIT European Club leads in giving back Club wins the MIT Outstanding Award for 2018 and surpasses the $240,000 mark in funding MISTI European Fellows. July 20, 2018 Read full story →
Kristala Prather: Advancing energy-efficient biochemistry Associate professor of chemical engineering talks about the future of biochemistry and the next generation of scientists and engineers. July 16, 2018 Read full story →
Three MIT-incubated ventures chosen for first Techstars Impact class Base Operations, MDaaS Global, and Graviky Labs will head to Texas to be part of the first class at the new elite accelerator. July 12, 2018 Read full story →
Etienne Demarly: Mastering fluid flow and bubble boil Through meticulous computations, nuclear science and engineering student Etienne Demarly simulates conditions inside a nuclear reactor. July 9, 2018 Read full story →
Yufei Zhao wins Future of Science Award Assistant professor honored for contributions to research in discrete mathematics, teaching, service, and outreach. July 9, 2018 Read full story →
Ties with MIT run deep for the US Navy’s top officer Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 poses global challenges to academe. July 6, 2018 Read full story →
Automating molecule design to speed up drug development Machine-learning model could help chemists make molecules with higher potencies, much more quickly. July 6, 2018 Read full story →
3 Questions: Historian Caley Horan on the rise of private insurance in the U.S. Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection. July 3, 2018 Read full story →
Alumni-founded robotic kitchen cooks up tasty meals Spyce, a robot-assisted restaurant located in Boston, was invented to respond to a common MIT student desire: good, low-cost food. July 2, 2018 Read full story →
Taming fusion with machine learning Postdoc Cristina Rea's detour into banking provides a new route back to plasma research. July 2, 2018 Read full story →
Bringing humanistic education in technical subjects to the world Students and staff combine workshopping and OpenCourseWare to demonstrate human-centered pedagogies in the context of modern topics and technologies. June 28, 2018 Read full story →
Researchers decode molecule that gives living tissues their flexibility Study reveals atomic structure of tropoelastin, showing what goes wrong in some diseases. June 25, 2018 Read full story →
MIT scientists discover fundamental rule of brain plasticity Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken. June 22, 2018 Read full story →