Adding hands-on practice to science and engineering classes
A new advising seminar incorporates making and other types of hands-on learning to enhance first-year required courses.
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In London, a celebration of MIT’s innovative spirit and growing European community
The Better World series will continue in Tel Aviv, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Washington.
Smart city fixtures
Startup brings solar-powered, phone-charging park benches and digital signs to cities worldwide.
Art, engineering, and architecture
Freshman seminar inspires students to see the world with fresh eyes.
Kripa Varanasi: Innovating at interfaces
MIT engineer’s research on surfaces is improving everything from power plants to ketchup bottles.
Feng Zhang named James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience
CRISPR pioneer named to inaugural chair created by Patricia and James Poitras '63, founders of MIT’s Poitras Center for Affective Disorders Research.
MIT in London
The city offers an ideal home for MIT alumni whose work spans disciplines and continents.
U.S. Department of Energy announces MIT Energy Initiative will join new Manufacturing USA Institute
MITEI faculty affiliates to contribute clean energy expertise to national coalition that will address manufacturing challenges in energy-intensive processing industries.
Campus greenhouse gas emissions down 7 percent since 2014
MIT releases results of its second campus-wide inventory.
John Kerry: Climate drive an urgent “race against time”
At MIT, U.S. Secretary of State highlights peril of climate change, economic promise of clean energy.
How engineering students are seeking to solve major food and water security problems
Students with a common passion for food and water security share their research at the MIT Water and Food Security Symposium.
Model sheds light on purpose of inhibitory neurons
Study suggests computational role for neurons that prevent other neurons from firing.
Researchers design one of the strongest, lightest materials known
Porous, 3-D forms of graphene developed at MIT can be 10 times as strong as steel but much lighter.