Coming together on climate
Hackathon for Climate brings students, faculty, staff, and alumni together on climate change solutions.
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Riddle of cement’s structure is finally solved
Findings may guide development of formulas to make the material more durable, less CO2-intensive.
Visible hand
Startup meshes crowdfunding and bond markets to change how cities are built
With Neighborly, Jase Wilson meshes crowdfunding and bond markets to change how cities are built.
Computer science meets economics
Constantinos Daskalakis adapts techniques from theoretical computer science to game theory.
A virtual “guide dog” for navigation
Low-power chip processes 3-D camera data, could enable wearable device to guide the visually impaired.
Dispatches from the Paris climate talks
MIT attendees of COP21 share experiences, perspectives on outcomes
Curing disease by repairing faulty genes
New delivery method boosts efficiency of CRISPR genome-editing system.
Learning to solve
Hallmark program “SuperUROP” lets undergrad engineers dive into a year-long research experience.
Incentives matter
Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.
Symposium calls for science-based climate action
Experts examine how MIT can be most effective in addressing climate-change issues.
Computer science and engineering major helps people while having fun
Senior Sami Alsheikh helps others, solves problems, and has fun doing both.
Second-round MindHandHeart Innovation Fund grant recipients announced
Grants totaling $24,870 were awarded to seven proposals in the second Innovation Fund cycle.
Georgia Perakis: On the road to better energy data
MIT professor uses operations research and optimization modeling to investigate topics from traffic flows to subsidies for green energy technologies.
A new quantum approach to big data
System for handling massive digital datasets could make impossibly complex problems solvable.