Incentives matter Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India. January 29, 2016 Read full story →
Symposium calls for science-based climate action Experts examine how MIT can be most effective in addressing climate-change issues. January 29, 2016 Read full story →
Computer science and engineering major helps people while having fun Senior Sami Alsheikh helps others, solves problems, and has fun doing both. January 29, 2016 Read full story →
Second-round MindHandHeart Innovation Fund grant recipients announced Grants totaling $24,870 were awarded to seven proposals in the second Innovation Fund cycle. January 27, 2016 Read full story →
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. January 27, 2016 Read full story →
A new quantum approach to big data System for handling massive digital datasets could make impossibly complex problems solvable. January 25, 2016 Read full story →
Empowering innovation Panel highlighting female innovators from a range of fields aims to encourage student entrepreneurs. January 22, 2016 Read full story →
MIT Sloan launches three new undergraduate majors and minors Course 15 will offer undergraduates three new majors — management, business analytics, and finance — starting this fall. January 21, 2016 Read full story →
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting. January 21, 2016 Read full story →
Celebrating the "Pleasures of Poetry" at MIT Now in its 20th season, a popular poetry series provides the MIT community with new voices and verbal harmonies — and a window into MIT's varied poetry offerings. January 19, 2016 Read full story →
Space: The here-and-now frontier MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics launches a new generation of innovators. January 19, 2016 Read full story →
Drones dodge obstacles Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to do donuts, figure-eights in object-filled environments. January 19, 2016 Read full story →
Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti. January 13, 2016 Read full story →
MIT releases institutional greenhouse gas inventory Data set a baseline for campus climate action. January 13, 2016 Read full story →
Computer model matches humans at predicting how objects move “3-D physics engine” from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory simulates the human brain to infer physical properties. January 4, 2016 Read full story →