Incentives matter
Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.
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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.
Empowering innovation
Panel highlighting female innovators from a range of fields aims to encourage student entrepreneurs.
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.
New finding may explain heat loss in fusion reactors
Solving a longstanding mystery, MIT experiments reveal two forms of turbulence interacting.
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.
Space: The here-and-now frontier
MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics launches a new generation of innovators.
Drones dodge obstacles
Motion-planning algorithms allow drones to do donuts, figure-eights in object-filled environments.
Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing
Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti.
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.