IDEAS winners aim to improve the world’s “quality of life”
Contest awards thousands of dollars to 13 teams tackling environmental and health challenges in developing countries.
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MIT alumnus Mohammed Abdul Latif Jameel gives major gift to solve urgent challenges in world food and water security
Professor John Lienhard will lead the new laboratory.
Syncing IT with executive vision
George Westerman develops executive-level strategies for maximizing business value through digital technology
Terahertz imaging on the cheap
New theory could reduce number of sensors required for high-resolution imaging systems.
Computer system automatically solves word problems
Applications could include educational tools, systems to solve practical geometry or physics problems.
CEE seed funding fosters multidisciplinary research
Program encourages new approaches to grand challenges in energy, environment, and sustainable materials and cities.
MIT team wins Clean Energy Prize for solving solar’s shade problem
Unified Solar takes home $225,000 for a circuit that augments the output of partially shaded solar cells.
Solving a mystery of thermoelectrics
New analysis explains why some materials are good thermal insulators while similar ones are not.
Welcome to the nano age
MIT.nano will help researchers apply the power of nanotechnology to solve big problems.
New building will be a hub for nanoscale research
“MIT.nano,” to be built in the heart of campus, will house advanced cleanroom, imaging, and prototyping facilities.
Doing more
AeroAstro’s flexible degree program helped Kwami Williams pursue his passion to change the world.
Biotech to the rescue
Ram Sasisekharan’s startups provide novel methods to fight disease and make better drugs.
Brewing up sustainability
Novel system devised by MIT spinout Cambrian Innovation uses microbes to treat, extract power from wastewater.
Smart components that assemble themselves
Skylar Tibbits launches the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, where researchers are building materials that can coalesce on their own to form structures.
Goodbye, USA; Sawubona, South Africa!
Terrascope student sees firsthand the complexity of water security in South Africa.