High school students receive Lemelson-MIT Program invention grants
InvenTeam grants awarded to students at 15 high schools nationwide to help bring their innovative ideas to life.
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SuperUROP raises bar for undergraduate research and innovation
EECS September kickoff reception features guest speakers Susan Hockfield and Ray Stata
Automatic speaker tracking in audio recordings
A new system dispenses with the human annotation of training data required by its predecessors but achieves comparable results.
‘Cool’ invention wins first place at MADMEC
Thermoelectric bracelet that helps people maintain a comfortable body temperature takes home $10,000 from MIT’s annual materials-science design competition.
Creating a permanent bacteria barrier
Startup Semprus Biosciences develops a permanent solution for keeping bacteria off implanted medical devices.
Thinking globally
Scholar and administrator Bernd Widdig holds a newly created position at MIT: director of international affairs.
Surprisingly simple scheme for self-assembling robots
Small cubes with no exterior moving parts can propel themselves forward, jump on top of each other, and snap together to form arbitrary shapes.
Ann Wolpert, director of libraries, has died at 70
Served MIT for 17 years; was leading light on role of the research library in the digital age.
Under the sea
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
New MITx course brings a classic MIT undergraduate experience into the age of digital learning.
Probing the surface of pyrite
Common mineral gets first detailed examination of its surface electronic properties, thanks to team of MIT researchers.
With NIH grant, Kay Tye will take on obesity
The MIT professor has earned a 2013 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to further her obesity research.
3 Questions: Scott Kemp on North Korea’s nuclear program
New study suggests that the secretive rogue state may have found a way to circumvent international controls on nuclear materials.