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A dynamic group of MIT undergraduates with diverse leadership experiences forms Four Consulting, including (from left to right) Shreesh Naik, Allison Park, Carter Chang, Paula Gonzalez, Albert Kao, Moya Chin, Sarah Simon and Ruisi Shang.

Four Consulting helps student groups overcome organizational barriers

Group of experienced student leaders taps tools and collective brainpower to solve wide range of problems.

July 10, 2012

Matthew Orosz stands with a parabolic solar collector in Lesotho in January 2006. During this trip, funded by IDEAS awards and Public Service Center fellowships, Orosz and his team deployed their second field prototype.

Matthew Orosz awarded Echoing Green Fellowship to further off-grid energy work

Newly minted MIT PhD selected for two-year social entrepreneurship fellowship.

July 5, 2012

Book details a new model for sharing water

Sure, water is in great demand — but that doesn’t mean supply is a zero-sum game among neighboring countries, an MIT professor says in a new book.

July 3, 2012

A section of the Whirlwind computer is shown here on display in the MIT Museum during last year's MIT150 celebration.

IEEE honors MIT milestones in computing and navigation

World’s first real-time digital computer and electronic navigation system are commemorated in Boston.

June 28, 2012

One of Mosh's advantages over SSH, the program it updates for the mobile-computing age, is that it doesn't need to wait for a response from a remote computer before displaying keystrokes on-screen. Mosh's guesses about what to display are underlined until confirmed.

Communication scheme makes popular applications ‘gracefully mobile’

New MIT software keeps tens of thousands of people logged into remote computers from mobile devices, but the underlying technology could improve a host of other programs.

June 28, 2012

Disordered materials, such as this slice of amorphous silicon (a material often used to make solar cells), have been very difficult to model mathematically. New mathematical methods developed at MIT should help with such modeling.

New technique allows simulation of noncrystalline materials

Multidisciplinary team develops mathematical approach that could help in simulating materials for solar cells and LEDs.

June 22, 2012

Members of the Essmart Global team pose after winning in the IDEAS Global Challenge in May. (L-R) Jackie Stenson, Diana Jue '09, MCP '12, Taylor Matthews G

Essmart Global awarded grand prize in Dell Social Innovation Competition

MIT IDEAS Global Challenge team wins $50,000 in international competition.

June 15, 2012

MIT and CNRS Sign Institutional Partnership

International Joint Unit will be staffed at MIT with French researchers and MIT professors.

June 15, 2012

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers the Charge to the Graduates during the Commencement ceremony. This was Hockfield's final Commencement as president of MIT.

President Susan Hockfield’s charge to the 2012 graduates

‘Now is the moment for us to send you forth … to put MIT’s spirit and principles to work around the globe.’

June 8, 2012

Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology admits 21 to master’s program

June 7, 2012

Madrid-MIT Consortium holds international conference in Madrid

Interdisciplinary dialogue among global leaders focuses on developing strong biomedical innovation ecosystems.

June 5, 2012

Engineers at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology in Ethiopia conduct tests on a CoolComply prototype.

In the World: MIT-designed cooler preserves tuberculosis drugs, records doses

A simple cooler could help patients battle antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.

May 30, 2012

MIT-engineered device injects drug without needles, delivering a high-velocity jet of liquid that breaches the skin at the speed of sound.

Device may inject a variety of drugs without using needles

Jet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.

May 24, 2012

Daskalakis wins Microsoft Faculty Fellowship

May 23, 2012

President Susan Hockfield and freshman Danny Ben-David, the 2012 iCampus Prize grand-prize winner.

CourseRoad, Dormbase win 2012 iCampus Student Prizes

CourseRoad named grand prize winner; Dormbase named runner-up