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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

May 23, 2012

CloudTop team members receive celebrate after winning the grand prize in MIT's $100K Business Plan Competition.

CloudTop takes top $100K competition prize

A record 215 teams competed in this year’s business plan competition.

May 17, 2012

The principle behind network coding is often explained by reference to a so-called butterfly network. When messages A and B reach the same node, they're scrambled together, and their combination (A+B) is passed to the next node. Further downstream, one node uses A to recover B from A+B, while another uses B to recover A from A+B.

The elusive capacity of networks

Calculating the total capacity of a data network is a notoriously difficult problem, but information theorists are beginning to make some headway.

May 15, 2012

The guiding light and the glass infrastructure

New developments in way finding

May 14, 2012

Robert Lepage accepts The Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT during a gala held in his honor.

Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26, 2012

Robert Lepage dazzles MIT community during spectacular campus residency April 24-26.

May 2, 2012

Dr. Ashok Gadgil, winner of the 2012 $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation.

Inventor honored for bridging innovation and humanitarianism to help millions globally live safer lives

Dr. Ashok Gadgil Receives $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation for Scientific Solutions to the Global Water Crisis, and Energy and Fuel Efficiency