MindHandHeart announces a record 24 Community Innovation Fund projects
Fund has launched a special summer round to spearhead projects addressing mental health, well-being, and racial justice at MIT.
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$25 million gift launches ambitious new effort tackling poverty and climate change
The King Climate Action Initiative at J-PAL will develop large-scale climate-response programs for some of the world’s most vulnerable populations.
With Perseverance and a little MOXIE, MIT is going to Mars
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.
Ila Fiete studies how the brain performs complex computations
The MIT professor takes a mathematical approach to exploring memory, navigation, and other neural functions.
Arthur Samberg, philanthropist and MIT Corporation life member, dies at 79
Alumnus and Pequot Capital founder had a long and varied association with the Institute.
How to grow a cosmic magnetic field
Graduate student Muni Zhou shows how tiny magnetic seed fields can expand to cosmic proportions.
In his element in the chem lab and the kickboxing ring
PhD student Levi Knippel is dedicated to making the Department of Chemistry “a community that everyone wants to be a part of.”
Four MIT faculty members receive U.S. Department of Energy early career awards
Faculty from the departments of physics, chemical engineering, and mechanical engineering were selected for the 2020 Early Career Research Program.
Building a more sustainable MIT — from home
MIT’s Office of Sustainability puts lessons of resiliency into practice.
At home and abroad with MISTI 2020
MISTI’s popular programs adapt to changing global circumstances in the wake of Covid-19.
Bringing the benefits of in-person collaboration to the virtual world
The startup Spatial uses an augmented reality platform to make people feel like they’re working side by side.
MIT research on seawater surface tension becomes international guideline
Work by Professor John Lienhard and Kishor Nayar SM ’14, PhD ’19 was recently recognized by the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam.
Q&A: Meet MIT Alumni Association President Charlene Kabcenell ’79
A life member of the MIT Corporation, Kabcenell recently began her one-year term as president of the MIT Alumni Association.
A new approach to carbon capture
Researchers design an effective treatment for both exhaust and ambient air.