Professor Esther Duflo's salute to the advanced degree recipients
"Pick your issue [to address], and go for it with all your heart, all your mind, and all your knowledge," Duflo told graduates.
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President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the class of 2020
"Find your calling! Solve the unsolvable! Invent the future! Take the high road," Reif urged graduates. "And you will continue to make your family, including your MIT family, proud."
William McRaven's Commencement address
"To save the world, you will have to be men and women of great integrity," McRaven told graduates.
Mathematics department recognized for STEM student enrichment program
Popular diversity and enrichment outreach program marks 10th anniversary with award as it adapts to Covid-19.
3 Questions: Seychelle Vos on detangling DNA
An unconventional geneticist uses cryogenic electron microscopy and crystallography to understand gene expression and cell fate.
Solve at MIT builds partnerships to tackle complex challenges during Covid-19 crisis
Event convened attendees from around the world to discuss impacts of the pandemic and advance solutions to pressing global problems.
A Ticketmaster for science seminars
Despite physical isolation, MIT mathematicians build one-stop portal to online talks around the world.
Eleven from MIT awarded 2020 Fulbright Fellowships
Graduating seniors and recent alumni will spend upcoming year abroad on Fulbright grants.
Deep learning accurately stains digital biopsy slides
Pathologists who examined the computationally stained images could not tell them apart from traditionally stained slides.
MIT a cappella group sings through quarantine together
Syncopasian, MIT's premier East Asian a cappella group, produced a Zoom-themed video to keep music alive during quarantine.
Microsoft President Brad Smith talks data, Covid-19, and a potential “digital 9/11”
Smith spoke with CSAIL Director Daniela Rus as part of a special series co-presented by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Making tissue stretchable, compressible, and nearly indestructible
Chemical process called ELAST allows labeling probes to infuse more quickly, and makes samples tough enough for repeated handling.
Machine-learning tool could help develop tougher materials
Engineers develop a rapid screening system to test fracture resistance in billions of potential materials.
A scientist turns to entrepreneurship
After delivering novel computational methods for nuclear problems, nuclear science and engineering PhD candidate Pablo Ducru plunges into startup life.
MIT student applies her doctoral research to the Covid-19 emergency
Junli Hao's efforts aid procurement of face masks and respirators for first responders.