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Squire Booker PhD ’94, the Evan Pugh Professor of chemistry and of biochemistry and molecular biology and Eberly Family Distinguished Chair in Science at Penn State University, gave the keynote address at MIT’s Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral ceremony on June 6, 2019.

At doctoral ceremony, a strong call to provide opportunity for all

Biochemist Squire Booker PhD ’94 says MIT’s new doctoral graduates will “grow as future leaders” by giving back.

June 6, 2019

MIT biologists have identified a drug that blocks a DNA repair pathway used by cancer cells, making them more susceptible to chemotherapy drugs that damage DNA.

Drug makes tumors more susceptible to chemo

Compound that knocks out a DNA repair pathway enhances cisplatin treatment and helps prevent drug-resistance.

June 6, 2019

The MIT School of Engineering newly tenured faculty are: (first row, left to right) Amos Winter, Kerri Cahoy, Antoine Allanore, R. Scott Kemp, Juejun Hu, Emilio Baglietto, Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Aleksander Mądry, and Julie Shah. (second row, left to right) William Tisdale, Paul Blainey, Themistoklis Sapsis, Frances Ross, Sertac Karaman, Hadley Sikes, Saurabh Amin, and Daniel Sanchez.

The tenured engineers of 2019

Seventeen appointments have been made in eight departments within the School of Engineering.

June 4, 2019

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have developed an interactive tool that, for the first time, lets users see and control how increasingly popular automated machine-learning (AutoML) systems work.

Cracking open the black box of automated machine learning

Interactive tool lets users see and control how automated model searches work.

May 31, 2019

April FAIL! Conference speakers: (left to right) Kirsty Bennett, manager of MITell; Susan Silbey, MIT professor of humanities, sociology, and anthropology; Regina Bateson, MIT assistant professor of political science; Amanda Bosh, MIT astronomer and planetary scientist; Amy Edmonson, Harvard Business School professor of leadership and management; and Chengzhao Zhang, MIT graduate student and co-fo...

MIT students organize FAIL! ― an initiative to destigmatize failure and build resilience

FAIL! brings together prominent scholars to share the challenges and missteps that led them to where they are today.

May 28, 2019

“I try to understand how policy makers and negotiators think, explore current nuclear challenges, and then try to evolve technical frameworks to meet the world as it is,” says Mareena Robinson Snowden PhD '17.

Plotting new paths to a nuclear “yes”

Nuclear science and engineering alumna Mareena Robinson Snowden PhD '17 devises new solutions for problems of arms control and proliferation.

May 28, 2019

Selecta Biosciences hopes its technology can be used to mitigate the unwanted immune responses of hundreds of drugs.

Biotech startup uses nanoparticles to induce immune tolerance

Selecta Bioscience’s ImmTOR platform could improve gene therapies and prevent some drug side effects.

May 23, 2019

Noopur (back row, second from left) with NIEPMD staff and clients

Humanizing speech in the deaf-blind community

Sophomore Noopur Ranganathan's work empowers those with visual and auditory impairments to take communication into their own hands.

May 23, 2019

Agata Wiśniowska credits the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab for helping her land a consulting job. "The NRL gave me my first real work experience, showing me that my decisions can have real weight, and how to take responsibility."

For one graduate student, MIT's nuclear reactor is like a "second home"

On the cusp of graduation, health sciences and technology doctoral candidate Agata Wiśniowska '11 sustains her decade-plus connection to the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab.

May 23, 2019

Gretchen Daily presents the 17th annual Kendall Lecture.

Finding value in nature and ensuring green growth

For the 17th annual Kendall Lecture, Gretchen Daily analyzes species and ecosystem services and leverages natural capital to build a green financial system.

May 23, 2019