Four professors named 2015 MacVicar Fellows
Bahr, Drennan, Gibson, and Sive receive the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
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Magnetic brain stimulation
New technique could lead to long-lasting localized stimulation of brain tissue without external connections.
Chisholm sees big impacts from small sources
Discoverer of world’s most abundant and prolific photosynthetic organism delivers annual Killian Lecture.
Swine flu outbreak in India raises concern
MIT study finds evidence that a new strain of H1N1 may carry dangerous mutations.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
The secret of wrinkling, folding, and creasing
New research provides a general formula for understanding how layered materials form different surface patterns.
Domitilla Del Vecchio bridges math, engineering, and biology
Mechanical engineering professor carries out pioneering work in the creation of biological circuits.
MIT graduate students receive prestigious Lawrence award
Award acknowledges important contributions to inertial confinement research.
Five MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty specializing in mathematics, chemistry, mechanical engineering, and economics among 126 selected.
New nanodevice defeats drug resistance
Tiny particles embedded in gel can turn off drug-resistance genes, then release cancer drugs.
Faculty highlight: Vladimir Bulovic
MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.
Researchers generate a reference map of the human epigenome
Better understanding of epigenetic modifications could elucidate their role in human traits, diseases.