Martin Schmidt named provost; Cynthia Barnhart named chancellor
Two faculty members named to MIT’s most senior academic posts first arrived at the Institute as students in the early 1980s.
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Growing a business, from the lab
MIT researcher Shuguang Zhang’s nanofiber-scaffold technology became the foundation for a biotech company.
Marrying tissue engineering with systems biology
Linda Griffith combines in vitro models with deep molecular analysis to accelerate drug discovery.
Media Lab’s Neri Oxman awarded Vilcek Prize
Architect and designer recognized for leading-edge design inspired by biology
New weapon fights drug-resistant tumors
Biologists identify a drug that can help wipe out reservoirs of cancer cells in bone marrow.
A new wrinkle in the control of waves
Flexible materials could provide ways to manipulate sound and light.
In the brain, timing is everything
Study reveals how the brain links memories of events that occur one after the other.
Steady hands of healing
Senior Dylan Soukup has fought cancer on two fronts — and led MIT EMS through deep loss.
Seeing things: A new transparent display system could provide heads-up data
New kind of see-through screen could be applied as a thin plastic coating on ordinary glass.
MITx course injects science into the global warming debate
12.340x focuses on teaching students academic rigor, not rhetoric.
Weighing particles at the attogram scale
New device from MIT can measure masses as small as one millionth of a trillionth of a gram, in solution.
Ahoy! First ocean vesicles spotted
Scientists discover extracellular vesicles produced by ocean microbes.
The ocean’s hidden waves show their power
Large-scale tests in the lab and the South China Sea reveal the origins of underwater waves that can tower hundreds of feet.
Boyle awarded Urey Medal
Edward Boyle of EAPS has been awarded the 2014 Urey Medal from the European Association of Geochemistry.
Ludwig Cancer Research gives $90 million to MIT
MIT is one of six institutions receiving a total of $540 million to provide reliable, long-term support for high-impact, innovative research.