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With NIH grant, Kay Tye will take on obesity
The MIT professor has earned a 2013 NIH Director’s New Innovator Award to further her obesity research.
Dina Katabi and Sara Seager win MacArthur ‘genius grants’
Two MIT professors are among 24 recipients nationwide of this year’s unrestricted $625,000 prizes from the MacArthur Foundation.
Achieving an innovation nation
MIT report emphasizes need to turn U.S. innovation strengths into growth.
Terramechanics research aims to keep Mars rovers rolling
Simulations predict safest path for rovers to travel.
A look at the Class of 2017
From a bedroom chemist to a high-flying roboticist, talents abound among MIT’s incoming freshmen.
Big game hunter
MIT sociologist T.L. Taylor studies the subcultures of online gaming and the nascent world of online e-sports.
Bringing the law to the factory
While factory labor rules are notoriously hard to enforce, a new study shows how some inspectors are able to uphold workplace standards.
An entrepreneur aims to work in Africa
Graduate student Sarah Dimson is hatching plans for renewable energy and affordable housing in Tanzania.
Kendall Square initiative moves toward design phase
Urban-design firm to be selected; community meetings will be set for fall.
SHASS doctoral candidate to join Harvard Society of Fellows
Three-year fellowship recognizes exceptional young scholars
From gold, a new way to control blood clotting
Engineers design nanoparticles that can turn the blood-clotting cascade on or off.