Seeking our future in the deep past
Associate professor of architecture Brandon Clifford scrutinizes ancient stone structures, searching for ideas that can revitalize our building practices.
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Faces of MIT: Nick Jewell
The associate director of club sports, intramural sports, and sport camps shares the important role that athletics plays in finding community.
MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize
Along with James Robinson, the professors are honored for work on the relationship between economic growth and political institutions.
Laura Lewis and Jing Kong receive postdoctoral mentoring award
Advisors commended for providing exceptional individualized mentoring for postdocs.
MIT engineers create a chip-based tractor beam for biological particles
The tiny device uses a tightly focused beam of light to capture and manipulate cells.
MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program
The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
Fifteen Lincoln Laboratory technologies receive 2024 R&D 100 Awards
The innovations map the ocean floor and the brain, prevent heat stroke and cognitive injury, expand AI processing and quantum system capabilities, and introduce new fabrication approaches.
MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2024-25
Undergraduate engineering is No. 1; undergraduate business and computer science programs are No. 2.
Improving biology education here, there, and everywhere
At the cutting edge of pedagogy, Mary Ellen Wiltrout has shaped blended and online learning at MIT and beyond.
School of Engineering faculty and staff receive awards in spring 2024
Members of MIT’s School of Engineering were honored in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence in the spring of 2024.
Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano
New STUDIO.nano supports artistic research and encounters within MIT.nano’s facilities.
Remembering Mathieu Le Provost: AeroAstro researcher, adventurer, and friend
“He dived deep, even into cold water, but came out stronger and brought along others for a joyous adventure.”
For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)
Mechatronics combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design.
Students learn theater design through the power of play
MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs.