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Daron Acemoglu named Institute Professor

Versatile economist awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor.

July 10, 2019

The 2019 MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows: (top row, l-r) AiLun Ku, Lehua Kamalu, Elizabeth Pettit, Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner; (middle row, l-r) Kate McCall-Kiley, Ayana Johnson, Jaylen Brown; (bottom row, l-r) Michael Tubbs, Rodney Mullen, Jan Fuller, Nonabah Lane

MIT Media Lab Director's Fellows announced for 2019

NBA star, Polynesian voyager, mayor of Stockton, California, are among the new cohort working to build bridges between MIT and the world.

July 1, 2019

Artist’s impression depicts the conversion of the structure of a protein molecule into a musical passage, as is done in the MIT researchers’ system.

Translating proteins into music, and back

By turning molecular structures into sounds, researchers gain insight into protein structures and create new variations.

June 26, 2019

Letter to the MIT community: Immigration is a kind of oxygen

June 25, 2019

A data scientist dedicated to social change

MBAn student Mason Grimshaw seeks to bring business solutions to overlooked communities.

June 22, 2019

Stephanie Chou ’19 stands with her kinetic art sculpture, "Mess of Gold."

Engineering art

Stephanie Chou ’19 designs and builds an interactive mechanical art sculpture.

June 21, 2019

This year’s winners. (Top row, left to right:) Cherry Ibrahim, Jeremiah Graves, Chris Bourg, Barbara Williams, Georgiana McReynolds; Kelly Hopkins, Grace Mlady, Bourg, Beverly Turner. (Bottom row, left to right:) Sam Spencer, Bourg, Shannon Hunt; Rhonda Kauffman, Ben Abrahamse, Helen Bailey, Bourg, Jeremy Prevost, Li Cheung

MIT Libraries staff honored with 2019 Infinite Mile Awards

Staffers feted for caring, collaboration, and community.

June 20, 2019

Commuters wait for a Red Line subway train, part of Boston’s public transit system. A new study by MIT researchers shows that low-income people use mass transit significantly more often when they have access to fare reductions.

3 Questions: An experiment illuminates the value of public transportation

Urban studies research from MIT sheds light on the ways low-income riders use mass transit.

June 19, 2019

PhD candidates Sahil Shah (left) and Peter Godart, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, have each received fellowships from MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab for 2019-20. Their research explores possible solutions to global and local water supply challenges through new approaches to desalination.

PhD students awarded J-WAFS fellowships for water solutions

J-WAFS announces graduate fellowships for Sahil Shah and Peter Godart, both of the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

June 17, 2019

Samip Jain, a graduate student in the Integrated Design and Management program, works on a project in the lab. He has been learning with MIT through open education courses and programs since he was a young high school student.

A road paved with open learning

Through open education courses and programs, graduate student Samip Jain began learning with MIT long before he arrived on campus.

June 14, 2019

PhD student Clare Kim studies the history of mathematics and the ways that mathematicians interacted with artists, humanists, and philosophers throughout the 20th century.

A scholar and teacher re-examines moments in the history of STEM

“I love teaching,” says PhD student Clare Kim. “It’s not that I’m just imparting knowledge, but I want [my students] to develop a critical way of thinking.”

June 13, 2019

Left to right: David Fialkow; Nina Fialkow; Melissa Nobles, Kenan Sahin Dean of the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Hashim Sarkis, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning; and Caroline Jones, professor in the Department of Architecture and director of the Transmedia Storytelling Initiative

Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift

Program creates a new hub for pedagogy and research in time-based media.

June 12, 2019

Left to right: Professor Daniel Hastings, Aeronautics and Astronautics department head; Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, dean of the School of Engineering; Eric Evans, director of Lincoln Laboratory; and Robert Shin, head of the Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance and Tactical Systems Division at Lincoln Laboratory, cut the ribbon at the unveiling of the new Beaver Works space in MIT’s...

Ribbon cutting launches auxiliary Beaver Works space

The 4,000-square-foot addition will facilitate further collaboration between MIT and Lincoln Laboratory researchers.

June 11, 2019

First Place 2019 $15K Creative Arts Competition team Teach to Learn, a global music mentorship program, receives their prize from MIT competition organizer Sam Magee (left).

2019 Creative Arts Competition winners combine arts and entrepreneurship

Annual competition encourages art-based entrepreneurship on campus, offering mentorship, support, and cash awards to student teams who present business plans for arts-related initiatives.

June 10, 2019

Dwaipayan Banerjee says he will endeavor to answer the question: What is lost when a handful of U.S.-based corporations seek to determine hierarchies of technology work and control how its social benefits are globally distributed?

Dwaipayan Banerjee receives 2019 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Award will support research for "A Counter History of Computing in India."