Reif, Grimson: MITx aims to enhance on-campus education
New online courses add value to MIT’s residential program, provost and chancellor tell students.
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Seeing the music in nature
From spider webs to tangled proteins, Markus Buehler finds the connections between mathematics, molecules and materials.
MIT's Communication Forum conducts a conversation for scholars — and citizens
Has explored media and change for more than 30 years
What lies ahead for science and science writing?
10th anniversary of MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing celebrates past, looks to future.
Big innovations for uncertain times
Seventh annual MIT Energy Conference features bold new technologies in the face of an uncertain economy.
Anant Agarwal named director of new unit to advance MITx
Instructor of inaugural 6.002x course will step down as CSAIL director.
Video: The Paradiso Synthesizer
Media Lab associate professor’s massive modular synthesizer now on exhibit in the MIT Museum.
Fiber laser points to woven 3-D displays
A fiber that can emit light along its length in any direction may herald flexible 3-D displays and medical tools that activate therapeutic compounds with bursts of light.
Freeing radicals from their negative connotations
Killian Award recipient JoAnne Stubbe says some free radicals can be good for you.
Transistors promise more powerful logic, more logical power
Research could affect U.S. manufacturing indirectly, by helping introduce products difficult to build elsewhere, and directly, by reducing production costs.
Preventing contamination in recycling
New study examines ways to prevent accumulation of impurities in recycling aluminum.
Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88
Developed many of the experimental techniques that are now standard practice in high-energy physics