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Resolution by the MIT Corporation on the death of Alex d'Arbeloff

October 16, 2008

Computer model reveals cells' inner workings

New approach could help tailor chemotherapy treatments

October 16, 2008

MIT Deshpande Center announces fall 2008 research grants

Nine research teams receive $700,000 to turn new ideas into commercial innovations

October 8, 2008

Left image highlights two platinum-cobalt catalyst nanoparticles (inside the dashed boxes) with a 'sandwich' structure of platinum and cobalt atoms near the surface. At right is a cross-sectional model corresponding to the lower particle, showing platinum atoms enriched in the outermost layer, cobalt enriched in the second, and additional layers containing a mixture of the two. (Image at left take...

Team takes first atomic-scale compositional images of fuel-cell nanoparticles

Work could lead to better catalysts for eco-friendly energy storage devices

October 2, 2008

Celebrate excellence at MIT

Nominations for the Institute's annual Excellence Awards due later this month

October 1, 2008

Two MIT faculty win MacArthur 'genius' grants

Winners each get $500,000 in unrestricted funds

September 23, 2008

CMSE wins six-year, $19.2m NSF grant

September 23, 2008

Team Heliotrope demonstrates its sun-tracking technology that won first prize in an MIT competition aimed at developing innovative energy technologies. At left is team member George Whitfield, a graduate student in materials science. His teammate and fellow grad student Vyom Sharma is at right. The third member, Forrest Liau, is not shown. <a onclick="MM_openBrWindow('madmec-4-enlarged.html','','w...

Sun-tracking device wins student prize

Window coatings, wind generators and power unit also win

September 19, 2008

Rudie Berkhout's "Delta II" is among the works of art that make up the MIT Museum's second annual winter holography exhibition.

MITEI awards second round of seed grants

September 18, 2008

MIT quantum insights could lead to better detectors

Improved efficiency could enable research, military and medical uses

September 11, 2008

D'Arbeloff remembrance set for Oct. 17

September 10, 2008

Portable Light textiles charge in the sun in a Huichol village in the Tateikie region of the Sierra Madre, Mexico. A Huichol man in the Sierra Madre uses a Portable Light textile to charge his cell phone and place a call to check market prices.

Kennedy's Portable Light wins Tech Award

September 9, 2008

Kinney named director of arts initiatives

September 9, 2008

The colorful patterns formed by the response of superconducting 'artificial atoms' to a new probe called amplitude spectroscopy serve as an identifying fingerprint for a given atom.

MIT probe could aid quantum computing

Spectroscopy, with amplitude

September 3, 2008

MIT zeroes in on Alzheimer's structures

Work could lead to new drugs for the common disease

August 21, 2008

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