2023 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Professors Gabrieli, Gubar, Martin, and Sass are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
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Pursuing a practical approach to research
Professor Koroush Shirvan, who recently won a prestigious award from the American Nuclear Society, pursues avenues to lower the costs of nuclear energy.
Three from MIT named 2023 Rhodes Scholars
Jack Cook, Matthew Kearney, and Jupneet Singh will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.
Video on the record
MIT’s inaugural Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice conference explores video’s role in the struggle over truth and civil liberties.
Between two universes
Mohammad Javad Khojasteh, a postdoc at MIT LIDS, uses both classical and quantum physics to improve state-of-the-art capabilities in communication, sensing, and computation.
MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2022-23
Undergraduate engineering and computer science programs are No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Assay determines the percentage of Omicron, other variants in Covid wastewater
Developed by the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, the assay can provide new details about the type of SARS-CoV-2 circulating in a community.
Bringing lessons from cybersecurity to the fight against disinformation
Mary Ellen Zurko pioneered user-centered security in the 1990s. Now she’s using those insights to help the nation thwart influence operations.
Passion projects prepare to launch
MITdesignX presents ventures from the accelerator's sixth cohort.
MIT welcomes eight MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2022-23
Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.
Hallucinating to better text translation
A machine-learning method imagines what a sentence visually looks like, to situate and ground its semantics in the real world, improving translation, like humans can.
Helping dairy farmers raise healthy cows
Labby has developed an optical milk scanner based on materials-sensing technology that dairy farmers can use to measure the health of their cows.
3 Questions: Daniel Anderson on the progress of mRNA vaccines
Following the successful development of vaccines against Covid-19, scientists hope to deploy mRNA-based therapies to combat many other diseases.
MIT Climate “Plug-In” highlights first year of progress on MIT’s climate plan
Members of three working groups outline latest efforts implementing the ambitious plan, launched last year.