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Rear view of yellow taxi in city traffic

How many taxis does a city need?

New dispatching approach could cut the number of cars on the road while meeting rider demand.

May 23, 2018

Seven MIT graduate students are receiving 2018 National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships. Top row, left to right: Eeshan Chetan Bhatt, Frederick Daso, Ashley Kaiser, and Bharath Kannan. Bottom row, left to right: Peter Yucheng Lu, Molly Parsons, and Sarah Schwartz.

Seven from MIT named National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellows

Fellowships last for up to three years, covering full tuition and mandatory fees.

May 2, 2018

MIT’s four new NAS members are (from left): Feng Zhang, Mehran Kardar, Amy Finkelstein, and Xiao-Gang Wen.

National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors for 2018

Finkelstein, Kardar, Wen, and Zhang honored for research achievements.

May 1, 2018

“We’re really excited about bringing millennial revenue into rural America, and that is a very sustainable action,” says Sam McElhinney MBA '17, founder of Mayflower Venues.

Plan a wedding, save a farm

Sam McElhinney MBA '17 found a way to help New England small farms, family estates, and orchards by creating a system that enables them to host events easily.

April 18, 2018

“For buildings, placing too much emphasis on minimizing initial costs and not paying enough attention to the use phase can lead to higher costs, both environmentally and economically,” says Jeremy Gregory, executive director of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub.

With buildings and infrastructure, it pays to take a life-cycle perspective

Concrete Sustainability Hub research shows life-cycle thinking has long-term environmental and economic payoffs.

March 30, 2018

A team of researchers led by an MIT economist has found that medical expenses account for roughly 4 percent of bankruptcy filings among nonelderly adults in the U.S.

How often do medical problems lead to bankruptcy?

Poor health is a less common cause of bankruptcy than commonly thought, but it brings other economic woes, study finds.

March 21, 2018

A new study co-authored by a professor at MIT shows the long-term financial hurt of a medical event serious enough to cause hospitalization is significant even for the insured.

Ouch: Study reveals financial pain after hospitalization

Serious medical problems reduce earnings, hurt employment, and increase debt.

February 20, 2018

SuperUROP scholars, including EECS senior Emily Damato, discussed their research projects during an intensive Proposal Pitch session near the end of fall term.

Coding, thinking, sharing, building

More than 130 MIT juniors and seniors dig deeply into research in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Program (SuperUROP).

January 26, 2018

Originally from the small town of Cluny, in the Burgundy region of France, Philippe Rigollet made the move to MIT in 2014.

From undisciplined to interdisciplinary

Math professor Philippe Rigollet, once a “not very disciplined” student, moves between computer science and statistics.

January 21, 2018

Project leader Gigi Hirsch, executive director of the MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation and NEWDIGS Initiative, announced LEAPS at the Next Wave Forum on Dec. 12. Also pictured, left to right: Krystyn, J. Van Vliet, associate provost at MIT; Kourtney Davis, global head of real world data and analytics at GlaxoSmithKline; Felipe Dolz, vice president of global regulatory science and policy at San...

Pioneering a health care innovation ecosystem to better serve patients

NEWDIGS Initiative at MIT leads multi-stakeholder collaboration to design and pilot a sustainable, patient-centered innovation ecosystem for a target disease.

December 15, 2017