Beaver Works hosts Assistive Technologies Hackathon
MIT students hack away at problems faced by local community members living with disabilities.
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MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.
Four professors named 2015 MacVicar Fellows
Bahr, Drennan, Gibson, and Sive receive the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.
DiVincenzo named vice president and general counsel
Institute’s deputy general counsel since 2007 will step up to serve as its chief legal officer.
The rise and fall of cognitive skills
Neuroscientists find that different parts of the brain work best at different ages.
High “return-on-learning”
“Business intelligence” software for schools links classroom technology and strategies to student achievement.
Fighting inefficiencies
Senior Sheldon Trotman designs computer programs to streamline human behavior.
Can an LED-filled “robot garden” make coding more accessible?
CSAIL’s 100-plus blooming, crawling, swimming bots teach basic programming concepts.
Researchers generate a reference map of the human epigenome
Better understanding of epigenetic modifications could elucidate their role in human traits, diseases.
Epigenomics of Alzheimer’s disease progression
Study of epigenomic modifications reveals immune basis of Alzheimer's disease.
Better how-to videos
System recruits learners to annotate videos, increasing their educational value.
Eight from MIT elected to National Academy of Engineering
New members include the Institute’s president and the director of Lincoln Laboratory.
New faculty in engineering
Twelve new faces join six academic departments in the School of Engineering.