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Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land

Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.

May 10, 2023

Collage of three images show left-side, front, and right-side views of a round metallic elephant superimposed onto living room image. The left-side view of the elephant is noticeably less shiny than the other two and has five pyramid prisms next to it.

Using reflections to see the world from new points of view

A new computer vision system turns any shiny object into a camera of sorts, enabling an observer to see around corners or beyond obstructions.

May 10, 2023

Illustration shows the same person in 4 positions as they walk across a curved city landscape.

Training machines to learn more like humans do

Researchers identify a property that helps computer vision models learn to represent the visual world in a more stable, predictable way.

May 9, 2023

Portrait of Jeff Wilke in a sport coat and open-collared shirt against a plain white background

After Amazon, an ambition to accelerate American manufacturing

Jeff Wilke SM '93, former CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer business, brings his LGO playbook to his new mission of revitalizing manufacturing in the U.S.

May 5, 2023

Side-by-side headshots of Richard Samuels and Evan Lieberman

A transformative era ends at the Center for International Studies

Richard J. Samuels steps down as director; Evan Lieberman is named his successor.

May 5, 2023

A pile of different pharmaceutical pills and capsules

Researchers develop novel AI-based estimator for manufacturing medicine

A collaborative research team from the MIT-Takeda Program combined physics and machine learning to characterize rough particle surfaces in pharmaceutical pills and powders.

May 3, 2023

Khurana portrait photo while outside in Kendall Square, with “Galaxy: Earth Sphere” sculpture in background.

Q&A: Introducing Axim Collaborative, a new MIT-Harvard online ed venture

CEO Stephanie Khurana describes the nonprofit, whose work is aimed at those without easy access to degree and credential programs.

May 3, 2023

Two by two grid featuring soft robotic animal designs. One resembles a manatee, one looks like a bear, another suggests a shark, and the last looks like a caterpillar

Open-source platform simulates wildlife for soft robotics designers

SoftZoo is a soft robot co-design platform that can test optimal shapes and sizes for robotic performance in different environments.

May 2, 2023

A moderator and seven MIT faculty members sit on stage. Professor Anne White, in the center, is speaking while the others look on.

MIT faculty tackle big ideas in a symposium kicking off Inauguration Day

Ahead of the Institute’s presidential inauguration, panelists describe advances in their research and how these discoveries are being deployed to benefit the public.

May 1, 2023

Sally Kornbluth, wearing grey and red academic regalia, speaks at a podium with a large MIT seal on the front.

“Join us in something important and new”

In her inaugural address, President Sally Kornbluth urges the MIT community to tackle pressing challenges, especially climate change, with renewed urgency.

May 1, 2023