Chemist and MLK Jr. Scholar Robert Gilliard explores new frontiers in synthetic chemistry
MIT visiting scholar is motivated by foundational science at the edges of the periodic table.
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Ronald Kurtz, philanthropist and MIT Corporation life member emeritus, dies at 89
Alumnus, materials manufacturer, and passionate photography collector forged connections between art, science, and technology at the Institute.
Q&A: John Harbison on his new album, “Diotima”
The MIT composer endows his orchestral works with “unexpected” musical elements, while evoking aspiration, hope, and loss.
Q&A: Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Researchers argue the plant could provide multiple benefits for California, including desalinated water and clean hydrogen fuel.
Task Force 2021 and Beyond submits final “blueprints for building a better MIT”
Recommendations from the Institute-wide effort aim to benefit all segments of the community.
3 Questions: Administering elections in a hyper-partisan era
MIT professor of political science Charles Stewart III discusses the status of US election administration.
MIT to put unexpected gains to work immediately
Rise in endowment will enable greater support for undergraduate and graduate students, and a stronger MIT.
Making data visualizations more accessible
Researchers find blind and sighted readers have sharply different takes on what content is most useful to include in a chart caption.
MIT economist Joshua Angrist shares Nobel Prize
Cited for work building the foundations of “natural experiments” in economic research, Angrist is honored along with David Card and Guido Imbens.
3 Questions: Kalyan Veeramachaneni on hurdles preventing fully automated machine learning
Researchers hope more user-friendly machine-learning systems will enable nonexperts to analyze big data — but can such systems ever be completely autonomous?
The language of change
Preparing for a career advancing the science and policy of climate issues, junior Ryan Conti focuses on math, computer science, and the philosophy of language.
Sylvester James Gates Jr. ’73, PhD ’77 recounts storied career in research, teaching, and service
Theoretical physicist and diversity advocate delivers the fall 2021 Compton Lecture.
3 Questions: An anthropologist and a filmmaker on working-class lives in Chicago
A storytelling project by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel explores the social impacts of late 20th century deindustrialization.
MIT named No. 2 university by U.S. News for 2022
Undergraduate engineering and computer science programs are No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
3 Questions: Jean-Jacques Degroof SM ’93, PhD ’02 on how MIT became an entrepreneurial powerhouse
The Institute wasn’t always prolific in entrepreneurship, according to the venture investor.