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"A lot of good things have happened" since the 2000 election, said Charles Stewart III, the Kenan Sahin Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Those good things including better voting machines, modernized registration systems, and an increase in the professionalization of election administration.

Mens et Manus America examines election integrity

Political scientists Charles Stewart III and Eitan D. Hersh offer insights on data, technology, and election security in an era of rising concern.

October 30, 2017

Attendees listening to a presenter at one of the poster session tables at Collaborating for MIT's Future.

Energy and ideas at Collaborating for MIT’s Future

Fourth annual poster session connects colleagues as they learn about the good work being done by and for the MIT community — and the world.

October 24, 2017

“We got a lot of traffic here, all Boston locals,” said PhD candidate You Wu about the MIT — For a Better World exhibit at The HUB, part of the 2017 HUBweek celebration. Wu is holding a Robot Daisy, a soft, rubbery robot designed to move through municipal water pipes and detect leaks.

At The HUB, a celebration of art, technology, and innovation

Student volunteers at HUBweek exhibits share MIT’s creative spirit with the public.

October 18, 2017

A "mapathon" hosted at MIT helped to develop a crowdsourced map of Puerto Rico's infrastructure damaged by two recent hurricanes. The map seeks to help aid agencies assess where to concentrate relief efforts on the ground.

Mapathon seeks to direct humanitarian aid for Puerto Rico

Boston-area volunteers gather at MIT to help identify post-hurricane conditions in the territory

October 16, 2017

School of Engineering third quarter awards

Faculty and staff researchers recognized with a diverse array of awards, prizes, grants, and other honors.

October 13, 2017

The winning team, named A Salt Solution, won $10,000 for a prototype of a simple, low-cost hydrogel that can be incorporated into water desalination plants or placed directly into bodies of water to collect uranium. The team members are: (left to right) Jasmine Harris, Cynthia Lo, and William “Robin” Lindemann.

Hydrogel that extracts uranium from water wins MADMEC

Teams developing materials solutions for ships and buildings split second and third prizes.

October 13, 2017

MIT Professor Regina Barzilay, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, was cited by the MacArthur Foundation for making “significant contributions to a wide range of problems in computational linguistics, including both interpretation and generation of human language.”

Regina Barzilay wins MacArthur “genius grant”

MIT computer scientist who studies natural language processing and machine learning wins $625,000 prize.

October 11, 2017

MIT doctoral student Michael B. Cohen ’14, SM ’16 (1992-2017)

Celebrating the life of doctoral student and alumnus Michael B. Cohen

Faculty, friends, and family pay tribute to an intellectually generous scholar.

October 5, 2017

Left to right: Vipin Narang, associate professor of political science and a member of the Security Studies Program; Jim Walsh, senior research associate at the Security Studies Program; and Taylor Fravel, associate professor of political science, a member of the Security Studies Program, and acting director of the MIT Center for International Studies.

Nuclear and present danger

MIT security experts discuss how to lower tensions between the U.S. and North Korea.

October 4, 2017

An aerial view of the Virgo site shows the Mode-Cleaner building, the Central building, the 3km-long west arm and the beginning of the north arm. The other buildings include offices, workshops, computer rooms and the control room of the interferometer.

Gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger observed by LIGO and Virgo

Finding represents first joint detection of gravitational waves with both detectors.

September 27, 2017

Johan Rockstrom speaks at the Environmental Solutions Initiative's first People and the Planet lecture of 2017.

Johan Rockström: Presenting a framework for preserving Earth’s resilience

Stockholm Resilience Center executive director and Stockholm University professor speaks at the Environmental Solutions Initiative’s People and the Planet lecture series.

September 26, 2017

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node finds permanent home

The 5,000-square-foot facility includes prototyping equipment, a makerspace, and multipurpose areas.

September 25, 2017

Volunteers and rescuers work at a collapsed building at Colonia Roma, Mexico City.

Targeted, crowdsourced aid for Mexican earthquake victims

MIT team’s online platform links those who need aid with those who can help. (Este artículo está disponible en español.)

September 24, 2017

Kerry Emanuel, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Atmospheric Science and co-director of the Lorenz Center at MIT

Kerry Emanuel: This year’s hurricanes are a taste of the future

Climate scientist describes physics behind expected increase in storm strength due to climate change.

September 21, 2017

Every summer, the MIT delta v accelerator provides a cohort of student startups with the wherewithal to launch, including office and lab space, mentorship, and funding. At the 2017 Demo Day event on Sept. 9, the entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to the MIT community, investors, and business leaders.

Young startups go full throttle

At MIT delta v Demo Day, student entrepreneurs present novel ideas that have achieved commercial milestones.

September 12, 2017

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