Fujimoto receives the OSA Frederic Ives Medal
MIT professor honored for pioneering the field of optical coherence tomography and leading medical and commercial applications.
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Teaching programming to preschoolers
System that lets children program a robot using stickers embodies new theories about programming languages.
“There’s no more important issue than energy”
Speakers at 10th annual MIT Energy Conference see progress, but great need for more research.
Faculty highlight: Vladimir Bulovic
MIT's associate dean for innovation is inventing at the nanoscale.
New faculty in engineering
Twelve new faces join six academic departments in the School of Engineering.
Forbes hails MIT standouts in science, education, energy, technology, and health care
11 MIT affiliates and more than 30 alumni are identified as movers, makers, and game changers in their respective fields.
Small volcanoes make a dent in global warming
Study shows that the effects of smaller eruptions have been underestimated in climate models.
High school teams receive Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects
Fifteen student teams tackle everyday challenges through invention and creativity.
Social media tools that can save you time
MIT social media strategist Stephanie Hatch Leishman highlights applications and resources that can streamline your workflow: Feedly, Flickr, Hootsuite, and IFTTT.
Julie Lucas named vice president for resource development
New lead fundraiser for MIT has held senior advancement roles at USC, NYU, and Fordham.
The connector
Munther Dahleh’s expertise in mathematical modeling gives him profound insight into people, and MIT.
MIT launches online lab to study early childhood learning
Families contribute to research via browser and webcam
IDEAS winners aim to improve the world’s “quality of life”
Contest awards thousands of dollars to 13 teams tackling environmental and health challenges in developing countries.
Martin Schmidt named provost; Cynthia Barnhart named chancellor
Two faculty members named to MIT’s most senior academic posts first arrived at the Institute as students in the early 1980s.
When the job search becomes a blame game
MIT professor’s book explores how white-collar job hunters in the U.S. blame themselves unnecessarily — and suffer as a result — when they cannot find work.