Program offers fitness and fellowship to MIT community
Getfit encourages students, staff, faculty, postdocs, and other members of the MIT community to take on a healthy, fun start to the new year.
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Leg nerves activated by light offer new path to restoring mobility
New optogenetic technique could help restore limb movement, treat muscle tremor.
Team invents method to shrink objects to the nanoscale
It’s not quite the Ant-Man suit, but the system produces 3-D structures one thousandth the size of the originals.
Student group helps blind boater sail independently
Four seniors in the Principles and Practices of Assistive Technology program designed an audible device to help an MIT employee navigate on the water.
Blending medicine and mechanical engineering
Assistant Professor Ellen Roche develops revolutionary medical devices through research at the crossroads of medical science and engineering.
Five MIT students named 2019 Marshall Scholars
Radha Mastandrea, Katie O’Nell, Anna Sappington, Kyle Swanson, and Crystal Winston will begin graduate studies in the UK next fall.
Jack Turner Entrepreneurship Award established to support electronics research
Generous $1 million gift recognizes the collaborations of the Research Laboratory of Electronics and the Technology Licensing Office to develop MIT intellectual property.
Using electricity and water, a new kind of motor can slide microrobots into motion
Microhydraulic actuators, thinner than one-third the width of human hair, are proving to be the most powerful and efficient motors at the microscale.
Bridge to the future of engineering
The School of Engineering’s faculty leadership weigh in on what the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will mean for their students and faculty.
The many interfaces of computing
A roundup of MIT student research projects offers a glimpse of where computing is going next.
Highlighting new research opportunities in civil and environmental engineering
At its annual alumni reception, CEE faculty shared innovative research projects ranging from machine learning to regional impacts of climate change.
Giving early-career women in mechanical engineering the tools to succeed in academia
The Department of Mechanical Engineering hosts its first-ever Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop.
Fleets of drones could aid searches for lost hikers
System allows drones to cooperatively explore terrain under thick forest canopies where GPS signals are unreliable.
Harnessing the power of sustainable energy
With a love for the environment that took root on his family’s farm, senior Jesse Hinricher aims to put less expensive components into more efficient batteries.
Machines that learn language more like kids do
Computer model could improve human-machine interaction, provide insight into how children learn language.