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Facilities and operations administrator Matt Fulton found a new audience for his classic rock in a virtual concert for his Plasma Science and Fusion Center colleagues.

Rockin’ the Zoom room

The MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center finds camaraderie at a colleague’s virtual rock concert.

May 7, 2020

To ensure the best coverage of our solar system, MIT Assistant Professor Richard Linares envisions a constellation of "statites" that communicate and work together, only activating the statite in the optimum position to fly by or rendezvous with an interstellar object successfully. Other statites in the constellation can continue to wait for the next ISO to appear.

To catch an interstellar visitor, use a solar-powered space slingshot

MIT research proposal for rendezvous missions with interstellar objects selected for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program.

May 6, 2020

Letter to the community: Building a vision for MIT’s post-Covid future

May 4, 2020

Samantha Farrell is the assistant to the director of MIT.nano Vladimir Bulović, as well as a professional musician.

Podcast: Musical conversation with Samantha Farrell

May 4, 2020

MIT Building 68, home of the Department of Biology

Life and learning find a way during a pandemic

Despite Covid-19 physical distancing, the Department of Biology has come together while being apart.

April 30, 2020

Shriya Srinivasan of MIT is the $15,000 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize “Cure it!” Graduate Winner for her Cutaneous Mechanoneural Interface (CMI), a new type of surgical process for amputee patients that would allow a person to sense what their prosthesis feels.

Top collegiate inventors awarded 2020 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize

Students around the country recognized for innovative solutions to better single-use plastic, spacecraft and aircraft fuel gauges, surgery techniques, and more.

April 29, 2020

“I’m grateful that I have skills to contribute during this time when the hospital needs our help and patients need our help,” says Picower Institute researcher and Massachusetts General Hospital neurologist Diane Chan, who has been helping evaluate patients in respiratory illness clinics during the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 calls MIT physician-scientist to front-line respiratory care

Neurologist and researcher Diane Chan pitches in to help New England get through tough times.

April 22, 2020

MIT professor David Rand is a one-time punk rock guitarist whose academic research digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics. “To me, the essence of punk rock is saying, ‘Let me think about this for myself,’” Rand says. “Let me not be bound by social norms and conventions. … That’s what I try to do in my research. It’s the punk-rock approach to social science.”

Playing a new tune

Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics.

April 11, 2020

Mail Services Supervisor Darren O’Conner (left) and mail processor Sue Monteiro prepare a shipment of PPE to Mt. Auburn Hospital.

MIT offers assistance to City of Cambridge during Covid-19 crisis

The Institute is supporting Cambridge’s nonprofits, small businesses, and residents.

April 9, 2020

"Health care in [community health centers] has been turned upside down by the coronavirus pandemic," says Jeffrey Harris, physician and MIT economist. "Patients with chronic conditions are being dissuaded from coming in. Instead, telehealth service has become the new form of care."

3 Questions: Jeffrey Harris on the evolution of health care during the Covid-19 pandemic

Physician and MIT economist provides insights into health care during the pandemic, and how electronic or “telehealth” service has become the new form of care.

April 8, 2020