In the World: A long haul to bring clean water to developing nations MIT’s Susan Murcott expands ceramic-filter production to three continents, bringing jobs and curbing disease. December 10, 2013 Read full story →
Procter & Gamble joins MIT Forum Technology Advisory Board P&G, one of world’s major consumer goods companies, will collaborate with the board on industry challenges and opportunities. November 14, 2013 Read full story →
Achieving an innovation nation MIT report emphasizes need to turn U.S. innovation strengths into growth. September 24, 2013 Read full story →
MITx introduces ‘XSeries’ course-sequence certificates on edX EdX also introduces new ID verification service. September 17, 2013 Read full story →
U.S. News ranks MIT seventh overall among U.S. universities Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2. September 10, 2013 Read full story →
In The World: Mapping the logistics of megacities New open-source online maps generated by MIT students provide details of urban supply chains. September 9, 2013 Read full story →
Solar-cell manufacturing costs: innovation could level the field Study shows that factors other than wages dominate trends in photovoltaic costs, raising the prospect of competitive manufacturing anywhere. September 5, 2013 Read full story →
Chairman of McEwen Mining to speak at MIT big data conference Rob McEwen will discuss how big data and the Internet led to a major gold strike, transforming the mining industry. August 27, 2013 Read full story →
MIT professor Erik Brynjolfsson to deliver keynote at big data conference The MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation and the Accenture and MIT Alliance in Business Analytics will host the conference at the Cambridge Marriott. August 15, 2013 Read full story →
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation releases risk report Research study conducted with PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests performance indicators dropped by 3 percent or more because of supply chain disruptions. August 8, 2013 Read full story →
Concrete Sustainability Hub names Jeremy Gregory as executive director July 1, 2013 Read full story →
Diversifying your online world In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’ June 18, 2013 Read full story →
Putting a price on adaptation Researchers use new method to calculate the impacts and adaptation costs of climate change June 12, 2013 Read full story →