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Carl Thompson is the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of the Materials Research Laboratory at MIT.

Broadening the range of material rewards

Headed by Carl Thompson, the newly formed Materials Research Laboratory opens up opportunities for industrial partnerships.

June 18, 2018

Jamshied Sharifi, winner of the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for “The Band's Visit”

In profile: Jamshied Sharifi ’83, Tony Award winner

Composer, musician, and former MIT visiting artist received a 2018 Tony Award for best orchestrations on “The Band's Visit.”

June 15, 2018

Graduate student Dextina Booker (center) discusses her group's ideas at a mock trade show held as part of the Desiging the First Year at MIT class.

Tackling the ultimate problem set: The first year at MIT

How would you change the first-year experience? Students have proposed inventive ways to improve the first year. And MIT is listening.

June 5, 2018

Principal investigators on the MIT and Masdar Institute Cooperate Program research project MUSES (Multi-Use Space Energy Systems): (back row, left to right) Vinod Khadkikar, James Kirtley, Hatem Zeineldin, and (front row, left to right) Steven Leeb, Mohamed Elmoursi, Mohamed Al Hosani. David Perreault is also a PI on the project.

MIT-Abu Dhabi collaboration fosters thriving academic network

May 9, 2018

A team of MIT researchers tested MapLite on a Toyota Prius outfitted with a range of LIDAR and IMU sensors.

Self-driving cars for country roads

Today’s autonomous vehicles require hand-labeled 3-D maps, but CSAIL’s MapLite system enables navigation with just GPS and sensors.

May 7, 2018

“When I first started Python, I basically felt like I was learning some unfathomable witchcraft. Many of the concepts still feel hard to grasp for me, and that sort of feeling is what made me love it,” says second-year student James Quigley. He is featured with Ana Bell, a lecturer in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at MIT.

Computation counts

Students are flocking to 6.00 (Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python), where they learn not just coding but computational thinking.

May 4, 2018

A comparison of blood vessels imaged with short-wave fluorescence imaging (right) and near-infrared fluorescence imaging (left). Both images rely on a fluorescent dye called ICG, but the vessels can be seen more clearly with short-wave fluorescence imaging.

Fluorescent dye could enable sharper biological imaging

Technique could allow doctors and researchers to generate clearer images of blood vessels and other tissues.

April 6, 2018

Putting a price on carbon, in the form of a fee or tax on the producers of fossil fuels, can be an effective way to curb emissions of greenhouse gases.

Carbon taxes could make significant dent in climate change, study finds

Several different carbon-pricing approaches would help reduce emissions, and some would be fair as well, researchers report.

April 6, 2018

Morris Halle, Institute Professor Emeritus of Linguistics

Institute Professor Emeritus Morris Halle, innovative and influential linguist, dies at 94

Scholar conducted groundbreaking research, helped found MIT’s linguistics program, and inspired generations of students.

April 3, 2018

The keynote panel at the 10th annual meeting of the Kendall Square Association (KSA) comprised three members of The Boston Globe’s current Spotlight team (from left): reporter Andrew Ryan, columnist Adrian Walker, and editor Patricia Wen. Panel moderator was Malick W. Ghachem (far right), a professor of history at MIT. The team’s latest seven-part project — titled, “Boston. Racism. Image. ...

KSA meeting puts “Spotlight” on region’s diversity issues

At annual event, Boston Globe’s Spotlight team discusses its latest investigation into racism in Boston.

March 30, 2018

An illustration depicting a kagome metal — an electrically conducting crystal, made from layers of iron and tin atoms, with each atomic layer arranged in the repeating pattern of a kagome lattice.

Physicists discover new quantum electronic material

With an atomic structure resembling a Japanese basketweaving pattern, “kagome metal” exhibits exotic, quantum behavior.

March 19, 2018

“It’s really essential for the nuclear sector, an industry that is struggling in the current economic climate, to incorporate lessons from other industries that successfully create, design, build, and distribute technology,” says Ka-Yen Yau.

From coolants to a carbon-constrained world

An early calling for clean energy propels undergraduate Ka-Yen Yau’s research on the next generation of nuclear technology.

March 15, 2018

Visualization of the proposed SPARC tokamak experiment. Using high-field magnets built with newly available high-temperature superconductors, this experiment would be the first controlled fusion plasma to produce net energy output.

MIT and newly formed company launch novel approach to fusion power

Goal is for research to produce a working pilot plant within 15 years.

March 9, 2018

Rheumatoid arthritis, which afflicts more than 1 million Americans, is an autoimmune disorder that produces swollen and painful joints, primarily affecting the wrists and hands.

New study solves an arthritis drug mystery

MIT biological engineers discover why a promising drug failed in clinical trials.

March 6, 2018

The 2018 MacVicar Faculty fellows are (clockwise from top left): Shankar Raman, David Autor, Merritt Roe Smith, and Christopher Capozzola.

Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows

Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.

March 5, 2018

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