Two winning proposals for sustainable construction
Students receive High Commendation from the Holcim Foundation.
Nergis Mavalvala wins MacArthur ‘genius’ grant
Physics professor and two alumni are awarded $500,000 in no-strings-attached funding.
International prize for solar cooker
Low-cost portable device developed at MIT wins major prize in Netherlands competition.
Frank talk on U.S. energy innovation
MIT alumnus Steven E. Koonin, DoE under secretary for science, says economics, not technology, is the driver.
Help design MIT’s 2010 holiday e-greeting
Community members are invited to submit ideas for MIT's 2010 holiday e-greeting. Cash prize awarded to winner, runner-up.
MIT alumnus gives $24M to expand the Institute’s undergraduate student body
Fariborz Maseeh cites pressing need for MIT graduates.
Gates named MLK Visiting Professor in Physics
Supersymmetry pioneer will conduct research this year at MIT’s Center for Theoretical Physics.
Scientist-astronaut and former MIT professor William B. Lenoir dies at 71
An MIT junior faculty member in the 1960s, he later flew on the space shuttle and became a NASA associate administrator.
Anish Kapoor sculpture unveiled in Stata Center
Bold addition to Institute’s public-art collection made possible by MIT’s Percent-For-Art Program and donations.
Stringing together a picture of superconductors
MIT physicists use an offshoot of string theory to describe the strange behavior of superconducting materials.
Lunch with a Laureate: Robert Horvitz
Presented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival
Annual Technology Day Report 2010
From Technology Day 2010 Against the Grain: The Power of Thinking Differently
Jodie Wu ’09 and Jamie Yang PhD ’08 selected as 2010 Echoing Green Fellows
Chosen from a pool of 1,000 applicants from 73 countries
Caulfield named White House Fellow
Former GSC president and outgoing MIT Corporation member selected for elite Washington-based program.