MIT Water Innovation Prize awards three student startups with $20,000 in innovation grants
MIT’s first-ever competition for water startups sets the groundwork for students to initiate enterprises that tackle global water challenges.
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation launches manufacturing innovation consortium
Forum also honors Ravi Kumar, executive vice president of Infosys, with expanded role on its Technology Advisory Board.
Engineering undergraduates characterize sulfur emissions from Hawaiian volcano
Kilauea volcanic smog study may lead to better understanding of effects on human health, infrastructure, and environment.
Better traffic signals can cut greenhouse gas emissions
Analysis shows that smarter programming of stoplights could improve efficiency of urban traffic.
GE’s William Ruh to keynote at MIT Forum’s April analytics conference
MIT Forum for Supply Chain Innovation conference will showcase research in data science and analytics and present industry case studies.
Student videos showcase impacts of civil and environmental engineering research at MIT
Students create and screen their creations in the second annual Course 1 Video Competition.
Chisholm sees big impacts from small sources
Discoverer of world’s most abundant and prolific photosynthetic organism delivers annual Killian Lecture.
The secret of wrinkling, folding, and creasing
New research provides a general formula for understanding how layered materials form different surface patterns.
Chasing the plume
Civil and environmental engineering "TREX" course allows students to examine firsthand the effects of volcanic emissions on air and soil quality.
New faculty in engineering
Twelve new faces join six academic departments in the School of Engineering.
Wrinkle predictions
New mathematical theory may explain patterns in fingerprints, raisins, and microlenses.
3 Questions: Dara Entekhabi on NASA’s soil-moisture mission
MIT professor is lead scientist on three-year mission to study how soil, water, and carbon interact.