Improving the accuracy of cancer diagnoses
New spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.
Skoltech, MIT reflect on first year of collaboration
Anniversary event celebrates international ties.
Inspiring the next generation
Telling Your Story workshop connects scientist and engineers with teachers and in the process helps to demystify STEM and excite the next generation of learners.
A flow of creativity
MIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.
School within a school: MIT Concourse
A learning community in which MIT freshmen explore the sciences, humanities and social sciences in a small, close-knit community (with a kitchen!)
Martin Schmidt to oversee MIT’s industry-facing offices
Associate provost will oversee Technology Licensing Office and Office of Corporate Relations; retains duties around space planning.
All that is solid melts into air: Tomás Saraceno visits MIT
CAST visiting artist creates inflatable and airborne biospheres: speculative models for alternate ways of living.
Rice University engineering students experience engineering leadership — MIT style
Recapping the Gordon-MIT ELP's visit to the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL)
Controlling heat flow through a nanostructure
MIT researchers find that heat moving in materials called superlattices behaves like waves; finding could enable better thermoelectrics.
Inside the unconscious brain
New study reveals brain-wave patterns that mark loss of consciousness during anesthesia.
MIT Libraries’ research contributes to award-winning redistricting software, DistrictBuilder
Web-based resource gives citizens the opportunity to participate in the redistricting process.
MIT Auto-ID Labs launches ‘Cloud of Things’ initiative
Initiative brings together academia, industry to support the development, adoption, best practices and commercial success of big-data applications in mobile retail commerce.
Belfer gift creates consortium targeting neurodegenerative diseases
Collaboration unites Picower Institute at MIT with MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine.
The state of the U.S. election system
New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.