Collaboration

Anastassios Mavrokefalos, left, and Panagiotis Parpas are spending two years as postdoctoral Cyprus Fellows participating in research at MIT. Mavrokefalos is focusing on the use of solar and thermal energy for power generation systems, while Parpas is developing control algorithms for integrated multiscale models of complex energy systems. The fellows will subsequently return to Cyprus to continue...

MIT and Cyprus Institute expanding collaborative research, education

October 14, 2011

Computer science gives a boost to heart health

New technique searches for subtle indicators of risk hidden in a patient’s EKG.

October 13, 2011

The Technology Showcase at the conference highlighted MIT-India projects, including a rickshaw-powered lighting system developed by the MIT D-Lab.

Building innovation in India

MIT-India conference explores nation’s challenges, opportunities

September 27, 2011

MIT wins $7.5M DoE grant to develop a new generation of advanced reactors

September 22, 2011

In 'A Closed World' you play as a young person who has decided 'to throw it all away and run off to somewhere new.'

LGBT content and video games: MIT lab tackles the issue

Popular games still haven’t shown they can handle lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender representations. Research at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab wants to change that.

September 22, 2011

An architectural rendering of 610 Main Street.

Pfizer expands its research footprint in Cambridge

Announces lease of space in building being developed by MIT

September 1, 2011

Andrew Lo, the Harris & Harris Group Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management and director of MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Andrew Lo joins CSAIL

Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk.

August 30, 2011

Sanofi Biomedical Innovation Award Program announces request for proposals

Biomedical Innovation Funding Awards (BIFAs)- Application deadline: Sept. 6

August 12, 2011

Polishing its reputation for experimental lit, MIT to host the Electronic Literature Organization

August 10, 2011

Left to right: Philip Giudice, undersecretary for energy, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs; MIT President Susan Hockfield; Tom May, president and CEO of NSTAR; David Maher, Cambridge mayor; David Schmittlein, dean of the MIT Sloan School of Management; and Theresa Stone, executive vice president and treasurer of MIT.

A shared success story points to a hopeful energy future for Massachusetts

August 4, 2011

MIT President Susan Hockfield addresses the nation's governors on Friday during the National Governors Association annual meeting in Salt Lake City.

President Hockfield stresses innovation in speech to U.S. governors

‘Lasting economic growth emerges from the most advanced science, mathematics and technology,’ she says.

July 15, 2011

MIT part of $18.5 million effort to create mind-machine interface

New multi-institution center will work on robotic interaction with nervous system

July 14, 2011

Researchers at MIT and MGH have developed a polymer gel that mimics the vibrations of human vocal cords.

New material could offer hope to those with no voice

MIT and Harvard researchers are developing a synthetic material to revitalize damaged vocal cords.

July 14, 2011

MIT strengthens ties with France for energy research

France-MIT Forum on Energy unveils new joint laboratory, explores other potential collaborations.

June 30, 2011

Don’t show, don’t tell?

Cognitive scientists find that when teaching young children, there is a trade-off between direct instruction and independent exploration.