Taking the heat out of industrial chemical separations
The gas-filtering membranes developed by MIT spinout Osmoses offer an alternative to energy-hungry thermal separation for chemicals and fuels.
MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025
Professors Ahmad Bahai and Kripa Varanasi, plus seven additional MIT alumni, are honored for highly impactful inventions.
MIT HEALS leadership charts a bold path for convergence in health and life sciences
Angela Koehler, Iain Cheeseman, and Katharina Ribbeck are shaping the collaborative as a platform for transformative research, translation, and talent development across MIT.
From nanoscale to global scale: Advancing MIT’s special initiatives in manufacturing, health, and climate
MIT.nano cleanroom complex named after Robert Noyce PhD ’53 at the 2025 Nano Summit.
Technology originating at MIT leads to approved bladder cancer treatment
A system conceived in Professor Michael Cima’s lab was approved by the Food and Drug Administration after positive results in patients.
Kripa Varanasi named faculty director of the Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation
The interfacial engineering expert and prolific entrepreneur will help faculty and students take breakthroughs from lab to market.
MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Engineering for 2025
Eight researchers, along with 13 additional alumni, are honored for significant contributions to engineering research, practice, and education.
MIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each day
The company builds water recycling, treatment, and purification solutions for some of the world’s largest brands.
Translating MIT research into real-world results
MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship system helps launch water, food, and ag startups with social and economic benefits.
Pioneering the future of materials extraction
MIT spinout SiTration looks to disrupt industries with a revolutionary process for recovering and extracting critical materials.
Engineers find a new way to convert carbon dioxide into useful products
A catalyst tethered by DNA boosts the efficiency of the electrochemical conversion of CO2 to CO, a building block for many chemical compounds.
A passion for innovation and education
Leon Sandler reflects on 18 years of helping MIT faculty make their research have real-world impact.
Six MIT students selected as spring 2024 MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.
Three MIT students selected as inaugural MIT-Pillar AI Collective Fellows
The graduate students will aim to commercialize innovations in AI, machine learning, and data science.
Immune action at a distance
MIT and MGH researchers design a local, gel-based drug-delivery platform that may provoke a system-wide immune response to metastatic tumors.