Outside-the-box thinker
Senior Nathan Spielberg uses 3-D printing to build everything from nanoscale chips to houses.
Smoot lighting to set the mood on Harvard Bridge
An anonymous gift will pay for LED bulbs that will illuminate the bridge every 30 Smoots.
Hashim Sarkis named dean of the School of Architecture and Planning
Practicing architect, also a prominent scholar of architecture and urbanism, joins MIT from Harvard.
Soft design for a sustainable world
Sheila Kennedy pioneers soft design techniques and materials to meet pressing global challenges in housing and energy.
Three graduate students honored for hydrofoil research
Led by MIT researcher Stefano Brizzolara, the team earned second place in this year's Mandles Prize for Hydrofoil Excellence competition.
CSAIL team puts design in your hands
Fab By Example lets you quickly create thousands of custom designs for furniture, go-carts, and more.
A "maker" education
NuVu Studio takes high school students out of the classroom and into a design space to invent and create.
Rethinking architecture
Mark Goulthorpe teaches and practices new design and construction logics for the next generation of high-performance buildings.
MIT unveils plans for permanent memorial to Officer Sean Collier
Planned memorial “translates ‘Collier Strong’ into a physical form of strength and connectedness.”
Democratizing data visualization
Study examines use of ‘Exhibit’ tools in creating interactive data visualizations.
Engineering Design Studio brings ‘mind and hand’ to EECS
Students build their own electronics with help from Cypress Semiconductor
International development through dialogue, design, and dissemination
Amy Smith and students at MIT’s D-Lab create products for, and with, communities in the developing world.