Bose grants for 2018 fund research at the frontier of discovery
The prestigious awards are supporting five innovative projects that challenge established norms and have the potential to be world-changing.
Creating new spaces for art
Professor Judith Barry’s attention-grabbing installations create thought-provoking experiences for viewers.
Eugene Fitzgerald appointed CEO and director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology
Professor of materials science and engineering to lead MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore.
From vision to action
MIT’s LeaderShape program allows students to reflect, learn, and apply plans of action to make the world a better place.
New parameters in graduate mentoring
Professors Cullen Buie, Hadley Sikes, and Justin Steil are honored with the Committed to Caring Award.
3 Questions: Ken Urban on theater, science, and tech
The MIT Playwrights Lab founder discusses the varied connections between the sciences, technology, and the arts.
Biologist Adam Martin studies the mechanics of tissue folding
The dynamic process is critical to embryonic development and other cellular phenomena.
MIT’s REXIS and Bennu’s watery surface
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx sample-return spacecraft, carrying MIT instrument, arrived at asteroid in December; now begins the science to select a sampling location.
Richard "Dick" Lyon, acoustics expert and professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 89
Leading expert in acoustics, vibration, and machine dynamics served on the Department of Mechanical Engineering faculty for 32 years.
3Q: On the significance of Ultima Thule
New Horizons Mission Team members Alissa Earle and Richard Binzel discuss the revelations the icy world provides about the formation of our solar system.
Sallie “Penny” Chisholm awarded the 2019 Crafoord Prize
Institute Professor honored for discovering Prochlorococcus, the most abundant photosynthesizing organism on Earth.
Stephen Buchwald awarded 2019 Wolf Prize for chemistry
Honor shared with John Hartwig of the University of California at Berkeley for their development of a process to improve the synthesis of large organic molecules.
Fortifying the future of cryptography
Vinod Vaikuntanathan aims to improve encryption in a world with growing applications and evolving adversaries.