Steven Barrett named head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics
An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett succeeds Daniel Hastings as department head.
An expert on the environmental impacts of aviation, Barrett succeeds Daniel Hastings as department head.
Twelfth grader Jessica Wan three-peats, as MIT hosts the 15th competition for female middle and high school math enthusiasts.
Martin Puryear’s monumental sculpture “Lookout” has turned heads with its novel brick design. Here’s how MIT helped him build it.
Faculty and researchers across MIT’s School of Engineering receive many awards in recognition of their scholarship, service, and overall excellence.
Placing solutions in the cloud but learning with boots on the ground, GEAR Lab researchers build low-cost, solar-powered irrigation tools to make precision agriculture more accessible.
James Fujimoto, Eric Swanson, and David Huang are recognized for their technique to rapidly detect diseases of the eye; Subra Suresh is honored for his commitment to research and collaboration across borders.
Desirée Plata is on a lifelong mission to make sustainability a bigger factor in design decisions.
In a new book, Richard “Dick” Larson draws on a lifelong commitment to STEM education at MIT to offer accessible advice on solving everyday problems and making smarter decisions.
Professor Haruko Wainwright describes a new effort to communicate information about managing and disposing of spent fuel from nuclear reactors.
The award honors research on public policy with a focus on economic and governmental reforms.
The MIT professor reflects on five decades of impactful work in aerospace engineering and education, at the Institute and beyond.
The awards support creative, innovative research with a broad impact.
Atmospheric chemist praised for his inclusive and supportive advising of postdocs.
Professor Mark Bear's research on brain plasticity spins off a promising candidate to treat amblyopia, or lazy eye.
The MIT spinout Silverthread helps companies transform complex codebases into modular systems that can be changed or updated without headaches.