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Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.

Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT

Initiative is building collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.

July 6, 2018

“Innovation is born of openness to futures that are not easily imaginable," says Caley Horan, assistant professor of history. "History reminds us that many ideas, institutions, and organizational structures that now seem natural and inevitable did not always exist. In doing so, it throws open the door to boundless possibility.”

3 Questions: Historian Caley Horan on the rise of private insurance in the U.S.

Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection.

July 3, 2018

Siqi Zheng is an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning whose work examines the dynamic connections between what she calls urban “vibrancy” — economic and job growth, for instance — and urban “amenities,” such as transit, clean air, schools, housing, and restaurants.

The city is her lab

Siqi Zheng studies the economics of China’s urban explosion.

July 3, 2018

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning, is the newly appointed director of the MIT Center for Real Estate.

Dennis Frenchman named head of the MIT Center for Real Estate

Architect and urban designer brings to the role decades of global expertise on the transformation of cities

July 2, 2018

MindHandHeart Innovation Fund winners, Spring 2018

MindHandHeart announces 12 new Innovation Fund winners

The seventh round of MindHandHeart Innovation Fund projects have been selected to bring creative wellness and mental health programming to campus.

June 29, 2018

Left to right: Laurie Boyer, Matt Shoulders, and Feng Zhang.

Advancing knowledge in medical and genetic sciences

Three MIT faculty members selected for funding from the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation.

June 26, 2018

Evelyn Wang

Evelyn Wang named head of Department of Mechanical Engineering

Expert in high-efficiency energy and water systems will succeed Gang Chen as MechE department head.

June 22, 2018

Bruno Verdini discusses strategies for natural resources negotiation with MIT Energy Initiative Communications Director Emily Dahl at a MITEI seminar.

3Q: Winning together in negotiation

Bruno Verdini, executive director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program, discusses his award-winning research on negotiating for mutual gains.

June 21, 2018

Bruno Verdini explored the keys to successful high-stakes negotiations by interviewing dozens of people who worked together to settle long-running disputes between the United States and Mexico over shared natural resources in the Colorado River and the Gulf of Mexico.

Natural resource negotiations for mutual gains

Through research on U.S. - Mexico hydrocarbon drilling rights negotiation, Bruno Verdini provides insights on how to resolve conflicts through proactive collaboration.

June 21, 2018

Daniel Hastings

Daniel Hastings named head of Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics

A member of the MIT faculty since 1985, Hastings will succeed Jaime Peraire as AeroAstro department head.

June 20, 2018

Professor Oral Buyukozturk (right) accepts the George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring from ASCE EMI President George Deodatis.

Oral Buyukozturk receives George W. Housner Medal for Structural Control and Monitoring

Prestigious award recognizes contributions to sustainable infrastructure.

June 19, 2018

“Teaching is complementary with research,” says economics professor Alberto Abadie. “When you need to explain material that you believe you understand very well, that is when the real test is."

Method man

Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.

June 18, 2018

Institute Professor Robert Langer

Robert Langer named 2018 US Science Envoy

Institute Professor chosen to help forge connections and identify opportunities for sustained international cooperation.

June 18, 2018

Carl Thompson is the Stavros Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and co-director of the Materials Research Laboratory at MIT.

Broadening the range of material rewards

Headed by Carl Thompson, the newly formed Materials Research Laboratory opens up opportunities for industrial partnerships.

June 18, 2018

Artist and professor emerita Joan Jonas at MIT in 2014

MIT Professor Emerita Joan Jonas receives the 2018 Kyoto Prize

Artist and scholar cited for her “immeasurable impact” in pioneering the integration of performance art and new media.

June 15, 2018