Faculty highlight: Paula Hammond
Engineering tiny paths to cancer treatment, bone regrowth, and wound healing, Paula Hammond serves as an exemplary researcher-educator within the MIT community.
High-performance computing programming with ease
Alan Edelman leads the global, open-source collaboration developing "Julia," a powerful but flexible programming language for high performance computing.
When good people do bad things
Being in a group makes some people lose touch with their personal moral beliefs, researchers find.
From contemporary syntax to human language’s deep origins
New paper amplifies hypothesis that human language builds on birdsong and speech forms of other primates.
MIT graduates urged: “Solve the unsolvable!”
“Many of tomorrow’s problems are going to be solved by you,” DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman tells 2014 grads.
Lallit Anand selected for ASME Drucker Medal
Professor of mechanical engineering receives one of the highest career achievement distinctions in mechanics
Michael Sipser named dean of the School of Science
Sipser has served as interim dean since Marc Kastner’s departure.
SHASS announces the 2014 Levitan Awards for Excellence in Teaching
Honor recognizes nine outstanding teachers nominated by students.
Dahleh is appointed to William A. Coolidge Professorship
Coolidge chair was established in 1988 to honor devoted member of MIT Corporation
A new approach to diversity research
MIT professor suggests a rethinking of homogeneity as the baseline used to study diversity.
Minimal surfaces, maximal impact
MIT mathematician William Minicozzi unleashes ‘a wave of new results’ in geometric analysis.