New faculty in engineering
Twelve new faces join six academic departments in the School of Engineering.
Jay Scheib named new housemaster for Senior House
Committee recommends music and theater arts professor for MIT’s oldest residential community.
Decoding the meaning of language
Linguist Kai von Fintel engages in research at the intersection of science and the humanities.
Making more than pretty pictures
Felice Frankel uses strong visual vocabulary to eliminate ambiguity and sell ideas.
Biology, driven by data
Newly tenured biological engineer Ernest Fraenkel goes where the numbers lead.
From fiction to science
Peter Reddien believes human stem cells could one day be regulated to replace aged, damaged, and missing tissues.
Stephen Buchwald receives BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Basic Sciences
BBVA Foundation honors chemistry professor for his development of catalytic routes to construct carbon-nitrogen and carbon-carbon bonds.
Alumni gift to SHASS establishes Cynthia L. Reed Chair in French Studies and Language
Associate Professor Bruno Perreau will be first to occupy the new chair, which will have a profound impact on French studies at MIT.
Professor emeritus Richard Schafer, former deputy head of mathematics at MIT, dies at 96
MIT mathematician and emeritus professor Richard Schafer dies at 96
Evolutionary approaches to big-data problems
Una-May O'Reilly applies machine learning and evolutionary algorithms to tackle some of the world's biggest big-data challenges.