Era of astronomical discovery
MIT professor Nergis Mavalvala helps build tools to detect gravitational waves.
John King, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88
Innovative researcher and educator was a champion of attacking science problems with “ferocious vigor.”
Professor Seth Teller dies at age 50
Expert on computer vision, robotics, and human-robot interaction had been on the faculty since 1994.
Mark Jarzombek named interim dean of the School of Architecture and Planning
Historian, critic, and theorist has been a faculty member since 1996 and associate dean since 2007.
Mathematical patchwork
Alice Guionnet, an authority on random matrix theory, aims to make sense of huge data sets.
Robert Langer receives Kyoto Prize
Institute Professor cited as "a founder of the field of tissue engineering."
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.