Susan Hockfield to step down
MIT’s 16th president led Institute in service to nation and world; met recession with unprecedented fundraising success and careful budget management.
New system allows robots to continuously map their environment
Algorithm to build 3-D maps requires a low-cost camera, no human input.
Paola Cappellaro wins AFOSR Young Investigator Award
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering assistant professor is investigating a bottom-up approach to quantum information devices.
Jens Hainmueller: A 'numbers' guy takes on pressing public policy issues
Political science associate professor ties together qualitative and quantitative ways of thinking about politics and society.
Moving past trial and error
Richard Braatz applies math to design new materials and processes for drug manufacturing.
Professor Alice Ting wins Vilcek Foundation Prize for Creative Promise in Biomedical Science
Honored for her contribution to technologies for protein visualization in living cells.
MITx prototype course opens for enrollment
Online-learning initiative’s first offering, ‘6.002x: Circuits and Electronics,’ accepting registrants now.
MIT honors Martin Luther King Jr. at 38th annual breakfast
Diversity and education among breakfast-table topics.
Five MIT engineers named to National Academy of Engineering
Several Institute alumni also among 66 new members announced today.
MIT Libraries receive papers of distinguished linguist, philosopher and activist Noam Chomsky
Significant collection spans a long and distinguished career dating to 1955.
Putting lab life under the lens
Economist Scott Stern advances the scientific study of, well, scientists.
Proof that 'MIT Can Talk'
IAP activity promotes campus-wide awareness of good oral communication skills.
