Help design the MIT 150 exhibition
The entire MIT community is invited to a special design workshop that will help develop themes and content for the MIT 150 anniversary exhibition.
Biochemist JoAnne Stubbe wins National Medal of Science
Nation's top science honor goes to MIT biochemist for her role in helping reveal the mechanism of enzymes involved in DNA replication and repair
Avoiding carbon copies
Can free-market enterprise generate clean-energy breakthroughs? Economist Daron Acemoglu says it's unlikely — unless government and universities help.
In Profile: Leonard Guarente
Biology professor discovered a gene at the center of aging. Now that research is yielding therapies that target the diseases of old age.
Statement on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy
MIT President Susan Hockfield's statement on the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy
Andrew Whittle to head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
A geotechnical engineer who served on the
panel reviewing the hurricane protection systems in New Orleans
following Hurricane Katrina is the new head
of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.