MIT shares reopening plans with Cambridge City Council
Representatives detail plans to monitor and manage Covid-19 cases as students prepare to return to campus.
Building empathy and sharing wisdom on MIT’s Day of Dialogue
With more than 1,000 participants, daylong event encourages anti-racism conversations in the MIT community.
Nuh Gedik and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero are 2020 Moore Experimental Investigators in Quantum Materials
Funding will support using light to study quantum materials and on twistronics research to advance superconductivity and quantum technologies.
3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future examines job changes in the AV transition and how training can help workers move into careers that support mobility systems.
3 Questions: La-Tarri Canty and Jason McKnight on dismantling racism
Co-chairs of MIT’s Day of Dialogue committee share their hopes for the Aug. 5 event.
New US postage stamp highlights MIT research
For the robotics category in a new series celebrating innovation, the USPS chose the bionic prosthesis designed and built by the Media Lab's Biomechatronics group.
Edward Allen, longtime professor of architecture, dies at 81
Known for embracing technical constraints in architectural design, Allen influenced students and professionals around the world.
Q&A: Peter Fisher discusses JASON report on reopening university laboratories
MIT physicist led government-backed effort to study the challenges and solutions surrounding campus lab work.
3 Questions: Jonathan King on the future of nuclear weapons testing
Professor of biology discusses a scientist’s responsibility to speak out about important issues that affect our nation and the world.
School of Engineering first and second quarter 2020 awards
Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the past two quarters.
With Perseverance and a little MOXIE, MIT is going to Mars
Led by MIT researchers, one of the experiments aboard the next mission to the Red Planet aims to generate oxygen from Martian air.
Ila Fiete studies how the brain performs complex computations
The MIT professor takes a mathematical approach to exploring memory, navigation, and other neural functions.
The tenured engineers of 2020
Eight faculty members have been granted tenure in five departments across the School of Engineering.
3 Questions: Ibrahim Cissé on using physics to decipher biology
A physicist employs super-resolution microscopy to peer inside living cells and witness never-before-seen phenomena.