Three MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
Through the Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, the US Department of Defense supports research projects in areas of critical importance to national defense.
J-WAFS announces 2023 seed grant recipients
Fifteen principal investigators from across MIT will conduct early work to solve issues ranging from water contamination to aquaculture monitoring and management.
Inaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and move them from lab to land
Matt Shoulders will lead an interdisciplinary team to improve RuBisCO — the photosynthesis enzyme thought to be the holy grail for improving agricultural yield.
MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive nature of social media
An ambitious cross-disciplinary effort is launched to build healthier social networks.
Advocating for science budget and policy
MIT’s Science Policy Initiative sends students and postdocs to Capitol Hill to advocate for continued and increased federal support for scientific research.
J-PAL North America announces six new evaluation incubator partners to catalyze research on pressing social issues
The research center will support two nonprofits and four government agencies in designing randomized evaluations on housing stability, procedural justice, transportation, income assistance, and more.
Moving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
U.S. Department of Energy selects MIT to establish collaborative research center for optimizing the development of tandem solar modules.
Funding to Daniel Anderson’s lab will advance research on new delivery technology for RNA vaccines and therapies
The global health care company Sanofi is providing $25 million to advance RNA research.
MIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable materials
The teams will work toward sustainable microchips and topological materials as well as socioresilient materials design.
MIT Press announces inaugural recipients of the Grant Program for Diverse Voices
The grants expand funding for authors whose work brings diverse and chronically underrepresented perspectives to scholarship in the arts, humanities, and sciences.
Nine from MIT named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows
Annual award honors early-career researchers for creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments.
Four faculty receive MIT SHASS Research Fund awards for 2023
Funding will support development of multimedia play, innovative research projects.
MIT efforts support earthquake relief for communities in Turkey and Syria
Students, faculty, and staff have responded quickly in the wake of the disaster.
A new educational program for scientists working on substance use disorder
MIT Open Learning team awarded NIH grant to provide training in biomedical product development, entrepreneurship, and innovation.
MIT Press announces new initiative to increase the reach of academic scholarship
Shift+OPEN will flip existing subscription-based journals to a diamond open access publishing model.