Graduate, postdoctoral

This newly renovated kitchen in Senior House is only an example of the many improvements Housing made to residence halls throughout the summer.

Student input guides MIT Housing's summer renovations

East Campus, McCormick Hall, Next House and Senior House see new kitchens, facades and more.

September 5, 2012

Micrograph shows a group of <i>Ralstonia eutropha</i> bacteria in culture. In their natural form, as seen here, the microbes convert carbon in their surrounding into a kind of bioplastic — seen as the light-colored dots inside their membranes. But a biologically engineered version developed at MIT instead produces isobutanol fuel, which is then expelled from the cells into the surrounding medium...

Teaching a microbe to make fuel

Genetically modified organism could turn carbon dioxide or waste products into a gasoline-compatible transportation fuel.

August 21, 2012

Microwave (orange), optical (red, green, blue) and ultraviolet (blue) image of the Phoenix Cluster.

Most massive and luminous galaxy cluster identified

Detection may confirm long-held theory.

August 15, 2012

Chelsea Humbyrd and School of Engineering Dean Ian Waitz

CEE's Humbyrd wins School of Engineering teaching and mentoring award

Award recognizes and encourages extraordinary teaching and mentoring by a graduate student in the school.

August 8, 2012

New router enhances the precision of woodworking

Handheld device precisely follows a digital plan with minimal guidance from a user.

August 8, 2012

DUSP, Consensus Building Institute team awarded grant for climate change role-play project

Awarded $637,000 to develop joint project.

August 6, 2012

The victorious members of the MIT Cycling Team bite into their gold medals after placing first in the 2012 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships in Ogden, Utah. The MIT team has won national titles in various events over the past several years, establishing the club as a perennial powerhouse.

MIT Cycling Team rides to (another) national championship

Banner year for women and men cements club's reputation as perennial powerhouse.

August 2, 2012

An image undergoing basic processing steps; exposure adjustments, then noise reduction, to arrive at the final image (bottom).

Writing graphics software gets much easier

A new programming language for image-processing algorithms yields code that’s much shorter and clearer — but also faster.

August 2, 2012

Simons Center for the Social Brain offering seed grants, postdoc fellowships

Deadline for application is August 31.

July 26, 2012

An artist's representation of the structures produced by this self-assembly method shows a top-down view, with the posts produced by electron-beam lithography shown in blue, and the resulting self-assembled shapes shown in white.

Research update: Chips with self-assembling rectangles

New technique allows production of complex microchip structures in one self-assembling step.

July 19, 2012

Green sulfur bacteria, whose exceptional light-harvesting capabilities inspired the artificial system analyzed by postdoc Dörthe Eisele and her co-workers, dominate this hot spring at Yellowstone National Park and give it its striking green color.

Researchers explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light’s energy

Tiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency.

July 6, 2012

Marisa Gerla, left, and Mary Anito, right, visiting a local poultry enterprise in Mbarara, Uganda with Sarah Nabachwa, second from left, and Jacinta Nshemereirwe, third from left, of the Sustainable Household Income Project.

Student teams tackle Third World health care issues

LGO students add operations expertise to ghdLab projects

June 28, 2012

MIT Sloan School of Management Dean emeritus Glen Urban, the David Austin Professor of Marketing and the chairman of the MIT Center for Digital Business.

Glen Urban, former MIT Sloan dean, retires to focus on research; leaves behind $1 million gift

Establishes a PhD marketing fellowship at the school

June 11, 2012

A student with a replica of Earth surrounded by satellites sits in Rockwell Cage awaiting the procession to Killian Court to begin.

A festive day for MIT’s 146th Commencement exercises

Graduates reminisce and celebrate in innovative ways.

June 8, 2012

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers the Charge to the Graduates during the Commencement ceremony. This was Hockfield's final Commencement as president of MIT.

President Susan Hockfield’s charge to the 2012 graduates

‘Now is the moment for us to send you forth … to put MIT’s spirit and principles to work around the globe.’