Mixing solids and liquids enhances optical properties of both
New approach can dramatically change the extent to which optical devices scatter light.
MIT at the Venice Biennale
On a global stage, MIT helps steer architecture toward solving worldwide challenges.
Grant funds innovation in teacher education
New program provides funding for three projects working to improve STEM education.
Controlling RNA in living cells
Modular, programmable proteins can be used to track or manipulate gene expression.
A robust presence for MIT at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Faculty, researchers, graduate students, and alumni represented in 10 exhibitions and pavilions.
Collegiate inventors awarded 2016 Lemelson-MIT Student Prize
Students recognized for inventive solutions to challenges in health care, transportation, consumer devices, food, and agriculture.
Experiencing underwater worlds, virtually
"Amphibian" SCUBA simulator advances the field of virtual reality while exploring the relationship between diving and disability.
Using new models and big data to better understand financial risk
Bringing together engineers, data theorists, mathematicians, economists, biologists, and policy experts, IDSS is looking at financial risk through a multidisciplinary lens.
Using data from social networks to understand and improve systems
Researchers in IDSS are learning how ideas evolve over networks, quantifying the influence of individuals in networks, and making better predictions.
April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus
Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future event offers a playful introduction to research at MIT.
President Serzh A. Sargsyan of Armenia visits MIT
Tour includes meeting with MIT President L. Rafael Reif, visit to Media Lab.
Reflection-removing camera
Device uses depth sensor and signal processing to capture clear images through windows.
Plotting the complex path of products
Startup’s software maps out convoluted supply chains for companies and consumers
Architecture symposium March 30 and 31: Exploring the campus then, now, next
Event welcomes more than 20 speakers over four sessions on designing places for inventing the future.
Innovating for billions
Emerging Worlds, a Media Lab and Tata Center initiative, seeks to catalyze change on a massive scale.