National Science Foundation (NSF)

Trish Gregg and Subra Suresh pictured at the White House. Another MIT alum, Kate Huntington PhD '06, was among the 14 outstanding early career scientists invited to the event.

Young scientists and babies: White House policy begins with alumna request

A new White House initiative to provide workplace flexibility to young scientists — starting with the National Science Foundation — has MIT fingerprints all over it.

September 30, 2011

MIT part of $18.5 million effort to create mind-machine interface

New multi-institution center will work on robotic interaction with nervous system

July 14, 2011

Vest wins NSB's Vannevar Bush award

President emeritus honored for public service leadership

April 11, 2011

NSF Director Subra Suresh receives the Padma Shri award.

Suresh awarded prestigious Padma Shri from government of India

NSF director and former MIT engineering dean receives highest civilian honor.

April 11, 2011

Martin Hackl, associate professor of linguistics

Martin Hackl's Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab generates knowledge about meaning formation

Role of linguistic form stronger than previously realized.

February 15, 2011

How liquids behave

Researchers identify a fundamental property of how water and other liquids move at different temperatures.

January 14, 2011

The structure of graphene, a flexible material made of carbon atoms arranged in a layer just one atom thick, is represented in this diagram.

Graphene electrodes for organic solar cells

Researchers identify technique that could make a new kind of solar photovoltaic panel practical.

January 6, 2011

NSF Director and former School of Engineering Dean Subra Suresh.

Suresh discusses the role of engineering in the study of infectious disease

In public lecture at MIT, former dean describes progress in understanding malaria.

December 13, 2010

By mining an enormous database of telecommunications data, MIT researchers and colleagues at Cornell and University College London divided Great Britain into regions with strong internal information connections but weaker connections to adjacent regions. In large part, the new partitioning mirrored existing political divisions, but there were notable exceptions near the Welsh border and to the nor...

Can telecom data help redraw political boundaries?

By analyzing one of the world’s largest databases of phone data, researchers partition Great Britain into densely interconnected regions.

December 9, 2010

Fox Harrell, associate professor of digital media, is MIT’s first professor to hold both an appointment in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences and to serve as a principal investigator in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

Harrell convenes thought-leaders to catalyze new research informed by science, humanities and arts disciplines

December 2, 2010

John Holdren ’65, SM ’66, right, formally swears in Subra Suresh as NSF director as Suresh’s wife, Mary, looks on.

Suresh sworn in as NSF director

Holdren administers oath of office.

October 19, 2010

Students will not only be using pre-built simulations, but also creating their own. Pictured here, the StarLogo TNG program code, expressed by the puzzle piece blocks, underlying a model of ecology and evolution, and the resulting 3-D simulation.

Teaching biology with technology

Klopfer awarded $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve high school teaching

October 18, 2010

Thomas W. Malone, the Patrick J. McGovern Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Putting heads together

New study: groups demonstrate distinctive ‘collective intelligence’ when facing difficult tasks

October 1, 2010

From left to right, Peter Flemings, Mark Andrews and Kristopher Darnell of the University of Texas at Austin; Stephen Ramsdell and Orrin Cone, drillers with New England Boring; and John Germaine pose on Killian Court with a drilling rig that helped the researchers gather data on an experimental probe that measures soil pore pressure.

Stately Killian Court serves as testing ground for new geotech tool

Civil engineers develop new probe for determining soil characteristics.

September 30, 2010

Subra Suresh, dean of the MIT School of Engineering, has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the next director of the National Science Foundation.

Subra Suresh to head National Science Foundation

MIT’s dean of engineering has been confirmed by the United States Senate to direct the largest supporter of non-medical basic-science research in the country.