Feng Zhang wins NSF's Alan T. Waterman Award
Waterman Award is NSF's highest honor recognizing an outstanding researcher under the age of 35.
Homing in on stressed coral
Sulfurous chemical known as ‘smell of the sea’ serves as clarion call for coral pathogens.
How anti-poverty programs go viral
Study: Getting the well-connected to spread the word helps more people learn about microfinance programs in rural India.
Saurabh Amin to be chief scientist on multi-institutional NSF grant
Project aims to improve security and operations of civil and environmental engineering structures and systems
Anna Frebel receives NSF CAREER Award
Frebel will work on identifying large numbers of 12 to 13 billion-year-old stars in the galactic halo
Four MIT researchers attend White House announcement of brain initiative
Obama invites Boyden, Brown, Desimone and Seung to launch of new federal initiative.
Watching fluid flow at nanometer scales
Researchers find that tiny nanowires can lift liquids as effectively as tubes.
Subra Suresh named next president of Carnegie Mellon University
Former dean of the MIT School of Engineering to step down from NSF post.
Chisholm, Langer receive nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventors
President Obama presented the two MIT professors with the National Medal of Science and National Medal of Technology and Innovation on Friday.
MIT researchers honored for 'Revealing Invisible Changes'
CSAIL team recognized by National Science Foundation for video that catches motions too subtle for the naked eye.
Recent Course X grad named one of Forbes magazine's '30 Under 30'
Pedro Valencia PhD '12 honored for drug research.
President Obama announces intent to appoint Maria Zuber to National Science Board
MIT geophysicist nominated for 25-member governing board of the National Science Foundation.