Suresh awarded prestigious Padma Shri from government of India
NSF director and former MIT engineering dean receives highest civilian honor.
Martin Hackl's Experimental Syntax and Semantics Lab generates knowledge about meaning formation
Role of linguistic form stronger than previously realized.
How liquids behave
Researchers identify a fundamental property of how water and other liquids move at different temperatures.
Graphene electrodes for organic solar cells
Researchers identify technique that could make a new kind of solar photovoltaic panel practical.
Suresh discusses the role of engineering in the study of infectious disease
In public lecture at MIT, former dean describes progress in understanding malaria.
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.
Teaching biology with technology
Klopfer awarded $2 million grant from the National Science Foundation to improve high school teaching
Putting heads together
New study: groups demonstrate distinctive ‘collective intelligence’ when facing difficult tasks
Stately Killian Court serves as testing ground for new geotech tool
Civil engineers develop new probe for determining soil characteristics.
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.
School of Engineering Dean Search Advisory Committee appointed
12-member group will be led by Professor Jeffrey Shapiro.
NSF award funds Media Lab researchers work on Autism spectrum disorders
Collaboration is the first large-scale effort of computer and behavioral scientists to jointly address ASD.
Suresh formally nominated to lead NSF
President Obama sends MIT engineering dean’s nomination to the U.S. Senate