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“We believe that AI plays a key role now, and in the future development of the region, if it’s used in the right way,” says Omar Costilla Reyes, one of four MIT graduate students working to help Latin America adopt artificial intelligence technologies. Pictured here (left to right) are Costilla Reyes, Emilia Simison, Pedro Antonio Colon-Hernandez, and Guillermo Bernal.

Students push to speed up artificial intelligence adoption in Latin America

To help the region catch up, students organize summit to bring Latin policymakers and researchers to MIT.

November 19, 2019

MIT and Lamborghini recently filed a joint patent for a material that will serve as the technological base for a new generation of supercapacitors. Here, Patricia Das ’17, who interned at Automobili Lamborghini through MIT-Italy, is seen at work at Lamborghini Santa Agata Bolognese Labs.

Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future

MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe.

November 19, 2019

MIT researchers have developed a method to isolate T cells that bind to different targets and then sequence their RNA.

Technique identifies T cells primed for certain allergies or infections

Researchers develop a method to isolate and sequence the RNA of T cells that react to a specific target.

November 19, 2019

Left to right: chief innovation officer for the newly created Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation in Sierra Leone and alumnus David Sengeh PhD '15, EECS student Michal Reda, Minister of Tertiary and Higher Education of Sierra Leone Aiah Gbakima, and MISTI-Africa participant and physics and mechanical engineering alumnus Mgcini "Keith" Phuthi ’19.

Expanding education: From Africa to Cambridge and back again

Mgcini "Keith" Phuthi ’19, a native Zimbabwean, uses his experiences at MIT to develop improvements in education policy in Sierra Leone through MISTI-Africa.

November 18, 2019

In lane-merging scenarios, a system developed at MIT could distinguish between altruistic and egoistic driving behavior.

Predicting people's driving personalities

System from MIT CSAIL sizes up drivers as selfish or selfless. Could this help self-driving cars navigate in traffic?

November 18, 2019

MIT research finds the emergence of cooperative cell clusters depends on cells encountering each other and aggregating on the surface of polysaccharide particles.

Microbial cooperation at the micron scale impacts biodegradation

MIT researchers demonstrate how often-ignored microbial interactions have a significant impact on the biodegradation of complex materials.

November 15, 2019

The section of the MIT.nano courtyard that runs along the south side of the building has been named the Improbability Walk, in honor of Mildred Dresselhaus.

Improbability Walk at MIT.nano honors Mildred Dresselhaus

Courtyard space celebrates beloved professor’s research and mentorship.

November 15, 2019

Ali Daher

MIT senior wins 2020 Rhodes Scholarship for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region

The Rhodes Scholarship offers opportunities for Arab students.

November 15, 2019

Areg Danagoulian has committed himself to generating new technologies that reduce nuclear security threats and that offer game-changing options in the arena of nuclear nonproliferation and treaty verification.

Advancing nuclear detection and inspection

Assistant professor of nuclear science and engineering Areg Danagoulian probes deep inside cargo containers and ballistic warheads to ferret out fissile materials.

November 14, 2019

MIT engineers have developed a way to encapsulate nutrients in a biocompatible polymer, making it easier to use them to fortify foods.

Microparticles could help fight malnutrition

New strategy for encapsulating nutrients makes it easier to fortify foods with iron and vitamin A.

November 13, 2019

Twenty women from around the world were selected to participate in MIT CEE’s workshop to bring together the next generation of leaders in CEE and help prepare them for a career in academia.

Rising Stars in civil and environmental engineering come to MIT

MIT CEE hosts workshop for early-career women in academia.

November 13, 2019

Schematic illustration of probe adsorption influenced by an attractive interaction within the corona

SMART discovers nondisruptive way to characterize the surface of nanoparticles

New method overcomes limitations of existing chemical procedures and may accelerate nanoengineering of materials.

November 12, 2019

Oil and natural gas wells require concrete to seal the area between the well casing and the surrounding borehole, but because of the high temperatures and pressures at depth, it has been hard to study how these specialized cements harden. Now, a new method developed at MIT can help to fill in that missing knowledge.

New tools could improve the way cement seals oil wells

Techniques for observing concrete as it sets could facilitate the development of new cements.

November 12, 2019

Faculty, staff, and graduate students gathered for a luncheon and awards ceremony celebrating MIT’s 2020 Siebel Scholars.

Sixteen grad students named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2020

MIT students from the fields of bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science receive the prestigious awards.

November 12, 2019

A new tool reveals what AI models leave out in recreating a scene. Here, a GAN, or generative adversarial network, has dropped the pair of newlyweds from its reconstruction (right) of the photo it was asked to draw (left).

Visualizing an AI model’s blind spots

New tool highlights what generative models leave out when reconstructing a scene.

November 8, 2019