Three graduate students honored for hydrofoil research
Led by MIT researcher Stefano Brizzolara, the team earned second place in this year's Mandles Prize for Hydrofoil Excellence competition.
MIT ranked as nation’s No. 7 university by U.S. News
Undergraduate engineering program is again No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.
Mass spectrometry in your hand
Electrospray arrays can dramatically downsize systems and costs for onsite chemical analysis — and many other applications.
Sun-powered desalination for villages in India
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.
A lifelong relationship with the Institute
Newly tenured Evelyn Wang — whose parents met at MIT — studies heat transfer in materials.
Obama names Megan Smith as Chief Technology Officer of the U.S.
MIT Corporation member and alumna will guide White House information-technology policy and initiatives.
The connector
Munther Dahleh’s expertise in mathematical modeling gives him profound insight into people, and MIT.
Re-inventing the grid
Cambridge-based MIT startup Ambri is building a novel liquid metal battery for grid-level storage to revolutionize energy in the 21st century.
Nature’s tiny engineers
Coral organisms use minuscule appendages to control their environment, stirring up water eddies to bring nutrients.
The power of hidden patterns
Interfaces within materials can be patterned as a means of controlling the properties of composites.
Classroom contest yields publishable results
Students’ designs for cellular-networking protocols help define the limits of protocol performance.
Sorting cells with sound waves
Acoustic device that separates tumor cells from blood cells could help assess cancer’s spread.