Powering desalination with the sun
PhD student Natasha Wright makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian villages.
Bubbling with passion for environmental engineering
A witness to “a montage of environmental changes” in her native China, grad student Ruby Fu now studies the fate of methane bubbles in the ocean.
School of Engineering awards for 2015
Awards were given to outstanding faculty, and graduate, and undergraduate students.
Students advancing a future with carbon-free fusion
PhD candidates Adam Kuang and Alex Creely are thriving after their first year at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
Five MIT students win MISTI Excellence Awards
Flagship international education program salutes emerging global citizens.
Help rebuild an MIT-inspired school destroyed by Nepal’s earthquakes
The Bloom Nepal School, founded on MIT's "mens-et-manus" ethos, was destroyed by the Nepal earthquakes. Learn how you can help the school rebuild.
National Geographic identifies six from MIT community as "Emerging Explorers"
Students, researchers, and alumni among 14 honored as "young trailblazers."
MIT team places sixth at international DARPA Robotics Challenge
CSAIL team just misses winning the grand prize after programming a 400-lb humanoid robot to lift beams, climb stairs, and drive a car.
Megan Smith: It’s mind, hand … and heart
In Commencement remarks, U.S. CTO stresses the importance of the personal, caring side of MIT.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the graduates
"Join the world. Find your calling. Solve the unsolvable. Invent the future," president tells Class of 2015.
Slideshow: 2015 doctoral hooding ceremony
Advanced degree candidates receive their doctoral hoods prior to Commencement.
Robotic challenger
MIT team prepares to meet 24 others in $2 million DARPA competition to develop disaster-assistance robots.
Using soccer to teach robotics
In this year's MechE World Cup, undergraduates joined forces to build soccer-playing robots that emulate human movement.