Seeing the plasma edge of fusion experiments in new ways with artificial intelligence
MIT researchers are testing a simplified turbulence theory’s ability to model complex plasma phenomena using a novel machine-learning technique.
MIT students explore food sustainability
First-year students visit nonprofit grocer in Central Square providing low-cost, nutritious food; learn about food resources at MIT.
Meet the 2021-22 Accenture Fellows
The 2021-22 Accenture Fellows are bolstering research and igniting ideas to help transform global business.
Helping to make nuclear fusion a reality
MIT PhD student Rachel Bielajew is taking on plasma turbulence, and helping make a better world — through science and community action.
MIT community in 2021: A year in review
Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of a diverse community, and more.
Q&A: John Dozier on the Strategic Action Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
MIT’s Institute community and equity officer discusses the opportunities and challenges of building consensus, the tensions between short and long-term planning, and the processes for bringing the MIT community together.
Illuminating the history and global story of antibiotics
HASTS PhD student Rijul Kochhar tracks changing medical and microbial realities, and examines what they portend for society.
Expanding the conversation about sustainability
Senior Stacy Godfreey-Igwe seeks to make marginalized communities more visible in the fight against climate change.
$7 million gift from the Shiv Nadar Foundation bolsters undergraduate research and women in EECS
Gift will help establish the Vamasundari Devi Fellowship Fund to provide financial support to graduate students and the SuperUROP program, which provides undergraduates with two-semester research opportunities.
David Li wins 2022 Marshall Scholarship
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the U.K., at Cambridge and Oxford universities.
Graduate students honored with national math prize
Travis Dillon and Alex Cohen are recognized with 2022 AMS-MAA-SIAM Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research in Mathematics.
Climbing new heights across New England
Since 2014, MIT Outing Club members — new and advanced outdoor enthusiasts — come together for its annual School of Rock, a weekend program teaching and advancing outdoor rock-climbing skills.
With “Hello!” as its theme, 2.009 returns to the stage
New products presented by students at the annual event included a curb-climbing wheelchair attachment and seizure-preventing glasses.
Meet the Oystamaran
Working directly with oyster farmers, MIT students are developing a robot that can flip heavy, floating bags of oysters, helping the shellfish to grow and stay healthy.
Making her way through MIT
Graduate student Lucy Du designs novel prosthetics and seeks to inspire others to pursue engineering.