Collaboration
MIT students attend international talks on mercury
January 11, 2013
Students will blog and tweet about their experiences in Geneva, Switzerland.
Students develop assistive technologies
January 8, 2013
Undergraduate teams create helpful phone apps and devices for people with disabilities.
Also labeled: Community, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), Education, teaching, academics, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (eecs), Innovation and Entrepreneurship (I&E), Students, Disabilities, Digital technology, Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Life in BASIC
January 2, 2013
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
Improving the accuracy of cancer diagnoses
December 24, 2012
New spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.
Skoltech, MIT reflect on first year of collaboration
December 21, 2012
Anniversary event celebrates international ties.
Inspiring the next generation
December 19, 2012
Telling Your Story workshop connects scientist and engineers with teachers and in the process helps to demystify STEM and excite the next generation of learners.
A flow of creativity
December 19, 2012
MIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.
School within a school: MIT Concourse
December 10, 2012
A learning community in which MIT freshmen explore the sciences, humanities and social sciences in a small, close-knit community (with a kitchen!)
Martin Schmidt to oversee MIT’s industry-facing offices
November 27, 2012
Associate provost will oversee Technology Licensing Office and Office of Corporate Relations; retains duties around space planning.
All that is solid melts into air: Tomás Saraceno visits MIT
November 26, 2012
CAST visiting artist creates inflatable and airborne biospheres: speculative models for alternate ways of living.
Rice University engineering students experience engineering leadership — MIT style
November 20, 2012
Recapping the Gordon-MIT ELP's visit to the Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL)
Controlling heat flow through a nanostructure
November 15, 2012
MIT researchers find that heat moving in materials called superlattices behaves like waves; finding could enable better thermoelectrics.
Inside the unconscious brain
November 5, 2012
New study reveals brain-wave patterns that mark loss of consciousness during anesthesia.
MIT Libraries’ research contributes to award-winning redistricting software, DistrictBuilder
November 5, 2012
Web-based resource gives citizens the opportunity to participate in the redistricting process.
Also labeled: Awards, honors and fellowships, Data, Libraries, Mapping, Open source, Politics, Research, Software, Voting and elections
MIT Auto-ID Labs launches ‘Cloud of Things’ initiative
November 2, 2012
Initiative brings together academia, industry to support the development, adoption, best practices and commercial success of big-data applications in mobile retail commerce.
Belfer gift creates consortium targeting neurodegenerative diseases
October 29, 2012
Collaboration unites Picower Institute at MIT with MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine.
The state of the U.S. election system
October 18, 2012
New report from MIT and Caltech notes gains in voting-machine technologies, but warns they could be cancelled out by errors introduced through mail and Internet voting.
Three Washington, D.C. biology teachers create online video lessons for MIT BLOSSOMS Program
October 12, 2012
New interactive map assesses solar power potential of Cambridge
October 2, 2012
Public launch for project taking place Oct. 3
Also labeled: Architecture, Cambridge, Boston and region, Electric vehicles, Energy, Faculty, Photovoltaics, Research, Solar
Measuring the universe’s ‘exit door’
September 27, 2012
For the first time, an international team has measured the radius of a black hole.
Understanding and predicting materials behavior
September 26, 2012
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering takes an interdisciplinary approach
MIT’s place in the world
September 20, 2012
Inaugural symposium addresses the Institute’s global engagement.
Also labeled: Education, teaching, academics, Faculty, Global Education and Career Development, Globalization, Inauguration, Global, Masdar, President L. Rafael Reif, Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Skolkovo, Students, Electrical engineering and electronics, History, Linguistics, OpenCourseWare, Philosophy, Staff, Undergraduate, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), MISTI, Online learning, D-Lab
The art of being interdisciplinary
September 18, 2012
Babel Working Group hosts 'Cruising in the Ruins' conference
MIT OpenCourseWare releases first episode of the ChemLab Boot Camp Series
September 18, 2012
Videos follow 14 MIT freshmen through their introduction to hands-on science.
Study maps pollution’s pathway to the Arctic, sets path for future research
September 10, 2012
MIT researchers have built a model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments.
Researchers identify biochemical functions for most of the human genome
September 5, 2012
New map provides a reference for interpreting function of disease-associated regions.
ChemLab Boot Camp: MIT OpenCourseWare launches reality series
August 14, 2012
A new series of videos to be published this fall follows 14 MIT freshmen through their introduction to hands-on science.
The wisdom of crowds
August 10, 2012
A recent paper out of Manolis Kellis' group shows the wisdom of crowds when it comes to selecting methods for analyzing gene regulatory networks.
Study: Many Americans die with ‘virtually no financial assets’
August 3, 2012
Innovative research shows large divergence in retirement saving outcomes, with the single elderly faring worse than married couples.
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