campus news

For renovated dorms, what you don’t see is what you getBehind-the-scenes summer housing improvements offer significant benefit to several residential halls.

NASA and MIT inspire girls’ interest in science and engineeringMIT Edgerton Center takes on NASA’s Summer of Innovation with 5 summer programs. Learn more about one of them.

Anish Kapoor sculpture unveiled in Stata CenterBold addition to Institute’s public-art collection made possible by MIT’s Percent-For-Art Program and donations.

Slideshow: Orientation 2010New students welcomed to campus.

The Salp: Nature’s near-perfect little engine just got betterThese efficient organisms may help remove carbon dioxide from the upper ocean

MIT formally welcomes Class of 2014President’s Convocation in Killian Court salutes new students and their families

TIME Magazine selects MIT OpenCourseWare as one of its 50 best websites of 2010OCW shares honor with LinkedIn, TEDTalks, The Guardian and more.

MIT researchers among Technology Review’s annual list of the world’s top young innovators‘TR35’ to be honored at Technology Review’s EmTech@MIT conference next month.

Roger W. Sudbury, former executive officer at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, dies at age 72A leader in microwave solid-state electronics for radar, he worked at the Laboratory for 41 years and became a trusted adviser and mentor to many.

NSF award funds Media Lab researchers work on Autism spectrum disordersCollaboration is the first large-scale effort of computer and behavioral scientists to jointly address ASD.

Walter Lewin on 20th century artMIT physicist gives art history lecture

MIT undergraduate engineering again ranked No. 1U.S. News and World Report ranks MIT Sloan’s undergraduate program second among peer institutions.

Zwierlein a winner of DARPA’s Young Faculty Award competitionWill receive two-year research grant of approximately $300,000

James Keck, professor emeritus of mechanical engineering, dies at 86Worked on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos