Collaboration
Students examine Russian networks in action
February 22, 2013
MIT-Russia program sends 12 students to Moscow as part of “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Networks” IAP course
MIT hosts American Junior Academy of Science delegates
February 21, 2013
The Institution provides day’s worth of activities for more than 200 conference attendees.
Six new institutions join edX
February 20, 2013
Consortium doubles its institutional membership with the addition of universities in Australia, Europe, Canada and the United States.
Chinese students set their sights on an MIT future
February 19, 2013
Middle and high school students from Beijing engaged in project-based hands-on science and engineering lessons at the Edgerton Center.
Also labeled: China, Edgerton, Global, K-12 education, Students, Volunteering, outreach, public service, Alumni/ae, Circuits, LED, Photography, Student life
Students witness science policy in action
February 12, 2013
MIT students participate in the final mercury talks resulting in an international treaty.
CEE students build model Guastavino vault for exhibit
February 6, 2013
The students' vaulted ceiling replica is part of a touring exhibit now at the Boston Public Library.
Companies profit from embracing sustainability
February 5, 2013
Study by MIT Sloan Management Review and the Boston Consulting Group indicates more companies are profiting with sustainable business models.
CME student wins design prize at Cambridge University
January 31, 2013
Fareeha Safir discusses her award-winning microfluidics device and Cambridge-MIT Exchange program experience.
Research update: Multiple steps toward the ‘quantum singularity’
January 18, 2013
Over three days in December, four research groups announced progress on a quantum-computing proposal made two years ago by MIT researchers.
MIT educational video program heads to Malaysia
January 15, 2013
BLOSSOMS Initiative kicks off at the country’s University of Technology.
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.
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