Collaboration
MIT SHASS welcomes PEN New England to new home on campus
March 26, 2012
Buckle in
March 26, 2012
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
A close-up view of Mercury
March 22, 2012
Researchers find the planet may have had a dynamic past.
MacVicar Day celebrates the chemistry of collaboration
March 19, 2012
Speakers honor Margaret MacVicar and Robert Silbey.
Continuous drug manufacturing offers speed, lower costs
March 12, 2012
New system developed by MIT researchers could help transform the pharmaceutical industry.
Koch Institute, Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center announce launch of 'Bridge Project' to attack most-lethal forms of cancer
March 6, 2012
Institutions, research teams, non-profit organizations join forces in novel approaches targeting pancreatic cancer, glioblastoma.
Also labeled: Bioengineering and biotechnology, Biology, Cancer, Faculty, Hospitals, Koch Institute, Medicine, Research
MathWorks makes multi-year sponsorship commitment to MIT OpenCourseWare
March 2, 2012
Joins Dow Chemical and Lockheed Martin in OCW Next Decade Alliance to support global educational opportunity.
MIT OpenCourseWare teams up with Flat World Knowledge to combine free texts and free course materials
February 29, 2012
Collaboration among open education innovators creates rich learning opportunities for independent learners.
Delivering RNA with tiny sponge-like spheres
February 27, 2012
New RNA interference method holds promise for treating cancer, other diseases.
Cuthbert receives $500,000 Digging into Data grant
February 10, 2012
Will support innovative musicology research
MIT faculty see promise in American manufacturing
January 25, 2012
Study group is tackling hard questions about what it will take to stoke renewal.
AgeLab to build living mobility laboratory
January 19, 2012
Gender spenders
January 18, 2012
Study suggests yet another cause of personal debt: searching for the ideal mate.
Proposal for MIT Global Environment Initiative seeks public comment
December 21, 2011
Initiative expected to focus on six broad environmental research themes.
Also labeled: Environment, Faculty, MIT Administration, MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), Research, Students, Sustainability, Provost
Next stop: Kendall Square
November 23, 2011
Tech hub attracts players large and small to support innovation.
Digging for answers
November 22, 2011
MIT, Pfizer hold groundbreaking for new biomedical research facility in Kendall Square.
Inside an innovation ecosystem
November 22, 2011
History, proximity and serendipity make Kendall Square fertile ground for the next big idea.
Also labeled: Cambridge, Boston and region, Campus buildings and architecture, Faculty, Industry, Jobs, Kendall Square, Research, Students
Seeing cancer in three dimensions
November 21, 2011
Scientists find that the 3-D structure of a cancer cell’s chromosomes plays a big role in which genes get deleted or copied.
Also labeled: Broad Institute, Cancer, Genetics, Genome, Health sciences and technology, Physics, Research
Engineering Systems Division and MIT Press launch book series
November 16, 2011
Materials research in the Information Age
November 4, 2011
MIT, Lawrence Berkeley launch new tool to calculate properties of new materials
Also labeled: Commercialization, Computer science and technology, Energy, Genetics, Genome, Materials science
Searching for balloons in a social network
October 28, 2011
The key to mobilizing large numbers of people is incentives, study finds.
Skolkovo Foundation and MIT to collaborate on developing the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
October 26, 2011
Graduate research university part of new innovation center outside Moscow
Commemorating 20 years of the JR East Professorship
October 21, 2011
MIT Sea Grant contributes to stormwater monitoring effort in Kingston, Mass.
October 21, 2011
Coastal ecologist Juliet Simpson heads up nutrient sampling component.
What’s next for engineering education?
October 21, 2011
Dean of Engineering to share his views on engineering education in the face of increasing need for innovative technical leaders.
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