Faculty

Daniel Hastings to step down as dean for undergraduate educationFollowing seven years of administrative leadership, Hastings will return to the MIT faculty.

AIAA honors David Mindell for ‘Digital Apollo’MIT professor’s book earns Gardner-Lasser Aerospace History Literature Award.

Using prizes to spur innovationMIT Professor Fiona Murray produces concrete guidelines on designing and executing Grand Innovation Prizes.

Sports Shorts for Jan. 7: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athleticsMen’s basketball opens conference play with victory; Faculty Athletics Rep. Hank Smith honored by NFF

Remembering ‘Papa Flash’MIT Professor Harold Edgerton’s high-speed photography and sonar devices revolutionized ocean exploration.

Two MIT professors win prestigious Wolf PrizeMichael Artin and Robert Langer honored for groundbreaking work in mathematics and chemistry.

Research update: Jumping droplets help heat transferScalable nanopatterned surfaces designed by MIT researchers could make for more efficient power generation and desalination.

President Obama announces intent to appoint Esther Duflo to Global Development CouncilMIT development economist nominated for presidential policy council.

Editing the genome with high precisionNew method allows scientists to insert multiple genes in specific locations, delete defective genes.

Simons Center for the Social Brain offering seed grants, postdoc fellowshipsDeadline for applications is February 28.

New insights into how brain synapses transmit informationTwo essential proteins regulate the molecular machinery that controls neuronal communication and the release of signals between neurons.

Life in BASICNick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.

Professor Roger Kamm visualizes sneaky tumor cells with 3-D assayKamm is studying the mechanics of metastasis, the process of cancer-cell migration from one location in the body to another and the cause of more than 90 percent of cancer deaths.

Improving the accuracy of cancer diagnosesNew spectroscopy technique could help doctors better identify breast tumors.

Chisholm, Langer awarded nation’s highest honors for scientists and inventorsTwo MIT professors are awarded the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.

President Obama announces intent to appoint Maria Zuber to National Science BoardMIT geophysicist nominated for 25-member governing board of the National Science Foundation.

Skoltech, MIT reflect on first year of collaborationAnniversary event celebrates international ties.

Objects by architectsOne of Several Recent Exhibits at SA+P’s Keller Gallery

Flexible, light solar cells could provide new opportunitiesMIT researchers develop a new approach using graphene sheets coated with nanowires.

American Philosophical Association honors Judith Jarvis ThomsonBestows Quinn Prize for lifelong contributions to philosophy

Historian/physicist David Kaiser wins Physics World’s 'Book of the Year Award'Kaiser is the head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics.

Q&A: Associate Provost Philip Khoury on foreign policy in the Middle EastThe Ford International Professor of History also talks about how an engineering school benefits the humanities and social science community.

MIT researchers discover a new kind of magnetismExperiments demonstrate ‘quantum spin liquid,’ which could have applications in new computer memory storage.

A flow of creativityMIT’s Gediminas Urbonas emerged from the old Soviet Union to produce new art in Cambridge.

A winning vision for the future of urban mobilityYoon and partner awarded grand prize in international competition.

MIT Chapel is open dawn to duskThis week, chaplains especially available for private conversations

Outsized influenceMIT Philosophy has extraordinary success placing PhD graduates in top tenure-track positions.