Faculty

MIT’s place in the worldInaugural symposium addresses the Institute’s global engagement.

Open Education on the Move: An Interview with Vijay KumarDirector of MIT's Office of Educational Innovation and Technology (OEIT) discusses some of the key concepts propelling the open education movement.

Inauguration festivities off to a stimulating startInnovation symposium touches on a dizzying array of topics, with themes of interdisciplinary collaboration, energy and innovation for the developing world.

Del Alamo receives SRC 2012 Technical Excellence Award

What the past teaches: meeting today’s global environmental challengesAtmospheric science pioneer Susan Solomon speaks on past environmental accomplishments, technology’s role and how history should be our guide to meeting today’s global challenges.

Inclusion and excellence go hand in handThink about nominating a colleague for this year's Excellence Awards.

Said and Done for September 2012Digest of MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences.

The Edgerton Center turns 20Professor J. Kim Vandiver on the history and future of the Edgerton Center.

Harris to receive President’s Award from NOBCChENational Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers to honor professor, associate provost on Sept. 28.

MIT's Man Vehicle Laboratory turns 50Celebrating anniversary with daylong symposium on Sept. 14

R. Scott Kemp brings new perspectives on nuclear technology and society

Leonard A. Gould, EECS emeritus professor, dies at 85Joined MIT faculty in 1953; studied control problems and dynamic modeling.

Four from MIT win NIH grantsBrown, Gore, Ploegh and Zhang receive grants for innovative biomedical research.

In profile: Chris ZegrasMIT urban planner builds tools that help designers make cities cleaner and greener.

Converting plant waste into biofuelsPromising advances using yeast and fungi.

Preview of an inaugurationIn addition to marking the beginning of L. Rafael Reif’s term as MIT’s 17th president, the festivities will celebrate the MIT community’s ethic of service.

Q&A: Junot Díaz on his new bookThe MIT professor and Pulitzer-winning writer talks about the people and ideas in his newest work, This Is How You Lose Her — and explains why women form a big part of his core audience.

Study maps pollution’s pathway to the Arctic, sets path for future researchMIT 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.

Fundamentals of Biology now available in OCW Scholar formatCourse is the last of seven OCW has published this year specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.

Predicting how patients respond to therapyBrain scans could help doctors choose treatments for people with social anxiety disorder.

Benson Rowell Snyder, former psychiatrist-in-chief at MIT, dies at 89

Designing with damaged landA citizens’ guide to reclaiming abandoned mine sites ecologically

Understanding gambling addictionFor machine gamblers, it’s not whether they win or lose — it’s how much they play the game.

Connoisseur of chaosWhere other roboticists try to suppress the complex dynamics of mechanical systems, Russ Tedrake exploits them, to make control more efficient and versatile.

Seth Mnookin wins 2012 Science in Society AwardNational Association of Science Writers honors his book The Panic Virus.