Research Profiles
Click one of the links to left or a link below to find out more about the research being conducting by departments, laboratories, centers, and other programs at MIT. Each page in this section provides important contact information for UROP coordinators, along with detailed faculty research descriptions.
Academic Departments
- Civil and Environmental Engineering (Course 1)
- Mechanical Engineering (Course 2)
- Materials Science & Engineering (Course 3)
- Architecture (Course 4)
- Chemistry (Course 5)
- Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (Course 6)
- Biology (Course 7)
- Physics (Course 8)
- Brain & Cognitive Sciences (Course 9)
- Chemical Engineering (Course 10)
- Urban Studies & Planning (Course 11)
- Earth, Atmospheric, & Planetary Sciences (Course 12)
- Economics (Course 14)
- Sloan School of Management (Course 15)
- Aeronautics & Astronautics (Course 16)
- Political Science (Course 17)
- Mathematics (Course 18)
- Biological Engineering (Course 20)
- Anthropology (Course 21A)
- Foreign Languages & Literatures (Course 21F)
- History (Course 21H)
- Literature (Course 21L)
- Music & Theater Arts (Course 21M)
- Program in Writing & Humanistic Studies (Course 21W)
- Nuclear Science & Engineering (Course 22)
- Linguistics & Philosophy (Course 24)
- Comparative Media Studies (CMS)
- Engineering Systems Division (ESD)
- Health Sciences & Technology (HST)
- Science, Technology, & Society (STS)
- Women's and Gender Studies Program (WGS)
Interdisciplinary Labs & Centers
- Art, Culture and Technology (ACT)
- Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST)
- Center for Biomedical Engineering (CBE)
- Center for Educational Computing Initiatives (CECI)
- Center for Environmental Health Sciences (CEHS)
- Center for Materials Research in Archaeology and Ethnology (CMRAE)
- Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE)
- Center for Technology, Policy, and Industrial Development (CTPID)
- Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
- Edgerton Center
- Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory (FBML)
- Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN)
- Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS)
- Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP)
- Laboratory for Nuclear Science (LNS)
- Lincoln Laboratory (LL)
- Materials Processing Center (MPC)
- Media Laboratory
- MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI)
- Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL)
- The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI)
- Nuclear Reactor Laboratory (NRL)
- Picower Institute for Learning and Memory (PILM)
- Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC)
- Research Lab for Electronics (RLE)
- Simons Center for the Social Brain (SCSB)
- Teaching and Learning Laboratory (TLL)
Other Programs
- Broad Institute (BR)
- Experimental Study Group (ESG)
- MIT-Singapore University of Technology and Design Collaboration (MIT-SUTD)
- Sea Grant Program
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research (WI)








