- Mishael Quraishi named 2025 Churchill ScholarThe MIT senior will pursue a master’s program at Cambridge University in the UK.
- Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career AwardsFaculty members and additional MIT alumni are among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential.
- Mishael Quraishi named 2025 Churchill ScholarThe MIT senior will pursue a master’s program at Cambridge University in the UK.
- Eleven MIT faculty receive Presidential Early Career AwardsFaculty members and additional MIT alumni are among 400 scientists and engineers recognized for outstanding leadership potential.
- Introducing the MIT Generative AI Impact ConsortiumThe consortium will bring researchers and industry together to focus on impact.
- David Darmofal SM ’91, PhD ’93 named vice chancellor for undergraduate and graduate educationLongtime AeroAstro professor brings deep experience with academic and student life.
- User-friendly system can help developers build more efficient simulations and AI modelsBy automatically generating code that leverages two types of data redundancy, the system saves bandwidth, memory, and computation.
- With generative AI, MIT chemists quickly calculate 3D genomic structuresA new approach, which takes minutes rather than days, predicts how a specific DNA sequence will arrange itself in the cell nucleus.
- MIT engineers help multirobot systems stay in the safety zoneNew research could improve the safety of drone shows, warehouse robots, and self-driving cars.
- From bench to bedside, and beyondIn the United States and abroad, Matthew Dolan ’81 has served as a leader in immunology and virology.
- MIT spinout Gradiant reduces companies’ water use and waste by billions of gallons each dayThe company builds water recycling, treatment, and purification solutions for some of the world’s largest brands.
- Rare and mysterious cosmic explosion: Gamma-ray burst or jetted tidal disruption event?Researchers characterize the peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP240408a.
- Evelina Fedorenko receives Troland Award from National Academy of SciencesCognitive neuroscientist is recognized for her groundbreaking discoveries about the brain’s language system.
- 3 Questions: Modeling adversarial intelligence to exploit AI’s security vulnerabilitiesMIT CSAIL Principal Research Scientist Una-May O’Reilly discusses how she develops agents that reveal AI models’ security weaknesses before hackers do.
- MIT students' works redefine human-AI collaborationProjects from MIT course 4.043/4.044 (Interaction Intelligence) were presented at NeurIPS, showing how AI transforms creativity, education, and interaction in unexpected ways.
- Smart carbon dioxide removal yields economic and environmental benefitsMIT study finds a diversified portfolio of carbon dioxide removal options delivers the best return on investment.
- New training approach could help AI agents perform better in uncertain conditionsSometimes, it might be better to train a robot in an environment that’s different from the one where it will be deployed.
- MIT Climate and Energy Ventures class spins out entrepreneurs — and successful companiesThe course challenges students to commercialize technologies and ideas in one whirlwind semester. Alumni of the class have founded more than 150 companies.
- Expanding robot perceptionAssociate Professor Luca Carlone is working to give robots a more human-like awareness of their environment.
- MIT Press’ Direct to Open opens access to over 80 new monographsSupport for D2O in 2025 includes two new three-year, all-consortium commitments from the Florida Virtual Campus and the Big Ten Academic Alliance.
- Professor Emeritus Gerald Schneider, discoverer of the “two visual systems,” dies at 84An MIT affiliate for some 60 years, Schneider was an authority on the relationships between brain structure and behavior.
- How good old mud can lower building costsBuilders pour concrete into temporary molds called formwork. MIT researchers invented a way to make these structures out of on-site soil.
