- Mary Robinson urges MIT School of Architecture and Planning graduates to “find a way to lead”The former president of Ireland provides wit and wisdom to the graduating Class of 2025 and guests.
- Rationale engineering generates a compact new tool for gene therapyResearchers redesign a compact RNA-guided enzyme from bacteria, making it an efficient editor of human DNA.
- An anomaly detection framework anyone can usePhD student Sarah Alnegheimish wants to make machine learning systems accessible.
- MIT mechanical engineering course invites students to “build with biology”2.797/2.798 (Molecular Cellular and Tissue Biomechanics) explores the intersection of mechanics and biology.
- $20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MITGift from the Leinweber Foundation, in addition to a $5 million commitment from the School of Science, will drive discovery, collaboration, and the next generation of physics leaders.
- Building networks of data science talentThrough collaborations with organizations like BREIT in Peru, the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society is upskilling hundreds of learners around the world in data science and machine learning.
- Shaping the future through systems thinkingAnanda Santos Figueiredo, a senior in climate system science and engineering, is charting her own course of impact.
- A magnetic pull toward materialsMIT senior Maria Aguiar loves everything about materials science — but has a soft spot for garnet thin films, the focus of her undergraduate research.
- New research, data advance understanding of early planetary formationLed by Assistant Professor Richard Teague, a team of international astronomers has released a collection of papers and public data furthering our understanding of planet formation.
- Learning how to predict rare kinds of failuresResearchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.
- Fueling social impact: PKG IDEAS Challenge invests in bold student-led social enterprisesOver nearly a quarter century, the program has invested $1.3 million in 300 ventures in 60 countries for a transformative legacy in social innovation.
- A cool new way to study gravityA technique developed at MIT enables a new class of experiments that could finally let physicists test whether gravity needs to be described by quantum theory.
- MIT students turn vision to realityThe ASA Impact Fund finances unique and impactful projects in Africa.
- The sweet taste of a new ideaSendhil Mullainathan brings a lifetime of unique perspectives to research in behavioral economics and machine learning.
- A day in the life of MIT MBA student David BrownThe former US Army Helicopter pilot co-founded Helix Carbon to erase the carbon footprint of tough-to-decarbonize industries.
- Usha Lee McFarling named director of the Knight Science Journalism ProgramMcFarling, Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and national science correspondent for STAT, was a 1992-93 Knight Science Journalism Fellow.
- 3 Questions: Making the most of limited data to boost pavement performancePostdoc Haoran Li describes how the Concrete Sustainability Hub is enabling accessible, fast, and robust pavement decision-making.
- Deploying a practical solution to space debrisResearchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
- Steven Truong ’20 named 2025 Knight-Hennessy ScholarThe prestigious fellowship, which honors independence of thought, purposeful leadership, and civic mindset, funds graduate studies at Stanford University.
- Duke University Press to join MIT Press’ Direct to Open, publish open-access monographsThe collaboration will begin in 2026, greatly expanding the reach of quality open-access scholarship through D2O.
- MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of WorkWith support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.
- Daily mindfulness practice reduces anxiety for autistic adultsAfter six weeks of practicing mindfulness with the help of a smartphone app, adults with autism reported lasting improvements in their well-being.
