- Chancellor Melissa Nobles’ address to MIT’s undergraduate Class of 2025Nobles urged graduates to be “bold and imaginative” in tackling big problems, “and to do so with compassion and generosity.”
- 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.
- Sally Kornbluth’s charge to the Class of 2025MIT’s president urges graduates to become ambassadors for scientific thinking and discovery.
- Hank Green urges the Class of 2025 to work on “everyday solvable problems of normal people”Lively Commencement ceremony gives students, family, and friends a chance to celebrate years of hard work by the Institute’s newest graduates.
- Commencement address by Hank Green“Do not forget how special and bizarre it is to get to live a human life,” the science communicator and video creator told the Class of 2025.
- MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, three life membersThe term members will serve between three and five years on MIT’s board of trustees.
- 3 Questions: Hank Green on science, communication, and curiosity“There’s no better use of a day than learning something new,” Green reflected before delivering MIT’s 2025 Commencement address.
- 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.
- A high-fat diet sets off metabolic dysfunction in cells, leading to weight gainResearchers also found these effects can be reversed by treatment with an antioxidant.
- $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.
- MIT D-Lab students design global energy solutions through collaborationEach year, two longstanding D-Lab courses make their mark on students and communities around the world.
- New fuel cell could enable electric aviationThese devices could pack three times as much energy per pound as today’s best EV batteries, offering a lightweight option for powering trucks, planes, or ships.
- Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacityMIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.
- The proud history and promising future of MIT’s work on manufacturingMIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing extends a deep Institute legacy of expanding US growth and jobs through industrial production.
- MIT announces the Initiative for New ManufacturingThe Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.
- Why are some rocks on the moon highly magnetic? MIT scientists may have an answerA large impact could have briefly amplified the moon’s weak magnetic field, creating a momentary spike that was recorded in some lunar rocks.
- 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.
- A new approach could fractionate crude oil using much less energyMIT researchers’ new membrane separates different types of fuel based on their molecular size, eliminating the need for energy-intensive crude oil distillation.
- MIT physicists discover a new type of superconductor that’s also a magnetThe “one-of-a-kind” phenomenon was observed in ordinary graphite.
