Seth Lloyd, leading quantum mechanics expert, appointed Nam P. Suh Professor
New professorship is a gift from MIT alumnus Hock Tan '75, SM '75.
Smart home heating and cooling
Alumnus uses radar expertise to design automated air-control system for homes.
Unveiling a maritime legacy
New MIT Museum exhibit to explore life and career of influential ship designer and alumnus Nathaniel Greene Herreshoff.
MIT community: #ILookLikeanEngineer
MIT alumni, staff, faculty, and students enthusiastically join a social media campaign supporting diversity in engineering.
Beauty business based on MIT bioengineering
Living Proof, a hair care corporation based on research emerging from the Langer Lab at MIT, has won 80 awards and counting.
Making the new silicon
Gallium nitride electronics could drastically cut energy usage in data centers, consumer devices.
Public Service Center Fellowships program turns 25
For a quarter-century, public service fellowships have inspired MIT students to work with community partners for the betterment of humankind.
Tiny houses could help mitigate a big problem: homelessness
Urban planner Cate Mingoya analyzes the benefits and challenges of tiny house villages.
How do you hack health care?
With MIT Hacking Medicine, brilliant minds converge at MIT to contribute to design thinking for health care.
Faculty highlight: Elsa Olivetti
Assistant Professor Elsa Olivetti combines cost and environmental data to identify high-impact areas for reducing pollution and greenhouse gases.
Toward cheaper water treatment
MIT spinout makes treating, recycling highly contaminated oilfield water more economical
Energy synergy: MIT ignites CERAWeek
MIT representatives shared emerging energy technologies at an influential conference rife with world leaders.
Alumnus Hock Tan pledges $4 million gift for endowed chair in MechE
New professorship to be named in honor of Professor Emeritus Nam P. Suh