Chemistry

J-WAFS' 2015 grantees present their ongoing research at the poster session of the J-WAFS Food and Water Conference, held April 27-28 at MIT.

J-WAFS awards $1.3 million in second round of seed grant funding

Principal investigators will receive grants of up to $100,000 per year for up to two years for innovative research on food and water challenges.

May 18, 2016

Graduate student poster winners were: (l-r) Chen Gu, Rong Zhu, and Anthony Soltis, as well as Joseph Azzarelli (not pictured).

Center for Environmental Health Sciences selects 2016 poster winners

Annual poster session showcases recent work on biological effects of exposure to environmental agents.

May 17, 2016

Four MIT professors elected to the American Philosophical Society

May 13, 2016

Colette Heald describes her current work as “trying to understand the sources, transformation, and impact of gases and particles in the atmosphere, which is very dynamic with a lot of chemical compounds that interact.”

There’s something in the air

Colette Heald studies atmospheric gases and particles, and how they affect air quality and climate.

April 28, 2016

Five with MIT ties are among 30 winners nationwide of the 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Clockwise from top left: Eran Hodis, Lindsey Osimiri ’14, Vishwajith Sridharan, Abubakar Abid ’15, and Suan Lian Tuang ’14.

Five from MIT win 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Awards fund graduate studies for immigrants and children of immigrants.

April 27, 2016

MIT Energy Initiative awards nine seed fund grants for early-stage energy research

Winning teams will use grants to advance research in areas including fuel cells, solar-powered desalination, and impacts of electric vehicle charging on the power grid.

April 25, 2016

Mircea Dincă wins National Science Foundation's Alan T. Waterman Award

Chemistry professor receives the NSF's highest honor for an outstanding researcher under the age of 35.

April 21, 2016

“I learned that MIT is a place that gives you the resources, and if you want to use them, you'll make something very beautiful and positively productive,” Juan Jaramillo says. “So I applied and fortunately I got in early. It was a dream come true.”

Combining curiosity with a desire to help

Senior Juan Jaramillo harnesses his natural curiosity to help others, while never forgetting his roots.

April 20, 2016

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2016

MIT ranked within the top 5 globally for 19 of 42 subject areas.

April 8, 2016

April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus

Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future event offers a playful introduction to research at MIT.

April 5, 2016

This device built by MIT researchers can be reconfigured to manufacture several different types of pharmaceuticals.

Pharmacy on demand

New, portable system can be configured to produce different drugs.

March 31, 2016

School of Science honors staff with 2016 Infinite Mile Awards

March 28, 2016

MIT's Killian Court, with Great Dome in the background

Eleven MIT researchers win Sloan Research Fellowships

Faculty from eight MIT science and engineering departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.

February 23, 2016

Professor Robert Griffin, head of the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory

Robert Griffin receives the ACS E. Bright Wilson Award

Professor of chemistry and head of the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory honored for his pioneering contributions to the field of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

February 19, 2016

An artist’s rendition of DNA entering bacteria.

Breaking through the bacteria barrier

New microfluidic device may speed up DNA insertion in bacteria, the first step in genetic engineering.