MIT Solve announces 2023 global challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship
MIT Solve, an MIT initiative with a mission to drive innovation to solve world challenges, announced today the 2023 Global Challenges and the Indigenous Communities Fellowship. Solve invites anyone...
View ArticleToward new, computationally designed cybersteels
What do the Apple watch and the Raptor engine of the SpaceX Starship have in common?Answer: Both are made, in part, from advanced materials developed over only a few years — as opposed to the usual...
View ArticleMIT Press announces new initiative to increase the reach of academic scholarship
In keeping with its mission and longstanding commitment to increase access to scholarship, the MIT Press is pleased to announce shift+OPEN. This new initiative is designed to flip existing...
View ArticleMIT efforts support earthquake relief for communities in Turkey and Syria
The catastrophic earthquake that struck Turkey and Syria on Feb. 6 has left more than 41,000 people dead, and many more still not counted under the rubble. More than a million people have been left...
View ArticleFour faculty receive MIT SHASS Research Fund awards for 2023
The annual MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) Research Fund supports research in the Institute's humanities, arts, and social science fields that shows promise of making an...
View ArticleNine from MIT named 2023 Sloan Research Fellows
Nine members of the MIT faculty are among 126 early-career researchers honored across seven fields with 2023 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Representing the departments...
View ArticleMIT Press announces inaugural recipients of the Grant Program for Diverse...
The MIT Press has announced the first recipients of the Grant Program for Diverse Voices. Launched in 2021 to expand funding for authors whose experience and knowledge of diverse communities informs...
View ArticleMIT-led teams win National Science Foundation grants to research sustainable...
Three MIT-led teams are among 16 nationwide to receive funding awards to address sustainable materials for global challenges through the National Science Foundation’s Convergence Accelerator program....
View ArticleFunding to Daniel Anderson’s lab will advance research on new delivery...
Sanofi will provide $25 million over five years to the lab of MIT Professor Daniel Anderson, to support the lab’s efforts to develop next-generation delivery technology for messenger RNA.Anderson, who...
View ArticleMoving perovskite advancements from the lab to the manufacturing floor
The following was issued as a joint announcement from MIT.nano and the MIT Research Laboratory for Electronics; CubicPV; Verde Technologies; Princeton University; and the University of California at...
View ArticleJ-PAL North America announces six new evaluation incubator partners to...
J-PAL North America, a regional office of MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), has announced six new partnerships with government agencies and leading nonprofits through the State and...
View ArticleAdvocating for science budget and policy
A group of 20 MIT students and postdocs from various departments traveled to Washington from March 27-29 to advocate for increased federal funding of scientific research for the 2024 fiscal year. The...
View ArticleMIT’s Center for Constructive Communication takes aim at the destructive...
The MIT Center for Constructive Communication (CCC) and the closely affiliated nonprofit Cortico today announced the launch of a broad-based effort that draws on expertise in face-to-face human...
View ArticleInaugural J-WAFS Grand Challenge aims to develop enhanced crop variants and...
According to MIT’s charter, established in 1861, part of the Institute’s mission is to advance the “development and practical application of science in connection with arts, agriculture, manufactures,...
View ArticleJ-WAFS announces 2023 seed grant recipients
Today, the Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) announced its ninth round of seed grants to support innovative research projects at MIT. The grants are designed to fund research...
View ArticleThree MIT-led projects awarded MURI funding for 2023
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently announced the recipients of its Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards for 2023. This year, MIT Department of Mechanical...
View ArticleNew MIT fellowship supports student research on governance innovation with...
This summer, five MIT graduate students will travel to Mexico, Brazil, Kenya, and Cape Verde as part of a new fellowship to explore how governance innovations are making governments more transparent...
View ArticleInnovators across the world gather at MIT to take their businesses to the...
A new MIT Bootcamp brought 48 experienced and emerging innovators from six continents to campus as they learned how to scale their ventures. The Venture Advancement Program, which ended on May 12, was...
View ArticleMIT PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge grants more than $60,000 to...
Now in its 22nd year, the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center’s IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge has prepared over 200 student-led teams to utilize innovation for social good. In...
View ArticleNovo Nordisk to support MIT postdocs working at the intersection of AI and...
MIT’s School of Engineering and global health care company Novo Nordisk has announced the launch of a multi-year program to support postdoctoral fellows conducting research at the intersection of...
View ArticleMIT-Pillar AI Collective announces first seed grant recipients
The MIT-Pillar AI Collective has announced its first six grant recipients. Students, alumni, and postdocs working on a broad range of topics in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data...
View ArticleMIT researchers to lead a new center for continuous mRNA manufacturing
A three-year research program led by faculty at MIT aims to design the world’s first fully integrated, continuous mRNA manufacturing platform, in an $82 million effort funded by the U.S. Food and Drug...
View ArticleWolfgang Ketterle receives Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship
MIT professor of physics Wolfgang Ketterle was named one of 10 recipients of the 2023 Class of Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowships by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD).Ketterle will use his award of...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence for augmentation and productivity
The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing has awarded seed grants to seven projects that are exploring how artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction can be leveraged to enhance...
View ArticleSupporting sustainability, digital health, and the future of work
The MIT and Accenture Convergence Initiative for Industry and Technology has selected three new research projects that will receive support from the initiative. The research projects aim to accelerate...
View ArticleNew clean air and water labs to bring together researchers, policymakers to...
MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is launching the Clean Air and Water Labs, with support from Community Jameel, to generate evidence-based solutions aimed at increasing access to...
View ArticleFast-tracking fusion energy’s arrival with AI and accessibility
As the impacts of climate change continue to grow, so does interest in fusion’s potential as a clean energy source. While fusion reactions have been studied in laboratories since the 1930s, there are...
View ArticleMIT researchers win grants to develop and test 14 innovative ideas to improve...
The MIT Jameel World Education Lab has awarded $917,526 in Education Innovation Grants to support 14 research projects exploring a range of topics, including electrical engineering, extended reality,...
View ArticleUnlocking global research potential
In today’s interconnected world, fostering global collaboration is essential in addressing complex challenges and advancing scientific progress. The Global Seed Funds (GSF) program at the MIT Center...
View ArticleMIT scholars awarded seed grants to probe the social implications of...
In July, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain of...
View ArticleFive MIT faculty members named 2023 Simons Investigators
Five MIT professors have been selected to receive the 2023 Simons Investigators awards from the Simons Foundation. Virginia Vassilevska Williams and Vinod Vaikuntanathan are both professors in MIT’s...
View ArticleJ-PAL North America and Results for America announce 18 collaborations with...
J-PAL North America and Results for America have announced 18 new partnerships with state and local governments across the country through their Leveraging Evidence and Evaluation for Equitable...
View ArticleAt MIT, used books help enable public service
On a hot September day, members of the MIT community and neighbors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, marked the beginning of the academic year by attending a used book sale in the Kendall/MIT Open Space....
View ArticleMIT receives major National Science Foundation grant for quantum science
The U.S. National Science Foundation’s Physics Frontiers Centers program renewed a grant to the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA) to fundexploring, understanding, and harnessing mysterious...
View ArticleGene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum named Pew Innovation Fund investigators
MIT professors Gene-Wei Li and Michael Birnbaum are among the 12 researchers named 2023 Innovation Fund investigators by The Pew Charitable Trusts.Six pairs of scientists — alumni or advisors of Pew’s...
View ArticleMIT’s Science Policy Initiative holds 13th annual Executive Visit Days
From Oct. 23-24, a delegation consisting of 21 MIT students, one MIT postdoc, and four students from the University of the District of Columbia met in Washington for the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s...
View ArticleShell joins MIT.nano Consortium
MIT.nano has announced that Shell, a global group of energy and petrochemical companies, has joined the MIT.nano Consortium.“With an international perspective on the world’s energy challenges, Shell is...
View ArticleMIT, Applied Materials, and the Northeast Microelectronics Coalition Hub to...
The following is a joint announcement from MIT and Applied Materials, Inc.MIT and Applied Materials, Inc., announced an agreement today that, together with a grant to MIT from the Northeast...
View ArticleNew MIT.nano equipment to accelerate innovation in “tough tech” sectors
A new set of advanced nanofabrication equipment will make MIT.nano one of the world’s most advanced research facilities in microelectronics and related technologies, unlocking new opportunities for...
View ArticleMIT Press’s Direct to Open opens access to full list of 2024 monographs
Now in its third year of operation, the MIT Press' Direct to Open(D2O) recently announced that it reached its full funding goal in 2024 and will open access to 79 new monographs and edited book...
View ArticleMIT-led team receives funding to pursue new treatments for metabolic disease
A team of MIT researchers will lead a $65.67 million effort, awarded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), to develop ingestible devices that may one day be used to treat...
View ArticleA passion for innovation and education
Imagine you were planning a trek across Death Valley. Would you be better off setting out on foot with just a bottle of water in your hand, or in a vehicle loaded with supplies and a full tank of...
View ArticleMIT Solve announces 2024 Global Challenges and Indigenous Communities Fellowship
The driving mission of MIT Solve is inviting new voices and proposed solutions to world problems as a way to achieve a more sustainable and equitable future for all. To that end, Solve recently...
View ArticleGenerative AI for smart grid modeling
MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) has been awarded $1,365,000 in funding from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) to support its involvement with an innovative project,...
View ArticleEight from MIT named 2024 Sloan Research Fellows
Eight members of the MIT faculty are among 126 early-career researchers honored with 2024 Sloan Research Fellowships by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Representing the departments of Chemistry,...
View ArticleFive MIT faculty members take on Cancer Grand Challenges
Cancer Grand Challenges recently announced five winning teams for 2024, which included five researchers from MIT: Michael Birnbaum, Regina Barzilay, Brandon DeKosky, Seychelle Vos, and Ömer Yilmaz....
View ArticleSecond round of seed grants awarded to MIT scholars studying the impact and...
Last summer, MIT President Sally Kornbluth and Provost Cynthia Barnhart issued a call for papers to “articulate effective roadmaps, policy recommendations, and calls for action across the broad domain...
View ArticleExtracting hydrogen from rocks
It’s commonly thought that the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen, exists mainly alongside other elements — with oxygen in water, for example, and with carbon in methane. But naturally...
View ArticleQ&A: Claire Walsh on how J-PAL’s King Climate Action Initiative tackles the...
The King Climate Action Initiative (K-CAI) is the flagship climate change program of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), which innovates, tests, and scales solutions at the nexus of...
View ArticleAdvancing technology for aquaculture
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, aquaculture in the United States represents a $1.5 billion industry annually. Like land-based farming, shellfish aquaculture requires...
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