Students who expect to complete an SM or MEng degree in June 2015 are invited to apply for the $5,000 Marvin E. Goody Award. The thesis proposal must address at least one of these stated aims:extending […]
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Students who expect to complete an SM or MEng degree in June 2015 are invited to apply for the $5,000 Marvin E. Goody Award. The thesis proposal must address at least one of these stated aims:extending […]
By 2030, air pollution will become the leading environmental cause of premature mortality. On November 7, Professor Colette Heald will discuss some of the key challenges and uncertainties in estimating exposure to atmosphere particulate matter, a […]
Doctoral candidate Zeid Alghareeb, who works with Professor John Williams in the MIT Geospatial Data Center, has received the 2014 Dr. Mikio Shoji Award for Innovation in Information Technology. The award is named for Mikio Shoji, […]
Work recently began for a permanent memorial to honor MIT police officer Sean Collier, who was killed on campus while serving the MIT community in April 2013, Professor John Ochsendorf and his Masonry Research Group have […]
Noor Khouri, a senior and a UROP in Professor Pedro Reis’s research group, presented a talk at NEW.Mech (New England Workshop on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures) on October 18 at UMass Amherst. NEW.Mech is […]
Graphene’s exceptional mechanical and electronic properties make it a perfect candidate for applications such as flexible electronics and supercapacitors for energy storage, but its single-atom thickness also means it wrinkles easily, which could affect its ability […]
As chair of the Committee on the MIT Climate Change Conversation, Professor Roman Stocker recently summarized the committee’s charge, its progress to date, and its next steps. “The premise of the committee is that the complexity […]
The Spektrum TV channel in Hungary recently interviewed Professor Marta Gonzalez for a documentary about Albert-Laszlo Barabasi’s book, Bursts: The Hidden Patterns Behind Everything We do, from your E-mail to Bloody Crusades. For the segment about […]
At freshman pre-orientation(FPOP)in August, Course 1 hosted a group of 20 new students interested in the department. Led by undergraduates Beth Garcia and Julia Hogroian and assisted by several excellent undergraduate mentors, the week’s activities blended […]
The 550,000 miles of undersea fiber-optic cables that transmit e-mail and other data around the world are typically unfurled from large spools on ships. A rip or tangle anywhere can lead to transmission glitches and data […]
Professor Marta Gonzalez recently spoke in Lucca, Italy in conjunction with ECCS ’14 (the European Conference on Complex Systems), a major international gathering devoted to complex systems and interdisciplinary science. She presented two papers on the […]
At MIT, hackathons – the idea of bringing people in with a myriad of backgrounds and expertise together to creatively solve problems and innovate – is implicit in our culture as an institution. Sustainability and environmental […]
In the creativity and innovation of the chefs at Mugaritz, one of the world’s top restaurants, Professor Pedro Reis recognized a strong resemblance to research in the EGS.Lab (Elasticity, Geometry & Statistics Laboratory). The EGS.Lab works […]
Cephalopods such as octopuses and squid can quickly change both the color and texture of their skin to blend into their surroundings, a capability that engineers have long struggled to duplicate in synthetic materials. In a […]
On August 2, CEE’s Innovation@ONE Boot Camp and Business Plan Pitch Breakfast brought together eight teams of students and postdocs who presented business ideas to a panel of successful entrepreneurs. The new company concepts ranged from […]