New MIT report details benefits of investment in basic research
Authors highlight 15 research opportunities that could help boost the U.S. economy, benefit society.
Interdisciplinary medicine
Senior Yiping Xing’s view of health care draws upon research, public health, and policy.
Report details steps needed to accelerate innovation at MIT
New Innovation Initiative aims to reshape the role of the university in the 21st-century economy.
Hacking health care
PhD student Andrea Ippolito improves health care through engineering, entrepreneurship, and systems design.
Dresselhaus and Solow win Presidential Medal of Freedom
Two Institute Professors are among 19 new recipients of the nation’s highest civilian honor.
Will the new industrial city work?
At MIT symposium, promise of advanced manufacturing suggests new ways to reshape urban space.
Reif briefs Obama in White House forum on the innovation economy
Advanced Manufacturing Partnership 2.0 delivers report on developing innovation-based growth.
MIT’s Ernest J. Moniz nominated Secretary of Energy
President Obama’s pick is head of the MIT Energy Initiative and a former undersecretary of energy.
Science school for judges
MIT and the Broad Institute open their doors to the judicial community for a workshop at the intersection of science and the law.
Lindquist receives National Medal of Science
President Obama presents nation’s top science awards at White House ceremony Wednesday.
3 Questions: Walt Henry
Facilities engineer discusses how MIT is leading the way for universities to practice what they preach on energy efficiency.
Susan Lindquist wins National Medal of Science
The Whitehead Institute member and MIT biology professor is one of 10 chosen to receive the top U.S. science honor.
Letter to the community regarding President Barack Obama's visit
President will deliver address on America's leadership on clean energy
Two from MIT elected to the Institute of Medicine
Professor of Economics Amy Finkelstein and Tyler Jacks, director of the Koch Institute, join arm of the National Academies of Science.