Alice Dragoon

Dogs have their day in the pool at MIT.

Inspired by cell membranes and Kevlar vests, Ty Christoff-Tempesta, PhD ’22, invented a nanomaterial that can be used to clean contaminated water and create recyclable plastics.

Grad student Joanna Millstein is tackling big questions about glacier dynamics that will help us understand how the changing—and in some cases disappearing—ice sheets will affect the planet.

A half-century ago, Virginia Tower Norwood ’47 invented the first multispectral scanner to image Earth from space. Landsat 1 and its successors have been scanning the planet continuously ever since.

Undergrads are now living in MIT’s new dorm on Vassar Street.

In December, MIT Medical front-line workers became the first members of the MIT community to receive the covid-19 vaccine.

In 8.13 and 8.14, the 18-credit-hour classes known as Physics Junior Lab, students are introduced to experimental physics by replicating classic early-20th-century discoveries in such things as special relativity, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics. The labs involve a lot of finessing of equipment, connecting of cables, and twiddling of knobs—not the sort of thing you…

Jim Bales, PhD ’91, is a firm believer that electronics can be fun. So while most introductory electronics courses focus on analysis, Bales, the associate director of the Edgerton Center, designed the elective seminar 6.070 (Electronics Project Lab) to give students a chance to dive right into making circuits—and develop an intuition for what they…

As Purell stations were being installed across campus in early March, 2.007 lab instructors were checking in with their students about what they hoped to get out of the robotics-centered Design and Manufacturing I class if they couldn’t continue meeting on campus. What they heard over and over was that not getting to build their…

A six-story building designed to the “Passive House” standard just went up in Cambridge. Architect Michelle Apigian, MA ’00, MCP ’00, gives us a tour and explains why it’s so energy efficient

A look into what it would take to make MIT Technology Review more environmentally friendly.

A victor is crowned in MIT’s annual robot competition.

The MIT professor who helped pioneer nanoscience and launched a new field of energy research.

The eastern edge of campus has come a long way since the 1960s.

By asking that simple question for more than five decades, Institute Professor Millie Dresselhaus has pioneered nanoscience, launched a new field of energy research, and helped women find their place at MIT.

Carlos Prieto ’58 abandoned a promising business career to pursue a life in music.

Never built, it launched high-speed computing.