Alice Dragoon

To celebrate Pi Day this year, Admissions Blogger Ellie Feng ’28 organized a celebration of the Institute in pastry form, resulting in the baking of 30 MIT-themed pies.

Sally Kornbluth reflects on her first few months as MIT’s 18th president.

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.

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.

The MIT administration has committed to negotiate in good faith.

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.

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…

Students who sign up for MIT’s introductory mechanical engineering class 2.00b are in for a semester of incredible rigor but also incredible fun. And not just because they’re designing toys. Like Plato, mechanical engineering professor David Wallace, SM ’91, PhD ’95, also the mastermind behind the epic product design class known as 2.009, believes effective…

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…