Rhea Vedro brings community wishes to life in Boston sculpture

The MIT lecturer and artist-in-residence transformed hundreds of inscribed and hammered steel plates into “Amulet,” a soaring public artwork at City Hall Plaza.

“MIT Open Learning has opened doors I never imagined possible”

Munip Utama applies knowledge from the MITx MicroMasters Program in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy to his efforts supporting disadvantaged students in Indonesia.

MIT engineers design structures that compute with heat

By leveraging excess heat instead of electricity, microscopic silicon structures could enable more energy-efficient thermal sensing and signal processing.

Keeril Makan named vice provost for the arts

An acclaimed composer and longtime MIT faculty member, Makan will direct the next act in MIT’s story of artistic leadership.

Study: The infant universe’s “primordial soup” was actually soupy

MIT physicists observed the first clear evidence that quarks create a wake as they speed through quark-gluon plasma, confirming the plasma behaves like a liquid.

Welcome to the “most wicked” apprentice program on campus

With a focus on metallurgy and fabrication, Pappalardo Apprentices assist their peers with machining, hand-tool use, brainstorming, and more, while expanding their own skills.

Expanding educational access in Massachusetts prisons

Recent summit at MIT brought together educators, policymakers, and community partners, featuring resilience expert Shaka Senghor on transforming lives through learning and redefining pathways to freedom.

Bryan Bryson: Engineering solutions to the tough problem of tuberculosis

By analyzing how Myobacterium tuberculosis interacts with the immune system, the associate professor hopes to find new vaccine targets to help eliminate the disease.

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

MIT physicist shares 400,000-euro award for influential work on “magic-angle” graphene.

Cancer’s secret safety net

Researchers uncover a hidden mechanism that allows cancer to develop aggressive mutations.