Five from MIT return to US following travel ban

No community members are known to remain abroad under President Trump’s executive order.

West Garage site identified for new undergraduate residence hall

Centrally located dorm will enhance student life and learning experience, vibrancy of West Campus.

Rocket woman

An LA-area alumna is on board for the new space race.

Featured video: "I grew up in Damascus"

Driven to help others, an international MIT student is making a positive mark on the world.

Professor Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin SM ’98 named to National Inventors Hall of Fame

Akamai founders honored for applying algorithms to solve web congestion.

Before she even graduates from MIT, senior Tiera Guinn is working for NASA’s Space Launch System, writes Zahara Hill of The Huffington Post. Guinn, who designs and analyzes parts for the rocket that will transport people to Mars, advises young girls with similar aspirations to “look forward to your dream and you can’t let anybody get in the way of it.”

Graviky Labs, co-founded by Media Lab alum Anirudh Sharma, is creating soot traps for exhaust pipes that can capture carbon emissions and turn the pollutants into inks. Known as Kaalink, the product “can collect enough carbon to produce one fluid ounce of ink, enough to fill a pen, in about 45 minutes,” writes Liz Stinson for Wired.

MIT’s Green Building was lit up with a blue “5” after the Patriot’s fifth Super Bowl win, reports Jaclyn Reiss of The Boston Globe.

Engineers harness stomach acid to power tiny sensors

Ingestible electronic devices could monitor physiological conditions or deliver drugs.

Optimizing code

Modifying the “middle end” of a popular compiler yields more-efficient parallel programs.

Toward all-solid lithium batteries

Researchers investigate mechanics of lithium sulfides, which show promise as solid electrolytes.