Krishna Rajagopal named dean for digital learning

New position expands leadership roles for faculty in the Office of the Vice President for Open Learning.

Maryann Gong earns second-straight Division III Academic All-America of the Year Award

Computer science major is the first Division III student-athlete to earn the honor in back-to-back years and just the second overall in the NCAA.

Lessons from pre-industrial climate control

Graduate student Alpha Yacob Arsano wants to bring natural ventilation to the forefront of modern architecture.

Featured video: A self-driving wheelchair

Autonomous wheelchair developed by researchers at MIT and in Singapore promises improved independence for the disabled.

Spreading kindness far and wide

Senior Bettina Arkhurst, founder of Random Acts of Kindness Week, is making a better world at MIT.

FOX 25 reporter Bob Dumas features a dance-party lamp developed by MIT researchers aimed at getting girls interested in STEM fields. “There’s research that shows girls, around middle school age, their participation in STEM classes and curriculum starts to drop off," explains Prof. Maria Yang. She adds that she wants to, "get girls back on the STEM train by engaging their interests.”

In this Bloomberg TV video aired during the July 4th Spectacular, Profs. Sangeeta Bhatia and Robert Langer discuss the Greater Boston area’s prowess in medical research. Langer explains that for his research, which is focused on inventing, “new things in chemical engineering that can change people’s lives in medicine, there is no better place.”

Mercury News reporter Jasmine Leyva highlights how students in Campbell, California are participating in the Zero Robotics program, which “aims to take students’ work to the moon and beyond, all while teaching students about space exploration, computer science and coding.” The Zero Robotics program is led by the MIT Space Systems Lab, Innovation Learning Center and Aurora Flight Sciences.

Bringing neural networks to cellphones

Method for modeling neural networks’ power consumption could help make the systems portable.

Ingestible drug-delivery materials may help patients comply with treatment regimens

Hydrogel-based capsules could expand and reside in the GI tract for days, slowly releasing medication.

Artificial intelligence suggests recipes based on food photos

Given a still image of a dish filled with food, CSAIL team's deep-learning algorithm recommends ingredients and recipes.