3Q: Update on MIT staff member facing deportation

MIT is working with attorneys on behalf of Francisco Rodriguez.

Pushing the limits of athletic performance

MIT 3-Sigma Sports links students and researchers with industry partners to solve the greatest engineering problems in sports.

MIT’s Solve initiative seeks solutions to its 2017 global challenges

Applications for problem-solvers interested in four new areas are due August 1.

A rose by any other name would smell as yeast

Emily Havens Greenhagen ’05 leads a team of scientists brewing perfume from yeast.

Scene at MIT: Friendly furniture

Carl Garland, professor emeritus of chemistry, dies at 87

Physical chemist and MIT professor for over 40 years was “part of a golden age of physical chemistry at MIT.”

CBS This Morning’s Dana Jacobson explores how MIT researchers are developing technology to enable robots to assist with disaster response, including a robotic cheetah and a system that 3-D prints robots. Prof. Russ Tedrake says that, “there's a natural transition from the robots in the labs now into the robots doing meaningful work.”

Prof. Lawrence Vale writes for Slate that proposed cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s funding could worsen the public housing crisis in the U.S. Vale writes that the American public housing system, “suffers from a toxic convergence of long-deferred maintenance, squeezed budgets and cost-cutting measures.”

Preston County News & Journal reporter Theresa Marthey writes that students from Preston County, West Virginia are working on code to move SPHERES satellites on the International Space Station as part of the Zero Robotics program. Instructor Amanda Rehe explains that, “students have direct access with students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to use as a resource and assist with coding help.”

Writing for CNBC, Ali Montag highlights MIT’s MicroMasters programs and how they offer students around the world a new path to a graduate degree. Montag notes that passing students from the MicroMasters in data, economics and development policy, “are eligible to apply for a master's program on campus at MIT.”

Bitcoin study: Period of exclusivity encourages early adopters

Delaying access for the tech-savvy can stifle spread of new products, experiment with MIT students shows.

Miniaturizing the brain of a drone

Method for designing efficient computer chips may get miniature smart drones off the ground.

Microscopy technique could enable more informative biopsies

Expanding tissue samples before imaging offers detailed information about disease.