How architects turned a hulking brick box into MIT’s newest academic hub
MIT Newsby Peter Dizikes | MIT News·4 Sept 2026
It started with a vision: Move MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) into the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, an unoccupied, fortress-like brick building on MIT’s campus in Cambridge...
Stories from the steel mills: A model for sharing workers’ histories
MIT Newsby Peter Dizikes | MIT News·4 Sept 2026
For generations, the steel mills of Southeast Chicago offered work and a way of life, experienced by tens of thousands of families.
New method allows scientists to follow gene activity over time in the same cells
MIT Newsby Leah Eisenstadt | Broad Institute·4 Sept 2026
The following press release was issued Sept. 1 by the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In recent years, scientists have built methods to measure a cell’s transcriptome, or all the RNA produced...
Faculty receive promotions in the School of Architecture and Planning for 2026
MIT Newsby Maria Iacobo | School of Architecture and Planning·3 Sept 2026
The MIT School of Architecture and Planning recognized 11 faculty members with promotions for their significant contributions to the school, effective July 1, 2026.
3 Questions: The essential role of international engagement
MIT Newsby Office of the Vice Provost for International Activities·3 Sept 2026
Vice Provost for International Activities Duane Boning oversees MIT’s international policies and engagements.
Assistant Professor Thomas Rose, an expert in archaeometallurgy, dies at 37
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News·3 Sept 2026
MIT Assistant Professor Thomas Rose, an expert in ancient metallurgy, passed away on Sept. 2 due to injuries sustained during a bicycle accident in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Giving farmers a more sustainable way to protect crops
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News·3 Sept 2026
Each year, farmers around the world spend $80 billion on pesticides for their crops. Those pesticides impact not only harmful insects but also bees and beneficial bacteria in the soil.
New qubit architecture enables faster, more accurate operations
MIT Newsby Adam Zewe | MIT News·3 Sept 2026
Researchers from MIT have designed a new qubit architecture that enables qubits to interact with each other much more quickly while remaining very stable.
From MIT to IBM, expediting AI and quantum deployment
MIT Newsby Lauren Hinkel | MIT-IBM Computing Research Lab·2 Sept 2026
The experience of transitioning from research based in theory to focusing on real-world application can vary significantly for different researchers.
New research shows a neutrino laser is impossible
MIT Newsby Jennifer Chu | MIT News·2 Sept 2026
Neutrinos are the pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars, and our bodies by the trillions each second.
Walter Torous named executive director of MIT Center for Real Estate
MIT Newsby Denise Brehm | MIT Center for Real Estate | Department of Urban Studies and Planning·1 Sept 2026
Walter Torous, senior lecturer in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and director of the Master of Science in Real Estate Development...
Cognition and consciousness arise from analog computations, says new theory
MIT Newsby David Orenstein | The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory·1 Sept 2026
A new theory, published in The Journal of Neuroscience by three scientists in The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT, offers an explanation of how the brain produces cognition and...
Ila Kumar: Innovating with communities
MIT Newsby Gitana Savage | MIT News correspondent·1 Sept 2026
Before Ila Kumar thinks about how to build technology, she asks a different question: What is the context that technology will operate in, and who needs to be involved in the design?
Translating economic growth into better lives
MIT Newsby Benjamin Daniel | School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences·31 Aug 2026
Solving complex social problems with multiple interrelated causes can involve juggling a variety of factors.
Gulfstream IV makes its long-awaited return to Lincoln Laboratory
MIT Newsby Kailen Comeau | Ariana Gaines | MIT Lincoln Laboratory·31 Aug 2026
After extensive modifications over the past seven years, the Gulfstream IV (G-IV) aircraft operated and maintained by MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Tactical Defense Systems Group and Flight Test...
At MIT convocation, a warm welcome for the Class of 2030
MIT Newsby Peter Dizikes | MIT News·31 Aug 2026
MIT President Sally Kornbluth formally welcomed the undergraduate Class of 2030 to campus on Sunday, noting that the Institute quickly “feels like home” to new students.
How an MIT research project became a global programming language
MIT Newsby Zach Winn | MIT News·31 Aug 2026
It all started with some exasperated emails. Back in 2009, a group of researchers began venting their frustration with the programming languages designed to help scientists and other researchers...
How an MIT graduate student helped a team of young scientists test their experiment at CERN
MIT Newsby Ana Georgescu | Laboratory for Nuclear Science·28 Aug 2026
This past spring, MIT physics graduate student Manu Srivastava opened an email from a group of high school students in India he had never met.
How MIT Sandbox has turned student ideas into $8.7 billion in global impact
MIT Newsby Michaela Jarvis | MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program·28 Aug 2026
Although Jacob Becraft had two swings and two misses when he first tried to become an entrepreneur as a graduate student, the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program allowed him to keep at it.
Gage Coon: An Earth scientist exploring the power of microbes
MIT Newsby Gitana Savage | MIT News correspondent·28 Aug 2026
Growing up in Waverly, Tennessee, Gage Coon spent much of his childhood outside. His family had everything from chickens to horses and even an emu named Big Bird.
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