April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus
When MIT moved from Boston to Cambridge in 1916, it built a new campus designed to foster collaboration across disparate disciplines. As the Institute celebrates...
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Camilo Ruiz named 2016 Gates Cambridge Scholar
Camilo Ruiz, an MIT senior majoring in biological engineering, is one of 35 American students to be awarded this year’s competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship. Ruiz...
Reprogramming gut bacteria as “living therapeutics”
An MIT spinout, Synlogic, is aiming to create a new class of medicines, by re-programming bacteria found in the gut as “living therapeutics.” Based on...
Feng Zhang receives 2016 Canada Gairdner International Award
Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and W. M. Keck...
Toward a better understanding of the brain
In 2011, about a month after joining the MIT faculty, Feng Zhang attended a talk by Harvard Medical School Professor Michael Gilmore, who studies the...
Refining optogenetic methods to map synaptic connections in the brain
A fundamental question in neuroscience is how neuronal networks and circuits give rise to brain function, as disruptions in these connections can lead to mental...
An ace on the court and in the lab
MIT senior Ava Soleimany knows the value of determination in the lab, and on the tennis court. The major in course 6-7 (Computer Science and...
Biobarrier explorer and dark matter theorist win MIT’s prestigious junior faculty award
Jesse Thaler, associate professor in the Department of Physics, and Katharina Ribbeck, the Eugene Bell Career Development Professor of Tissue Engineering in the Department of...
James Collins appointed 2016 Allen Distinguished Investigator
James Collins, the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering and Science at the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, professor of biological engineering at MIT,...
Five from MIT win 2016 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
The Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans, the premier graduate school fellowship for immigrants and children of immigrants, has announced their 2016 recipients....
Microbiome genes on the move
The word “culture” typically refers to a group’s shared heritage — such as its customs, cuisine, music, and language — that connects people in unique...
Michael Mitchell wins Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Award at the Scientific Interface
Michael J. Mitchell, a National Institutes of Health Ruth L. Kirschstein postdoc in the lab of Robert Langer at the Koch Institute for Cancer Research...
Mapping molecular neighborhoods
At first glance, it seems counterintuitive. To learn more about how cells go awry causing disease, it seems logical to focus on the minutiae of...
Feng Zhang named 2016 Tang Prize laureate
Feng Zhang, a core institute member of the Broad Institute, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and the W. M....
Department of Mechanical Engineering wins New England Emmy Award for “Hope Regenerated”
The MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering (MechE) multimedia team has been recognized with a New England Emmy Award in the category of Health / Science...
