The courage to dissent | MIT News

For graduate student Amanda Rothschild, political science meets personal history in her studies of how the United States responds to genocide.

Sarah C. Baldwin | Department of Political Science • mit
Nov. 17, 2016 ~6 min

Electric motors find new roles in robots, ships, cars, and microgrids | MIT News

James Kirtley discusses the transition from gas to electric motors and the impact these motors have had on modern technologies.

Eric Brown | MIT Industrial Liaison Program • mit
Oct. 24, 2016 ~10 min


Cambridge Cyber Summit convenes industry, academia, and government | MIT News

Hosted by CSAIL, event featured discussions on cybersecurity with tech leaders and officials from the NSA and FBI.

CSAIL • mit
Oct. 12, 2016 ~4 min

Analyzing the 2016 election: Insights from 12 MIT scholars | MIT News

Experts from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences weigh in on topics from polling to rhetoric to individual campaign issues.

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences • mit
Oct. 12, 2016 ~7 min

Turning particle detectors into weapons detectors | MIT News

Nuclear science and engineering PhD student Jayson Vavrek applies particle physics to solve problems with nuclear weapons disarmament.

Elizabeth Dougherty | Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering • mit
Sept. 26, 2016 ~5 min

A novel approach to a longstanding challenge in nuclear arms control | MIT News

MIT researchers develop a “physical cryptography” for secure and accurate accounting of the world’s nuclear arsenals.

Meg Murphy | School of Engineering • mit
July 19, 2016 ~7 min

Wireless, wearable toxic-gas detector | MIT News

Inexpensive sensors could be worn by soldiers to detect hazardous chemical agents.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
June 30, 2016 ~7 min

Improved threat-detection | MIT News

Scanners more rapidly and accurately identify radioactive materials at U.S. borders, events.

Rob Matheson | MIT News Office • mit
June 22, 2016 ~10 min


George W. Rathjens, professor emeritus of political science, dies at 90 | MIT News

MIT professor contributed to theory and practice of nuclear arms control and established the MIT Security Studies Program.

MIT Political Science • mit
June 10, 2016 ~4 min

MIT political scientist awarded prestigious Carnegie fellowship | MIT News

Taylor Fravel will examine Asia’s maritime conflicts in further depth.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office • mit
April 19, 2016 ~4 min

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