Tata Center adds eight new projects to its 2018-2019 portfolio | MIT News

MIT principal investigators will receive funding and support for projects seeking an impact in the developing world.

Tata Center for Technology and Design • mit
April 12, 2018 ~1 min

Professor Joseph Sussman, expert in complex engineering systems and revered mentor, dies at 79 | MIT News

Leader in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Institute for Data, Systems, and Society was the inaugural JR East Professor.

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
April 4, 2018 ~7 min


School of Engineering first quarter 2018 awards | MIT News

Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the last quarter.

School of Engineering • mit
April 3, 2018 ~8 min

With buildings and infrastructure, it pays to take a life-cycle perspective | MIT News

Concrete Sustainability Hub research shows life-cycle thinking has long-term environmental and economic payoffs.

Anne Wilson Yu | Concrete Sustainability Hub • mit
March 30, 2018 ~4 min

A machine-learning approach to inventory-constrained dynamic pricing | MIT News

New study shows that Thompson sampling can be naturally combined with a classical linear program formulation to include inventory constraints.

Leslie Sheppard | Institute for Data, Systems, and Society • mit
March 15, 2018 ~3 min

MIT rates No. 1 in 12 subjects in 2018 QS World University Rankings | MIT News

MIT ranked within top 5 in 19 out of 48 subject areas.

Stephanie Eich | Resource Development • mit
Feb. 28, 2018 ~1 min

Urban heat island effects depend on a city’s layout | MIT News

The way streets and buildings are arranged makes a big difference in how heat builds up, study shows.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 22, 2018 ~6 min

MIT’s growing global leadership in water achieves industry recognition | MIT News

Water industry publication recognizes J-WAFS director John Lienhard and other influential water sector leaders with strong connections to MIT, in 2018 Top 25 list.

Andrea Sutton | Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab • mit
Feb. 21, 2018 ~7 min


A microbial approach to agriculture | MIT News

A new special subject, Agricultural Microbial Ecology, takes students to Israel.

Carolyn Schmitt | Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering • mit
Feb. 14, 2018 ~7 min

Intensive agriculture influences U.S. regional summer climate, study finds | MIT News

An increase in corn and soybean production in the Midwest may have led to cooler, wetter summers there.

David L. Chandler | MIT News Office • mit
Feb. 13, 2018 ~7 min

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