Eleven principal investigators from six MIT departments will receive grants totaling over $1.3 million, overhead free, for research on food and water challenges.

Education Innovation Grant program for pK-12 and higher education awards $400,000 to MIT faculty to support education innovation both at MIT and globally.

Artificial optical materials could allow cheaper, flatter, more efficient detectors for night vision and other uses.

MIT’s Committed to Caring Award selects third slate of dedicated professors.

The brittle material can turn flexible when made into ultrafine needles, researchers find.

Year-long program will give early-stage entrepreneurs a leg up in the functional fabrics industry.

Researchers find an ultrathin layer of aluminum oxide, though solid, can flow like a liquid instead of cracking.

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

Design principles could point to better electrolytes for next-generation lithium batteries.

Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.