With a new National Science Foundation grant, Justin Reich and collaborators will apply information literacy research to communities outside the formal education system.

“U.S. competitiveness depends less on defensive measures than on what we do to strengthen our own capacities,” says MIT’s vice president for research.

With the MIT campus as a test bed, a citizen science effort provides lessons well beyond MIT.

Postdocs who feel safe taking risks benefit MIT’s research community, says MIT’s vice president for research.

Researchers find improvement in relative retention of women but predict decades of sustained effort are required to achieve gender parity.

Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab.

Professor Siqi Zheng promotes sustainable urbanization at MIT’s Center for Real Estate.

MIT researchers train a neural network to predict a “boiling crisis,” with potential applications for cooling computer chips and nuclear reactors.

Student-led efforts preserve iconic campus landmark for future generations of education and research.

Members of the biology community came together to honor and celebrate the contributions and many achievements of the department and its affiliates.