Under the sea
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
Switchable magnetic pillars
Graduate student Nicolas Aimon develops pulsed laser deposition techniques for mixed multiferroic oxide films.
Sports Shorts for Sept. 30: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Men’s cross country attains highest national ranking ever; field hockey remains undefeated
Sports Shorts for Sept. 23: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Cross country teams sweep Southern Maine titles; Quisenberry earns NEWMAC Player of the Week honors
Accelerating startups, the MIT way
MIT’s Global Founders Skills Accelerator — which focuses on ‘disciplined entrepreneurship’ — helps student teams build innovation-based startups.
Sports Shorts for Sept. 16: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Field hockey, football and women’s tennis remain undefeated; Kryitsis, Laux and Williams all earn Player of the Week honors
Energy and the developing world
New student group aims to raise awareness about the developing world’s energy crisis.
Controlling the growth of semiconducting nanowires
MIT doctoral candidate Sam Crawford has contributed to fundamental understanding of growth processes using metal seed particles.
Mappers, modelers and an anthropologist
HASTS doctoral student Tom Schilling is conducting an anthropological study of geology, forestry and First Nations-led mapping and modeling in rural British Columbia.
New One Community Room opens at MIT
The space is now available to individuals, committees, clubs and working groups that focus on community-building.
Classes launched at Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology
The Russian university, established in collaboration with MIT, welcomes 52 new graduate students.