Table of Contents
- 1 Rolling out remote learning
- 2 Scene at MIT: Donations of personal protective equipment ready for local hospitals
- 3 Energy-harvesting design aims to turn Wi-Fi signals into usable power
- 4 An experimental peptide could block Covid-19
- 5 MIT-affiliated companies take on Covid-19
- 6 A stopgap measure to treat respiratory distress
- 7 MIT joins White House supercomputing effort to speed up search for Covid-19 solutions
- 8 Thank you for your patients
- 9 The growth of an organism rides on a pattern of waves
- 10 Staring into the vortex
- 11 Ed Boyden wins prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal
- 12 Fusion researchers endorse push for pilot power plant in US
- 13 New sensor could help prevent food waste
- 14 Emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals are larger than expected
- 15 Bacterial enzyme could become a new target for antibiotics
- 16 MIT graduate engineering, business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2021
- 17 Pioneering researcher Jonathan Weissman joins Whitehead Institute and MIT
- 18 School of Science announces 2020 Infinite Mile Awards
- 19 Scientists quantify how wave power drives coastal erosion
- 20 Dancing electrons solve a longstanding puzzle in the oldest magnetic material
Rolling out remote learning
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, MIT enters a new mode for teaching and learning.
March 29, 2020
Scene at MIT: Donations of personal protective equipment ready for local hospitals
Labs across campus respond to a call; MIT sends thousands of items directly to area hospitals in need.
March 27, 2020
Energy-harvesting design aims to turn Wi-Fi signals into usable power
Device for harnessing terahertz radiation might enable self-powering implants, cellphones, other portable electronics.
March 27, 2020
An experimental peptide could block Covid-19
MIT chemists are testing a protein fragment that may inhibit coronaviruses’ ability to enter human lung cells.
March 27, 2020
MIT-affiliated companies take on Covid-19
A variety of companies with MIT ties are working to address aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
March 26, 2020
A stopgap measure to treat respiratory distress
Repurposing a drug used for blood clots may help Covid-19 patients in danger of respiratory failure, researchers suggest.
March 24, 2020
MIT joins White House supercomputing effort to speed up search for Covid-19 solutions
Consortium includes industry, government, and academic institutions.
March 23, 2020
Thank you for your patients
An unusual synergy between cancer researchers, clinical centers, and industry leads to promising clinical trials for a new combination therapy for prostate cancer.
March 23, 2020
The growth of an organism rides on a pattern of waves
Study shows ripples across a newly fertilized egg are similar to other systems, from ocean and atmospheric circulations to quantum fluids.
March 23, 2020
Staring into the vortex
MIT researchers describe factors governing how oceans and atmospheres move heat around on Earth and other planetary bodies.
March 19, 2020
Ed Boyden wins prestigious Wilhelm Exner Medal
Entrepreneurial science award recognizes scientists whose work opens up “new dimensions of economic progress.”
March 18, 2020
Fusion researchers endorse push for pilot power plant in US
Fusion energy community makes unified statement on priorities in report for Department of Energy Policy Advisory Group.
March 18, 2020
New sensor could help prevent food waste
Monitoring the plant hormone ethylene could reveal when fruits and vegetables are about to spoil.
March 18, 2020
Emissions of several ozone-depleting chemicals are larger than expected
Recovering and safely destroying the sources of these chemicals could speed ozone recovery and reduce climate change.
March 17, 2020
Bacterial enzyme could become a new target for antibiotics
Scientists discover the structure of an enzyme, found in the human gut, that breaks down a component of collagen.
March 17, 2020
MIT graduate engineering, business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2021
Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.
March 17, 2020
Pioneering researcher Jonathan Weissman joins Whitehead Institute and MIT
Globally respected cell biologist will be the Whitehead Institute’s inaugural Landon T. Clay Professor of Biology and a professor of biology at MIT.
March 16, 2020
School of Science announces 2020 Infinite Mile Awards
Ten staff members recognized for dedication to School of Science and to MIT.
March 16, 2020
Scientists quantify how wave power drives coastal erosion
The average power of waves hitting a coastline can predict how fast that coast will erode.
March 16, 2020
Dancing electrons solve a longstanding puzzle in the oldest magnetic material
Physicists use extreme infrared laser pulses to reveal frozen electron waves in magnetite.
March 11, 2020