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Creating innovations that scale across borders

Creating innovations that can succeed in both emerging markets and in developed, higher-income markets requires a targeted, thoughtful design process. In a new book, Amos Winter, the Germeshausen Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and a pioneer in engineering design, and coauthor Vijay Govindarajan, a leading voice in strategy and innovation, present a framework for […]

Q&A: Rethinking how innovation happens

Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and […]

Scientists unveil more than 600 new tissue models of human cancer

To develop new targeted treatments for cancer, scientists need tissue models that accurately represent the genetic and molecular traits of the cancer they’re studying. An international team led by researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute, the Broad Institute, the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, the National Cancer Institute, and numerous other partnering institutions has developed nearly 700 new […]

Past is prologue for geopolitical developments

The end of World War II marked a turning point for global empires; weakened by years of conflict, European nations could no longer hold onto their colonies. A wave of independence followed. This shift was fueled by local anti-colonial activists, the heavy economic toll of the war, and the strategic interests of the new global […]

MIT student leaders: Q&A with MIT dining influencer Michaela Brown

Last fall, MIT Campus Dining recruited a group of students to make short videos and share their experiences as student diners on Instagram. The MIT Dining Ambassadors program is an effort to get students talking about — and helping to improve — MIT’s food services and systems.  One of the inaugural ambassadors, Michaela Brown, a biochemical […]

Three MIT Press journals lead their fields with Clarivate No. 1 rankings

In an increasingly crowded, for-profit landscape for scholarly research, the health of a publishing program is often measured by the influence of its publications. This year, three MIT Press journals demonstrated their stature by earning the highest impact factors in their disciplines. Computational Linguistics ranked first in the Linguistics category, International Security led the International Relations […]

MIT-led project opens first climate shelter in Bangladesh

In southwestern Bangladesh, where extreme heat and severe tropical cyclones threaten the lives of millions of people, a new kind of climate refuge has opened its doors. At the Baradal Aftab Uddin Collegiate School in the Satkhira district, the Jameel Observatory Climate Resilience Early Warning System Network (Jameel Observatory-CREWSnet) opened its first “adaptation fortress,” a […]

MIT-designed educational factory embraces modern manufacturing

From the basement of MIT’s Building 35 to Monterrey, Mexico, and now beyond. That is the journey of FrED, a low-cost desktop fiber (Fr) extrusion (E) device (D), designed and assembled by students in an educational factory at MIT. That factory is transforming how manufacturing is taught — replacing textbook learning with hands-on experience in […]

Lerna Ekmekcioglu named head of MIT’s History Section

Lerna Ekmekcioglu, the McMillan-Stewart Professor of History, has been named head of the History Section, effective July 1.  “Lerna is an exceptional scholar and a proven leader. I am confident that she will guide the unit with thoughtfulness, wisdom, and a deep commitment to its continued success. I very much look forward to working with […]

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