Following seven years as chancellor, Barnhart will assume the Institute’s senior academic post.

As Russia masses military equipment near Ukraine borders, experts in an MIT forum express concern about possible action and its consequences.

The material could pave the way for sustainable plastics.

The assistant dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion at the MIT School of Science answers three questions about the work ahead.

Senior Sihao Huang uses his background in physics and complex systems to inform his interdisciplinary approach to political science.

President L. Rafael Reif, who “was instrumental in leading [MIT] to convert its science into innovation, especially in the areas of life sciences, energy, materials, and machine learning and artificial intelligence,” has announced he will step down at the end of 2022.

MIT researchers developed a material that is two times stronger than steel with just one-sixth the material bulk. “The material has implications for everything from how we build the gadgets we hold in our hands to the buildings we live in.”

Scientists from MIT and Princeton University find hurricanes that cause both extreme high tides and heavy rain will become much more frequent by the end of the century, especially for the northeastern U.S.

Olympian Alexis Sablone ’16 will be the head coach for the United States women’s skateboarding team in the 2024 Olympic Games.