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MIT expands research collaboration with Commonwealth Fusion Systems to build net energy fusion machine, SPARC
MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) will substantially expand its fusion energy research and education…
Study: Immigrants in the U.S. are more likely to start firms, create jobs
Immigrants to the U.S. are more likely to start businesses than native-born Americans are, according to…
Peter Fisher to step down as head of the Department of Physics
Peter H. Fisher, the Thomas A. Frank (1977) Professor of Physics, will step down as the…
Sanjay Sarma to step down as vice president for open learning
After nearly a decade running MIT’s digital learning platforms and education initiatives, Vice President for Open…
Material designed to improve power plant efficiency wins 2022 Water Innovation Prize
The winner of this year’s Water Innovation Prize is a company commercializing a material that could…
Aging Brain Initiative awards fund five new ideas to study, fight neurodegeneration
Neurodegenerative diseases are defined by an increasingly widespread and debilitating death of nervous system cells, but…
Multiplying the MIT $100K’s impact
In two weeks, students will gather in Kresge Auditorium for the 26th annual MIT $100K Entrepreneurship…
Providing hands-on photonics education across Massachusetts
Photonics — the science of guiding and manipulating light — enables applications ranging from telecommunications, artificial…
Professor Emeritus Markus Zahn, who specialized in electromagnetic field interactions, dies at 75
Markus Zahn, the Thomas and Gerd Perkins Professor of Electrical Engineering (Emeritus) within the MIT Department…