School of Engineering awards for 2023
Each year, the MIT School of Engineering honors outstanding faculty, students, and staff across its departments, labs, centers, and institutes with a number of awards. Recently, the school announced the…
Explained: The 1.5 C climate benchmark
The summer of 2023 has been a season of weather extremes. In June, uncontrolled wildfires ripped through parts of Canada, sending smoke into the U.S. and setting off air quality…
MIT at the 2023 Venice Biennale
The Venice Architecture Biennale, the world’s largest and most visited exhibition focusing on architecture, is once again featuring work by many MIT faculty, students, and alumni. On view through Nov.…
The tenured engineers of 2023
In 2023, MIT granted tenure to nine faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year’s tenured engineers hold appointments in the departments of Biological Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering,…
Tables and figures: Why are graphics taken for granted in research writing?
Writing a scientific paper is as complex as it is gratifying. To take one on, researchers have to complete literature reviews and orchestrate tests — which they have to design,…
3 Questions: Boosting concrete’s ability to serve as a natural “carbon sink”
Damian Stefaniuk is a postdoc at the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub (CSHub). He works with MIT professors Franz-Josef Ulm and Admir Masic of the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental…
The curse of variety in transportation systems
Cathy Wu has always delighted in systems that run smoothly. In high school, she designed a project to optimize the best route for getting to class on time. Her research…