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QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26
international faculty, and proportion of international students. MIT was also ranked the world’s top university ... MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which ... were announced today. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full 2026 ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/qs-ranks-mit-world%E2%80%99s-no-1-university-2025-26A nonflammable battery to power a safer, decarbonized future
a telecommunications company with serial entrepreneurs and longtime members of the MIT community Ray Stata ’57, SM ’58 ... interfaces of matter has unlocked numerous new research pathways across various fields, and MIT has provided ... Lithium-ion batteries are the workhorses of home electronics and are powering an electric ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/nonflammable-battery-power-safer-decarbonized-futureResearchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
heat-radiating capabilities. Image: Felice Frankel Now MIT engineers have made samples of strong, tissue-like ... Svetlana Boriskina, a research scientist in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Boriskina is author ... The color of a material can often tell you something about how it handles heat. Think of wearing ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/researchers-tune-material%E2%80%99s-color-and-thermal-properties-separatelySpeedy robo-gripper reflexively organizes cluttered spaces
SaLoutos, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “Someone could put something new ... joystick button, it’s a game of wait-and-see. If the claw misses its target, she’ll have to start from ... scratch for another chance at a prize. MIT_Reflex-Grip-02-PRESS.jpg The research team, from left to right: ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/speedy-robo-gripper-reflexively-organizes-cluttered-spacesVishnu Jayaprakash
winner of the MIT Abdul Latif Jamel Water and Food Systems Lab World Food Day student video competition. ... On Oct. 12, MIT mechanical engineering alumnus Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 was ... named the first-place winner in the graduate category of the Collegiate Inventors Competition. The ...
https://meche.mit.edu/people/vishnu-jayaprakashAI helps robots manipulate objects with their whole bodies
billions of potential contact events, planning for this task quickly becomes intractable. Now MIT ... technique called smoothing, which summarizes many contact events into a smaller number of decisions, to ... the MIT researchers designed a simple model that performs a similar type of smoothing, enabling it to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/ai-helps-robots-manipulate-objects-their-whole-bodiesJ-WAFS: Supporting food and water research across MIT
MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Water and Food Systems Lab (J-WAFS) has transformed the landscape of ... see that over 10 percent of the MIT faculty have benefited from J-WAFS funding,” observes J-WAFS ... supporting high-risk, high-reward projects, J-WAFS has amplified the capacity of MIT faculty to pursue ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/j-wafs-supporting-food-and-water-research-across-mitEngineers make clear droplets produce iridescent colors
assistant professor of mechanical engineering at MIT. “As some of these dyes are more strongly regulated, ... this effect and its physical explanation to light, there might be an answer.” Sara Nagelberg of MIT ... Engineers at MIT and Penn State University have found that under the right conditions, ordinary ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/engineers-make-clear-droplets-produce-iridescent-colorsClosing the design-to-manufacturing gap for optical devices
design-to-manufacturing gap, researchers from MIT and the Chinese University of Hong Kong used machine learning to build ... to a wide range of photolithography systems. MIT-Neural-Lithography-01_0.jpg Researchers from MIT and ... of electronics. Credits: MIT News; iStock “This idea sounds simple, but the reasons people haven’t ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/closing-design-manufacturing-gap-optical-devicesInspiring Hands-On Learning
this photo is a reminder of what MIT stands for – the soul and DNA of MIT, mind and hand, this is ... Great Dome by student hackers, in honor of the 100th anniversary of human-powered flight. MIT’s wind ... In June of 1916, facing challenges with overcrowding and recognizing a need for more space to ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/inspiring-hands-learningWhat STEM Requires, Dance Provides
her experiences as an MIT student, Toussaint Beach saw the need to increase the representation of ... Monday, August 19, 2019 Julie Fox- Slice of MIT Culture Education Horizontal STEM From Dance, an ... Yamilée Toussaint Beach '08 combines dance and technology to empower more young women of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/what-stem-requires-dance-providesImaging tech promises deepest looks yet into living brain tissue at single-cell resolution
regions underneath, such as the hippocampus. In a new study, a team of MIT scientists and engineers ... the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. In the journal Light: Science and Applications, ... For both research and medical purposes, researchers have spent decades pushing the limits of ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/imaging-tech-promises-deepest-looks-yet-living-brain-tissue-single-cell-resolutionMIT senior wins 2020 Rhodes Scholarship for Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region
and Human Rehabilitation in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, Daher helped design a robotic ... Senior Ali Daher from Amman, Jordan, is a recipient of the new Rhodes Scholarship for the Syria, ... Jordan, Lebanon, and Palestine region. Daher will graduate this fall with a bachelor of science in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/mit-senior-wins-2020-rhodes-scholarship-syria-jordan-lebanon-and-palestine-regionStartup founded by MIT alumnus unveils electric vehicles for the future
the Los Angeles Auto Show. MIT-Rivian_1024.jpg One of the two models unveiled at the Los Angeles Auto ... capital-intensive as a automotive company. “MIT draws together some of the smartest minds in the world to study and ... Electric vehicle startup Rivian Automotive has spent the first nine years of its existence in ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/startup-founded-mit-alumnus-unveils-electric-vehicles-futureFrom electric racecars to prosthetic feet – students present their research at annual exhibition
skills by presenting their research projects. The wind whipped down Mass Ave. Torrents of rain pelleted ... the roof of the Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center. The remnants of Hurricane Jose circled above. Dry ... improving hurricane intensity forecasts. “The overwhelming majority of energy in a hurricane comes from warm ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/electric-racecars-prosthetic-feet-%E2%80%93-students-present-their-research-annual-exhibitionImmune action at a distance
out of the tumor before they have had a chance to take full effect. MIT researchers, together with ... Engineering, and a member of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT. “Now, with ... the growth of tumors, but they will not eradicate them. Occasionally, however, treating a tumor in one ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/immune-action-distanceTo excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds
a mechanical engineering graduate student at MIT. “The objective of these models is to mimic a dataset. But as ... from millions of examples of previous works. These enormously powerful and versatile tools excel at ... generating new content that resembles everything they’ve seen before. But as MIT engineers say in a new ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/excel-engineering-design-generative-ai-must-learn-innovate-study-findsA new heat engine with no moving parts is as efficient as a steam turbine
N. Noyce Career Development Professor in MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. “This is an ... part, by the U.S. Department of Energy. Wednesday, April 13, 2022 Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office ... Engineers at MIT and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have designed a heat engine ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/new-heat-engine-no-moving-parts-efficient-steam-turbineFrom Naval Architecture to Big Tech to MIT’s Corporation Chair
go to MIT and study naval architecture.” It was a piece of advice that she credits with changing the ... course of her life. DianeGreene1024.jpg Diane Greene SM '78 Photo Courtesy of MIT Alumni Association ... | Slice of MIT Greene, who made Institute history in 2020 when she became the first woman to chair the MIT ...
https://meche.mit.edu/news-media/naval-architecture-big-tech-mit%E2%80%99s-corporation-chair3-D scanning, with your smartphone
Sloan School of Management’s iTeams class, which brings together students from across MIT to develop ... of his MIT dissertation. “Now it only takes a smartphone or digital camera a few minutes online to ... MIT $100K competition (finishing as semifinalists), and founded Viztu — making use of MIT’s Venture ...
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