Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s first-ever vice president for equity and inclusion announced his resignation on Friday, according to an internal message from MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today, The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies solving the world’s most urgent problems, announced the ...

Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, and Arup Chakraborty earn MIT’s highest faculty honor. Arup K. Chakraborty and Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, have been named Institute Professors, the highest honor for MIT ...

In this year’s STAT Madness, a bracket-style competition to honor the best in recent biomedical research, each finalist exploited carbon nanotubes to tackle one of the two leading causes of death in ...

MIT scientists have found a way to make gene editing far safer and more accurate — a breakthrough that could reshape how we treat hundreds of genetic diseases. By fine-tuning the tiny molecular “tools ...

Researchers developed a manufacturing technique that rapidly generates large quantities of nanoparticles coated with drug-delivering polymers, which hold great potential for treating cancer. The ...

CAMBRIDGE (CBS/AP) — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is severing ties with a research university it helped establish more than a decade ago in Russia, citing the country's "unacceptable ...

A research institute backed by two of Massachusetts' most illustrious universities has joined the state effort to test patients for the coronavirus. The Broad Institute, founded in 2004 by MIT and ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (February 14, 2007) – The ability to leap tall buildings in a single bound used to be the stuff of comic-book fantasy. Nathan Ball, a 23-year-old graduate student at the Massachusetts ...