Go Tech! MIT's nuclear #fusion reactor established a world record on its final day of operation. Learn more: http://mitsha.re/A4Dc305bMhT

#nuclear #energy #cleanenergy #nuclearpower #engineering #MIT

“Doing research that I care about, and that helps others, makes my heart sing.” —Lily Bui, PhD student in MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning

#womeninSTEM #ILookLikeAnEngineer #data #MIT

Barack Obama talks AI, robo-cars, and the future of the world with +MIT Media Lab Director Joi Ito: mitsha.re/EzGR30570s9 via +WIRED 

#potus #innovation #technology #MIT

“We want to see the amount of time you need to search for a parking spot in a city drop from around 35 to 40 minutes to less than five minutes.” —Wen Sang PhD ’14, co-founder of Smarking Inc.

#parking #transportation #data #analytics #MIT

Happy Ada Lovelace Day! Here are four of MIT's fantastic #womeninSTEM, rendered in LEGO: Paula Hammond, Maria Zuber, Sangeeta Bhatia, Millie Dresselhaus.

Photos: Maia Weinstock

#scientist #engineer #women #ALD16 #AdaLovelaceDay #MIT

Four rising firms snagged top honors in MIT’s Inclusive Innovation Competition (IIC) as part of a new $1 million contest rewarding companies whose technologies can improve economic opportunity for people from a full range of income levels and social circumstances.

#innovation #startup #entrepreneur #MIT

Nearly one in every two undergraduates in the United States attends community college. But community colleges face an important hurdle: How can they scale so as to offer high-quality, affordable education to growing student numbers?

Now, researchers from MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Office of Digital Learning, and Teaching and Learning Lab are collaborating with community colleges to develop innovative educational technology that tackles this issue.

#communitycollege #highered #onlinelearning #MIT

Pro Football player and MIT Ph.D. candidate @JohnCUrschel talks about balancing the game 🏈 and mathematics.

#NFL   #mathematics   #leadership   #MIT  

Campaign rhetoric. Sexism. Racism. Polling data. Here's what 12 scholars in the [@MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences] think about #Election2016:

#Election #Clinton #Trump #socialscien

Researchers at MIT and other institutions have created tiny freeze-dried pellets that include all of the molecular machinery needed to translate DNA into proteins, which could form the basis for on-demand production of drugs and vaccines.

#vaccines #biopharmaceuticals #medicine #MIT

On Ada Lovelace Day, meet 10 pioneering women in STEM from the @MIT Libraries archives:

#womeninSTEM #women #science #AdaLovelaceDay#ALD16 #MIT

Exciting news: MIT Professor Bengt Holmström has won a share of the Nobel Prize in economic sciences! Congratulations!!

#NobelPrize #Economics #Contracts #Nobel #MIT