Massachusetts Institute of Technology News

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- MIT provost L. Rafael Reif, an internationally recognized electrical engineer who learned to speak English after coming to the U.S. for graduate school from his native Venezuela, was named MIT's 17th president on Wednesday.

Our day's top images, in-depth photo essays and offbeat slices of life. See the best of Reuters photography.

The spring semester is drawing to a close at the College of Staten Island . And so is the school president's tenure.

The term ethylene generally brings to mind polyethylene plastics, not fruit. However, ethylene is more than just a feedstock for chemical industry, it is also the smallest plant hormone, and it controls physiological processes, such as the ripening of fruit, seed germination, and the blooming and wilting of blossoms.

Rendering of VCU's Institute for Contemporary Art proposed for the intersection of Broad and Belvidere streets and its architect, Steven Holl .

A new public-private effort aimed at strengthening the U.S. "innovation ecosystem" seeks to leverage promising technologies emerging from university labs so that they can quickly be turned into products.

THE idea that an infusion of hope can make a big difference to the lives of wretchedly poor people sounds like something dreamed up by a well-meaning activist or a tub-thumping politician.

Academic institutions Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have joined forces to provide college-level online courses for free.

A new survey from Amazon.com deems Alexandria the most well-read city in the United States, based on sales of books, magazines and newspapers in both print and Kindle formats since last June.

A new study from Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists suggests that the guidelines governments use to determine when to evacuate people following a nuclear accident may be too conservative.

Editors' Note: The following article is an edited excerpt of "Improving Aluminum Recycling: A Survey of Sorting and Impurity Removal Technologies," which was published in Resources, Conservation and Recycling, www.elsevier.com/locate/resconrec , and is reprinted with permission of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He went to a good school in Calcutta but had playmates who did not go to school at all.

About 250 of the world's top atmospheric scientists and researchers will attend the 40th Global Monitoring Annual Conference at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's campus in Boulder.

Cazenovia College 187th commencement 10:30 a.m. Cazenovia College Quad Class: 250 graduates Keynote speaker: Ron Bruder, founder of Education for Employment and advocate for educational opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa Open to the public? Yes TV/online: No State University College at Cortland 142nd Commencement 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 ... (more)

Purdue University on Friday formally kicked off a new online education initiative that it hopes extends the Purdue brand globally and even pulls in additional revenue down the road.

Whether or not you were aware of it at the time, the world changed in 2011 whenA Ken Jennings lost toA IBM's Watson A on Jeopardy.

The most efficient way to turn sunlight into energy has existed for around 400m years: photosynthesis.

In what is shaping up as an academic Battle of the Titans -- one that offers vast new learning opportunities for students around the world -- Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Wednesday announced a new nonprofit partnership, known as edX, to offer free online courses from both universities.

Last weekend at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., all of the hard work Nantucket High School sophomore James Roggeveen has been doing for his science fair project paid off when he won a second place award and a full, four-year scholarship to UMass Boston at the Massachusetts State Science and Engineering fair.

Departments of Biology and Biological Engineering, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA a-o The efficacy of combination treatments for cancer depends on drug order and timing a-o Dynamic rewiring of signaling networks by drugs can provide therapeutic benefit a-o ... (more)