Welcome to Kendall Square
The flourishing innovation district takes its place as a destination and a gateway
Fall 2018
“Kendall Square is a vital source of opportunities, talent, and resources to help the people of MIT deliver their ideas to the world. Our future success depends on making sure that Kendall succeeds as a place—a place where people want to live, work, and play, and a place that makes our city stronger, too.” —MIT President L. Rafael Reif
Life on Main Street
A new residence for grad students will offer community and connections in a hard-to-beat location
Founders Forward
What’s driving the new generation of biotech spinouts in Kendall Square?
Running Start
Students who hatch their companies at MIT are well-positioned for impact
Latest stories
The Medium Is the Meditation
Behind the scenes of a student-created VR experience
Popular stories
Following the Thread
Three years of project work yield NEET students an experimental model of the human gut—and preparation for their postgraduation goals
A NEET New Approach to Engineering Education
Curriculum focuses on new machines that will address social needs of the future
Discovery Science
Like This World of Ours
An MIT science writer traces the hunt for extrasolar planets
The Search Continues
TRAPPIST team member joins MIT faculty
A Vision for Human and Machine Intelligence
Advancing the science and engineering of intelligence for the benefit of society
Why the Focus on Human Intelligence?
MIT’s head of brain and cognitive sciences explains the neuroscience/AI connection
Health of the Planet
Down to Earth
How can technologies invented for space advance sustainable development goals?
Implications, Discoveries, Applications
A sampling of MIT research underway in the realm of human and machine intelligence
Shore Lines
The Nepf lab is helping to restore wetlands by modeling how and why they are so beneficial
New Life for Metals
Cem Tasan aims to invent repairable, reusable alloys
Human Health
To the Letter
In the Zhang lab, a leap forward in CRISPR-based genome editing offers precision RNA fixes with major therapeutic implications
To Your Health
From head to toe, MIT remedies for what ails us
Tool Box
MIT-made online resources address Haitian education, banking reform, and global development
An Emphasis on Health
Retsef Levi and colleagues are helping to create a medical system focused on improving patient outcomes
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Automation and the Future of Work
An Institute-wide task force examines how innovation is reshaping the job market
Detecting Leaks from Inside the Pipe
A soft robot that senses the suction of escaping water
Breaking the Bottleneck in Genetic Engineering
A startup backed by The Engine harnesses microfluidics to reprogram cells with unprecedented speed
Teaching Learning and Living
A Transformative Future for the Met Warehouse
Proposed renovation would house School of Architecture and Planning
We Get Together and Sparks Fly
Students take a Maker Break
Running the Course
Programming mini autonomous cars during IAP
A Fresh Look at the First Year
A design subject engages students as both stakeholders and problem solvers