Topics: Discovery Science
Fall 2015
Undaunted by the Big Challenges
Maria Zuber, vice president for research, on how MIT digs into complex problems.
Fall 2015
Forward Together: Solve Kicks Off
The Solve conference, taking place on the MIT campus in October, seeks to answer the hard questions of our time.
Fall 2015
Supporting New Connections in Immunology
Phillip “Terry” ’72 and Susan Ragon created an institute to accelerate discovery of an HIV vaccine.
Fall 2015
Tiny Living Factories
Kristala Jones Prather is developing new, improved methods of chemical synthesis.
Summer 2015
Mapping Soil Moisture from Space
Dara Entekhabi’s work could affect a range of issues from our understanding of the conditions for life on Earth to agriculture in Africa.
Summer 2015
Ancient Life, Cast in Stone
Tanja Bosak’s work explores how the Earth changed from one antithetical to complex life forms to one supporting an explosion of such organisms 540 million years ago.