Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Oliver “Ollie” Smoot didn’t expect to become a lasting legend when he came to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but that all changed the night his fraternity used his body to measure a bridge . A younger Ollie was chosen by Lambda Chi Alpha to become a measurement painted on Harvard Bridge decades ago. Now the “smoot” is an official…

Boston’s Harvard Bridge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is covered in “smoots.” Learn about the origin of this real measurement from Ollie Smoot himself, and discover some of the lesser-known secrets it holds.

The highly-anticipated sequel to the 2018 Marvel blockbuster “Black Panther” spent the past several days filming on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, giving students and faculty a glimpse of all the action. Eyewitnesses spotted crews filming near the student center and on the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge. “They had some race cars around and a motorcycle and there were rumors…

New England is home to half of the top 10 colleges and universities in the country, according to a new report.  On Monday, the college information database Niche published its 2022 Best Colleges report, comparing more than 1,000 colleges and universities across the United States based on student reviews and data from the federal Department of Education.  MIT topped the…

Taking classes at MIT is tough enough, but with one graduate student taking care of a new baby at the same time, a professor’s gesture to make things a little easier for her has garnered a lot of attention.

A graduate student at Yale University was shot and killed over the weekend, and police are searching for a Massachusetts native who graduated from MIT.

A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy.

A professor and researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is facing federal charges for allegedly failing to disclose his ties to the Chinese government to the U.S. Department of Energy. Gang Chen, 56, of Cambridge, was arrested Thursday morning on charges that he abused his position as a professor at MIT to commit wire fraud, failed to file a…

Harvard University undergrad Noah Harris arrived at a Black Lives Matter protest in June in his home state of Mississippi bearing sunglasses, a bandana mask and a “say their names” sign. By summer’s end, he led his classmates in raising $300,000 for Black advocacy and civil rights organizations, NBC News reports. His work grabbed the attention of his fellow Harvard…

With Thanksgiving break on the horizon, some colleges and universities in the Boston area are seeing a spike in coronavirus cases on their campuses. The COVID-19 dashboards for Boston University, MIT and Northeastern University have shown recent rises in the number of cases on campus. MIT reported 65 positive tests in the first 13 days of November after reporting 46…

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology believe they’ve found a way to determine if people have coronavirus based on the sound of their cough through artificial intelligence. The human ear is incapable of picking up on the acoustic variations of a coronavirus cough, but AI can, the researchers say. The technology could be a could indicator of whether...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed artificial intelligence that can identify cases of COVID-19 based on audio recordings of coughs. The AI model it was able to identify 98.5% of coughs from people who had confirmed cases of the virus, including 100% of the coughs from those reportedly did not have symptoms but still tested positive.

Harvard University was on the top of the list for the fourth consecutive year Universities in Massachusetts topped the charts in this year’s Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education’s list of best colleges in America. Harvard University was on the top of the list for the fourth consecutive year, followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Both institutions were also...

The only undergraduate students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who will be invited back to campus this fall are seniors, according to the university’s plan for the coronavirus pandemic and the upcoming semester. Other students can apply for “special consideration housing” on a case-by-case basis, including for visa issues, according to the MIT plan posted to an FAQ...

The number of both cases and deaths of the new coronavirus may actually be much higher than what’s been reported by authorities so far, according to new a study out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Researchers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management used a epidemiologist model for infectious diseases to estimate the spread of the coronavirus in 84...

William McRaven, the retired U.S. Navy admiral who directed the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, told members of MIT’s graduating class Friday that they are the “real heroes” who will save the world from pandemics, war, climate change, poverty and racism. McRaven, who delivered his address online to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he grew up idolizing...

Steven Truong is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studying biological engineering and creative writing. Since moving to remote learning he says one challenge he has had is helping his mother with unemployment paperwork.

Researchers at Harvard and MIT developed an app to provide up-to-date information about people who are experiencing symptoms of the coronavirus.

Many college students in the Boston area are packing up their dorms as they are forced to leave campus mid-semester as their colleges and universities try to slow the spread of the new coronavirus. Dozens of colleges and universities across New England are closing their campuses and switching to online learning.  Students at Harvard University learned earlier this week...

A study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has found serious security concerns in a voting app used in elections in West Virginia, Denver, Oregon and Utah