Edmund Bertschinger, professor of physics and division head, astrophysics, has been appointed the Head of the Department of Physics, effective July 1.

Adam Kerry Boyles has been named director of the 123-year-old MIT Symphony Orchestra (MITSO), MIT's Music and Theater Office has announced.

MIT team experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer, called WiTricity, potentially useful for powering laptops, cell phones without cords.

New software from the MIT Media Lab unleashes kids' creativity online

In the daunting marathon that leads to successful drugs, promising drug candidates must pass toxicity tests before entering clinical trials.

Restless lifestyle' of so-called junk DNA has meaning for all

For the first time in its 20-year history, the prestigious Annenberg Fellowship has been awarded to a student from MIT.

Gerardo Jose la O' left his hometown of Bacolod City in the Philippines almost 10 years ago to attend Berkeley and then graduate school at MIT. Visits home consisted of eating fresh seafood and sweet pastries called boat tarts and lounging on the white sand beaches where he swam, snorkeled and scuba dived as a youth.

MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and IBM have announced the recent completion of the first course in the United States structured around the capabilities of the Cell Broadband Engine (Cell/B.E.), the microprocessor that powers the new PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system.

Work could let robots see better