MIT granted tenure to 11 faculty members across the School of Engineering. This year's tenured engineers hold appointments in ...

Anantha Chandrakasan, an Indian American professor of electrical engineering and computer science who has held multiple leadership roles at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has been ...

Modern humans have existed for over 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell-dividing, changing ...

In 2023, Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Professor of Biology, and then Ph.D. candidate Gizem Gumuskaya, AG23, created Anthrobots, tiny multicellular organisms grown from a single human tracheal cell ...

Modern humans have existed for more than 200,000 years, and each new generation has begun with a single cell—dividing, changing shape and function, organizing into tissues, organs, and limbs. With ...

Currently the dean of MIT's School of Engineering, Chandrakasan also holds the title of Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Since taking over as dean in 2017, he ...

Invented in 1930 by 3M engineer Richard G. Drew, it was the world’s first transparent adhesive tape. It was created so bakers, grocers, and meatpackers had a way to seal food wrap.

Vannevar Bush was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and science administrator. He was the leader of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. His offices were ...

Early life The son of a teacher and an entrepreneur, Claude Elwood Shannon relayed his first bits of information as a crying baby on April 30, 1916, in the small town of Petoskey, Michigan. He went to ...

Vannevar Bush, an electrical engineer who oversaw military research efforts during World War II, including development of the atomic bomb, had a different idea.