Nation Dec 17 MIT professor's fatal shooting has police still searching for a suspect By Associated Press
Nation Dec 16 An MIT professor was shot at home. Authorities say no suspect is in custody Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died at a local hospital on Tuesday morning after the Monday night shooting in Brookline, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. By Associated Press
Education Oct 10 MIT president rejects proposal to adopt Trump priorities for funding benefits The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology said Friday she “cannot support” a White House proposal that asks MIT and eight other universities to adopt President Donald Trump's political agenda in exchange for favorable access to federal funding. By Collin Binkley, Associated Press
Science Mar 18 Our past and future is written in Earth's landscape. Here's how one geomorphologist is reading it Taylor Perron seeks to answer questions about Earth's past and future by reading landscapes from our world and out in the solar system. By Isabella Isaacs-Thomas
Nation Jul 14 Trump administration rescinds rule on international students A federal judge is expected to hear arguments Tuesday in a lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration policy requiring international students to transfer schools or leave the country if their colleges hold classes entirely online this fall amid the pandemic. By Collin Binkley, Associated Press
Jul 13 More than 200 schools back lawsuit over foreign student rule By Collin Binkley, Associated Press More than 200 universities are backing a legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy saying international students cannot stay in the country if they take all their classes online in the fall. Continue reading
Jul 08 Harvard, MIT sue to block ICE rule on international students By Associated Press The universities contend that the directive violates the Administrative Procedures Act because officials failed to offer a reasonable basis justifying the policy and because the public was not given notice to comment on it. Continue reading
Jan 21 Watch 4:52 How Polaroid pioneered the instant photography revolution By Jared Bowen, WGBH The Polaroid camera bypassed the entire process of film development, thus providing photographers an immediate look at their work. Released for sale in 1948, the first version was an “instant” hit. Now, the museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology… Continue watching
Nov 15 This new 'battery' aims to spark a carbon capture revolution By Nsikan Akpan Inventors claim their carbon capture “battery” could return CO2 to preindustrial levels within 40 years, but first it has some economic hurdles to overcome. Continue reading
Sep 08 Director of MIT's Media Lab steps down over Epstein ties By Associated Press The director of a prestigious research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology resigned Saturday, and the school's president ordered an independent investigation amid an uproar over the lab's ties to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. Continue reading