Sloan Fellowship

MIT professors Ariel Furst, Mohsen Ghaffari, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Darcy McRose, Sarah Millholland, Emil Verner, and Christian Wolf, along with 21 additional MIT alumni, are among 126 early-career researchers named 2025 Sloan Research Fellows.

LucidSim is an AI-powered simulator that trained a robot dog to perform parkour using generated images without any real-world data. This approach, from MIT CSAIL researchers, scales up training data, helping robots transfer skills to the real world without additional fine-tuning.

Professor Alex K. Shalek is the new director of MIT's Institute for Medical Engineering and Sciences (IMES).

Privid is a new system that provides better privacy in video footage from surveillance cameras. The system, developed out of MIT CSAIL, lets analysts submit video data queries, and adds a bit of noise to the end result to ensure an individual can't be identified.

MIT's New Enterprises course challenges students to work through every step of the entrepreneurship process. It has been taught every year since 1961.

The fellowships recognize young scholars whose achievements and potential place them among the next generation of scientific leaders

The awards honor early career researchers who have demonstrated innovation and creativity

MIT professors Roger Levy, Tracy Slatyer, and Martin Wainwright won 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships in neuroscience, physics, and data science. Guggenheim Fellows are awarded monetary stipend to pursue independent work and research.

Popular Science named Ronald Garcia Ruiz, an MIT Laboratory for Nuclear Science researcher and assistant professor of physics as one of 2023's "Brilliant 10," recognizing his contributions to experimental physics.

MIT physicists have metaphorically turned graphite, or pencil lead, into gold by isolating five ultrathin flakes stacked in a specific order. The resulting material can then be tuned to exhibit three important properties never before seen in natural graphite.

Recent scientific discoveries have shown that Neanderthal genes comprise some 1 to 4% of the genome of present-day humans whose ancestors migrated out of Africa, but the question remained open on how much those genes are still actively influencing human traits -- until now.

MIT Professor Deepto Chakrabarty has been named as the new head of the MIT Department of Physics.

The study of superconductivity is littered with disappointments, dead ends, and serendipitous discoveries, according to Antia Botana, professor of physics at Arizona State University.

In a person with active tuberculosis, immune activity can promote bacterial clearance, but in some situations, bacteria persist and grow. New research in an animal model of tuberculosis reveals which cellular and molecular features are associated with these different scenarios. Developing a vaccine that targets one or more of these features may effectively combat tuberculosis, which remains a major global health…

MIT researchers performed a large-scale, high resolution study of the cells in human breast milk, allowing them to track how these cells change over time in nursing mothers.

MIT Associate Professor Heather Kulik is an explorer in the sprawling universe of possible chemical combination. The chemical engineer embraces computer models as "the only way to make a dent" in the vast number of potential materials that could solve important problems.

Susan Clark is helping to unravel the mysterious workings of the Milky Way's magnetic field, a critical missing piece of the galactic puzzle.

MIT physicists and colleagues created a five-lane superhighway for electrons that could allow ultra-efficient electronics and more.

MIT professors Guoping Feng, Piotr Indyk, Daniel Kleitman, Daniela Rus, Senthil Todadri, and nine MIT alumni were among the 120 members newly elected to the National Academy of Sciences for 2024.

A new underwater communication and networking technique can achieve kilometer-scale ranges while consuming about one-millionth the power required by current communication methods.