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Faculty discuss new TFUAP curriculum proposal at February meeting

Faculty discuss new TFUAP curriculum proposal at February meeting. Reactions ranged from disappointment to enthusiasm.

February 26, 2026
Categories: Education, Faculty/Emeritus, Undergraduates

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Allan MacDonald and Pablo Jarillo-Herrero Win Frontiers of Knowledge Award for “Magic Angle” Discovery

January 14, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, Condensed Matter Experiment
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Efficient cooling method could enable chip-based trapped-ion quantum computers

January 14, 2026
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Quantum Information Science
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Eighteen MIT faculty honored as “Committed to Caring” for 2025-27

January 7, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty/Emeritus, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment, Astrophysics Theory
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A Quantum Leap: How Si-Hui Tan, PhD ’10 Is Rewriting the Future of Code

January 5, 2026
Categories: Profile, WiSTEM

To the Skies: Why David Keith PhD ’91 Believes Geoengineering Is a Vital ToolTo the skies

January 4, 2026
Categories: In The News, Alumni
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Anything-goes “anyons” may be at the root of surprising quantum experiments

December 21, 2025
Categories: Research, Faculty/Emeritus, Graduate Students, Condensed Matter Theory, Quantum Gravity and Field Theory
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Nuno Loureiro, professor and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, dies at 47

December 15, 2025
Categories: In Remembrance, Faculty/Emeritus, Plasma Physics, Astrophysics Theory
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Inside the wild experiments physicists would do with zero limits

December 9, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, High Energy and Particle Theory, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory
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Quantum experiment settles a century-old row between Einstein and Bohr

December 4, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Atomic Physics

MIT community members elected to the National Academy of Inventors for 2025

December 14, 2025
Categories: Profile
Ai-powered Discovery Reveals Electronic Quasicrystals and Crystalline Phases in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

Ai-powered Discovery Reveals Electronic Quasicrystals and Crystalline Phases in Semiconductor Quantum Wells

December 12, 2025
Categories: In The News, Faculty/Emeritus, Postdocs, Condensed Matter Theory

School of Science welcomed new faculty in 2024

December 10, 2025
Categories: In The News, Education, Faculty/Emeritus
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