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MIT faculty, alumni receive 2025-26 American Physical Society honors

Two faculty and six additional alumni win top APS awards and prizes; four faculty and 12 additional alumni named APS Fellows.

April 17, 2026
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, Alumni, Biophysics, Condensed Matter Theory, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment

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Laser-focused: Four MIT students foster new insights into inertial confinement fusion

September 2, 2020

MIT hosts seven distinguished MLK Professors and Scholars for 2020-21

September 1, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Visiting Faculty, URM STEM
Graphical depiction of two molecules on a train track

Scientists discover new rules about “runaway” transcription

September 1, 2020
Categories: Research, Students, Biophysics
Black holes merging

An unexpected origin story for a lopsided black hole merger

September 1, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Black hole merger

A “bang” in LIGO and Virgo detectors signals most massive gravitational-wave source yet

September 1, 2020
Categories: Research, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
16-qubit superconducting quantum chip

MIT partners with national labs on two new National Quantum Information Science Research Centers

August 30, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Quantum Information Science
Five by four grid of first-year students crossing their arms in a team-building exercise on Zoom

Bringing MIT magic to first-years everywhere

August 27, 2020
Categories: Events, Students
Cosmic rays traveling through space

Cosmic rays may soon stymie quantum computing

August 25, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Nuclear Physics Experiment
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National Science Foundation announces MIT-led Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions

August 25, 2020
Categories: Labs & Centers, Nuclear Physics Experiment, Particle Physics Experiment, Strong Interactions and Nuclear Theory

Are we still listening to space?

August 18, 2020
Categories: Research, Faculty, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
Carolyn Beatrice Parker

J.J Finley Elementary’s new namesake: Carolyn Beatrice Parker SM ’53

August 17, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, In The News, Students, URM STEM, WiSTEM

Nergis Mavalvala named School of Science dean

August 16, 2020
Categories: Awards/Honors, Faculty, URM STEM, WiSTEM, Astrophysics Observation, Instrumentation, and Experiment
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