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Short, one of 23 winners of the 2021 Teaching With Digital Technology Awards, was nominated for excellence in digital teaching for both fully online classes as well as those which were a hybrid of online and in person.

NSE’s Bilge Yildiz and Laura Grego along with Lydia Bourouiba, Hong Liu, Thomas Peacock, and Lindley Winslow, are named 2021 fellows for their contributions to physics.

White and Selin will lead a new faculty committee to drive MIT's climate action plan over the next three years.

By incorporating the scattering of RF waves into fusion simulations, MIT physicists improve heating and current drive predictions for fusion plasmas.

Mathematical simulations show the new approach may offer faster, cheaper, and more accurate detection, including identifying new variants.

Researchers evaluate the role and value of long-duration energy storage technologies in securing a carbon-free electric grid.

Jacopo Buongiorno and others say factory-built microreactors trucked to usage sites could be a safe, efficient option for decarbonizing electricity systems.

Jacopo Buongiorno, Jeffrey Freidberg, Koroush Shirvan, and Dennis Whyte receve MIT Energy Initiative Seed Fund grants for their early-stage energy research projects. Awards support research to improve the efficiency, scalability, and adoption of clean energy technologies.

Associate Professor Michael Short's innovative approach can be seen in the two nuclear science and engineering courses he’s transformed.

Emeritus professor’s contributions over a span of seven decades advanced nuclear waste disposal and fuel cycle development Michael J. Driscoll, emeritus professor of nuclear science and engineering, recognized for his leadership in research and devotion to mentorship and education, died peacefully on...