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.
MIT senior Olivia Rosenstein's cross-country participation provides momentum to her studies as an experimental physicist working with 2D materials, optics, and computational cosmology.
MIT physicists discovered stars near the edge of the Milky Way travel more slowly than those closer to its center a surprise suggesting our galaxy’s gravitational core may have less dark matter than previously thought.
George R. Ricker, a senior research scientist at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, is the principal investigator for NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Sky Survey (TESS) Explorer mission, which has discovered thousands of new planets since its launch in 2018.