Even lawyers don’t like legalese
A new study shows lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand, more appealing, and just as enforceable as traditional contracts.
A new study shows lawyers find simplified legal documents easier to understand, more appealing, and just as enforceable as traditional contracts.
The HUMANS nanowafer, an MIT Space Exploration Initiative student-led project, will travel to the ISS this month, and later to the moon, carrying messages in more than 64 languages from over 80 countries.
Poet, student advocate, and math/physics double-major Catherine Ji is living boldly at MIT.
Rising junior in Course 6-9 was “brave and compassionate” and strove to lift up others.
Edward Gibson and Eric Martinez are among this year's winners of the satiric prize, for explaining what makes legal documents so difficult to comprehend.
New initiative extends the press’ commitment to publishing books by historically underrepresented authors through direct financial support.
PhD students discuss their participation in The Poetry of Science project and the importance of bringing the arts into science communication.
MIT’s Alan Lightman co-authors the first title from MIT Kids Press, a new imprint from the MIT Press and Candlewick Press.
Students in 21L.434 discover that the world-making of science fiction is not only a way to envision possible futures, but a powerful way to think about the world we currently inhabit.
MIT Music and Theater Arts lab provides students with a chance to workshop scripts with seasoned actors and directors in a professional setting.
Prizes recognize student writing on topics related to immigrant, diaspora, bicultural, bilingual, and/or multi-racial experiences.
The Isabelle de Courtivron Writing Prize is seeking student writing submissions about immigrant, diaspora, bicultural, bilingual, and/or mixed-race experiences.
The acclaimed writer, whose work has become a cause célèbre in France and beyond, speaks as part of the MIT Global France Seminar series.
Now in its 20th season, a popular poetry series provides the MIT community with new voices and verbal harmonies — and a window into MIT's varied poetry offerings.
Recent graduate honored for her unique audio piece, crafted at MIT, encouraging self-reflection on race.