Engineering fantasy into reality
PhD student Erik Ballesteros is building “Doc Ock” arms for future astronauts.
At convocation, President Kornbluth greets the Class of 2029
“We believe in all of you,” MIT’s president said at the welcoming ceremony for new undergraduates.
Transforming boating, with solar power
Solar electric vehicle pioneer James Worden ’89 brought his prototype solar electric boat to MIT to talk shop with students and share his vision for solar-powered boats.
Graduate work with an impact — in big cities and on campus
PhD student Nick Allen has helped mainstream new tax-reform concepts for policymakers, while working to enhance MIT grad-school life.
The art and science of being an MIT teaching assistant
Training an ever-growing percentage of MIT’s students, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science relies heavily on dedicated and passionate TAs.
Better public service with data
MIT master’s student and Brazilian diplomat Davi Augusto Oliveira Pinto wants to help policymakers make informed choices to improve people’s lives.
Helping cities evolve
Economics graduate student Vincent Rollet studies how housing, regulation, and politics interact to shape the future of cities.
MIT’s Mason Estrada to sign with the Los Angeles Dodgers
The star pitcher has been studying aerospace engineering at MIT. Now his pitches, and career, will take flight in professional baseball.
What do we owe each other?
A new class teaches MIT students how to navigate a fast-changing world with a moral compass.
Designing across cultural and geographic divides
Through a collaboration between the MIT first-year learning community Terrascope, Diné College, and University of Puerto Rico, students learn fundamental design principles — and much more.
At MIT, musicians make new tools for new tunes
From the classroom to expanding research opportunities, students at MIT Music Technology use design to push the frontier of digital instruments and software for human expression and empowerment.
Exploring data and its influence on political behavior
In MIT's course 17.831 (Data and Politics), students are introduced to the power of analysis, visualization, and research-supported insight into political outcomes.
The high-tech wizardry of integrated photonics
PhD candidate Sabrina Corsetti builds photonic devices that manipulate light to enable previously unimaginable applications, like pocket-sized 3D printers.
MIT student wins first-ever Stephen Hawking Junior Medal for Science Communication
Gitanjali Rao, a rising junior majoring in biological engineering, received the prestigious award created by the late theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author.
President Emeritus Reif reflects on successes as a technical leader
At a fireside chat, L. Rafael Reif and Anantha P. Chandrakasan discussed the importance of developing engineering leadership skills to solve the world’s most challenging problems.