3 Questions: Jim Walsh on the Korean standoff
An MIT international security expert discusses the escalating tensions between North Korea and South Korea, and the possibility of repairing relations.
3 Questions: The euro mess
MIT Sloan economist Kristin Forbes on the recent troubles roiling the international financial markets
Tackling cancer on a new front
New program at MIT’s Koch Institute targets the growing cancer problem in India.
Pattern seen in governments’ currency policies
Small-time money transfers from migrants shape key decisions on foreign exchange, research shows.
In the World: Clean Water for Ghana
MIT students help a researcher build a factory that could provide water filters for 1 million people in northern Ghana
Slideshow: A Terrascope spring break
Students visit Abu Dhabi to learn about plans for the world’s first carbon-neutral city
3 Questions: David Miliband on Afghanistan’s future
Before delivering the Compton Lecture, Britain’s foreign secretary sat down with MIT News to discuss the state of the war in Afghanistan
New wheelchair gets its first real-world test
Grad student’s device aims to meet the needs of millions of people in the developing world.
MIT's chapter of Engineers Without Borders launches first project
Students hope to bring electricity and clean water to Ugandan health clinic
A silver lining to the Copenhagen cloud?
Though widely seen as a failure, December’s climate conference may actually have set the world on the right path, panelists suggest
MISTI Global Seed Funds winners announced
Covering an astonishing range of topics, 43 international faculty research projects received almost $700K in funding from the MISTI Global Seed Funds competition.
MIT signs formal agreement with Singapore University of Technology and Design
President Hockfield lauds new university’s ‘distinctive vision’
MIT Professional Education delivers its first course in India
This week, MIT Professional Education is conducting its first-ever three-day course in India, “Airport and Airline Systems: Planning, Design and Management,” as part of the program’s new international outreach initiative.