Mentoring

Israeli and Palestinian fellows from Our Generation Speaks work with MIT student interns at MITdesignX, a venture accelerator in the School of Architecture and Planning, to develop startups that tackle urban and design issues.

Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship

Visiting fellows engage with students in the School of Architecture and Planning to create startups aimed at social impact.

March 7, 2019

Left to right: Erik Demaine, Graham Jones, T.L. Taylor, Joshua Angrist

2019 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named

Professors Angrist, Demaine, Jones, and Taylor receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching.

March 4, 2019

Attendees of the 2018 Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering Workshop

Helping women in chemical engineering navigate academic careers

Inaugural Rising Stars in Chemical Engineering workshop seeks to increase the number of women who pursue faculty positions.

February 22, 2019

“Having representation from women, especially black women, in the [nuclear science and engineering] department was a huge factor in me wanting to come back,” says PhD candidate Raspberry Simpson.

From summer research program to PhD dissertation

Graduate student Raspberry Simpson’s scientific journey approaches fruition.

February 15, 2019

Left to right: Professors Cullen Buie, Hadley Sikes, and Justin Steil are the winners of the 2018 Committed to Caring Award.

New parameters in graduate mentoring

Professors Cullen Buie, Hadley Sikes, and Justin Steil are honored with the Committed to Caring Award.

February 4, 2019

“It's useful to peek over someone’s shoulder," says Kevin Woller of the students he mentors. "The accelerator is a large machine. It’s not easy to put someone in front of it and say ‘OK, operate it!’"

Kevin Woller: From student to mentor

Research scientist gives back by passing along the nuts and bolts of plasma research.

January 25, 2019

Left to right: MIT professors Emilio Baglietto, Rebecca Saxe, and Matthew Shoulders were nominated by their graduate students and are now honored by the Committed to Caring program as model mentors.

Baglietto, Saxe, and Shoulders ensure grad students thrive

For three Committed to Caring honorees, mentorship is demonstrated through generosity and making connections.

November 14, 2018

The MIT Women's unConference, held March 9-10, was sold out, with nearly 350 registered from 29 states and six countries.

Alumnae unite at MIT Women's unConference

Gathering brings alumni to campus to celebrate women and create connections to further societal changes.

March 19, 2018

At a "pitch and demo" DesignX accelerator event, Department of Urban Studies and Planning student Riddhi Shah, lead for the Kumej project, makes her pitch to the crowd. Kumej is a light, collapsible seat designed to enable underprivileged students in India to carry and create their own comfortable work surface, whether at a construction site where their parents work or in a rural school.

Design innovations for improved life in cities

Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment.

June 13, 2017

The fifteen teams that made their pitches included MIT faculty, students, and alumni. Participants came from every major unit of the School of Architecture and Planning, as well as the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Schools of Science and Engineering.

DesignX selects first cohort

Eight student teams join MIT’s newest entrepreneurship accelerator.

December 14, 2016

Ahmed Ghoniem and graduate students (left); Katherine Kellogg and graduate students

Professors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring

These generous professors put students first, support in both large and small ways.

December 12, 2016

The team behind DesignX, a new design entrepreneurship accelerator from the MIT School of Architecture and Planning: (left to right) Gilad Rosenzweig, executive director for DesignX; Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning and faculty director of the program; Andrea Chegut, research scientist in the MIT Center for Real Estate and director of the MIT Real Estate I...

Entrepreneurship by design

New DesignX accelerator speeds innovation at the School of Architecture and Planning.

October 17, 2016

The Hydroswarm team in Building 24: (left to right) Jon Burton, Sampriti Bhattacharyya — holding their prototype submersible robot — Brindha Kanniah, Adam Gawle, and Patrick Flynn.

Summer in the Sandbox

Students in a new innovation program are using the summer, their new connections, and their funding to move their ideas forward.

August 17, 2016

Launched in January, about 300 MIT students have thus far engaged in the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program. Many will use the summer months to validate their technologies, talk with prospective customers, build prototypes, and carry out key market research.

Helping innovators to "keep going"

How does the Sandbox Funding Board define success? Everyone learning.

June 8, 2016

“I think just by talking to each other and helping people, not only do you potentially inspire someone, or help them make the right choice, but also you learn a lot yourself,” Donald Little says.

Helping others in daily doses

Senior Donald Little uses computer science to improve people’s everyday lives.

May 19, 2016

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