Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT partners with STAT on a new health journalism fellowship
The Sharon Begley-STAT Science Reporting Fellowship aims to support early-career science journalists of color.
2021 MITx Prize winners build community on campus and across the globe
MIT instructors honored for creating multidimensional, multidisciplinary online courses that help learners everywhere address real-world problems.
Q&A: Meditation for Chinese language learners
MIT Global Languages lecturers Panpan Gao and Kang Zhou discuss their meditation videos tailored for Chinese language learners.
Thirty-eight extraordinary MIT students named 2021 Burchard Scholars
Undergraduates selected for the competitive program enjoy a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
Taking an indirect path into a bright future
Matthew Johnston ’20 uses physics and baseball skills to get remote villages on the grid.
3Q: The socio-environmental complexities of renewable energy
HASTS PhD student Caroline White-Nockleby aims to advance climate justice by minimizing localized burdens of renewable energy implementation.
Searching for truth in data from authoritarian regimes
PhD student Minh Trinh studies misreporting of government statistics and the effect on accountability in his home country of Vietnam.
Mastering online learning to level up
Abigael Bamgboye set a course for success in engineering and business management through the MITx MicroMasters program in Data and Economic Development Policy.
Thirteen from MIT awarded 2021 Fulbright Fellowships
Grants will support their research, graduate study, and teaching abroad in 2021-22.
A searching discussion about being Asian American at MIT
Panel explores the complexities of Asian American identity and recognition, at the Institute and in higher education.
Astronaut Michael Fincke ’89 offers students out-of-this-world advice
In a virtual event, Fincke discussed his time studying at MIT, learning the Russian language, and flying on both Russian and American spacecraft.
Inhabiting 21st-century science fiction
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.
Targeting the human-related numbers behind remote learning
Senior Fiona Chen combines economics research and student advocacy to study the pandemic’s effect on students.
Helping students of all ages flourish in the era of artificial intelligence
Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) seeks to empower more people to participate in, and benefit from, AI.
Global Languages announces new HASS concentration in Korean
The new concentration extends the options for Asian languages at MIT, which also include Japanese and Mandarin.