Seth Mnookin brings bestselling author’s touch to teaching science journalism
Science “pushes me to constantly go out of my comfort zone,” says director of MIT’s science writing program.
Environmental regulation in a polarized culture
Doctoral student Parrish Bergquist investigates how politics affects environmental decision-making.
Reveling in a complex, unknowable future
MIT Media Lab and MIT Press announce winners of the Journal of Design and Science essay competition.
3Q: Barry Posen on the NATO Summit and state of the alliance
National security expert discusses US defense spending and considers whether the NATO alliance should remain a US priority.
MIT European Club leads in giving back
Club wins the MIT Outstanding Award for 2018 and surpasses the $240,000 mark in funding MISTI European Fellows.
Contemplating the eyes in the sky
Media studies scholar Lisa Parks examines the way satellites and other aerial technologies have changed society.
A new way to measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations
Guide developed by J-PAL aims to improve women’s and girls’ empowerment worldwide and reduce bias and other gender-based inequalities.
Three MIT-incubated ventures chosen for first Techstars Impact class
Base Operations, MDaaS Global, and Graviky Labs will head to Texas to be part of the first class at the new elite accelerator.
3 Questions: Historian Caley Horan on the rise of private insurance in the U.S.
Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection.
Building the green
Ken Wang ’71, MIT Corporation member and former MIT Alumni Association president, developed one of America’s premier modern golf courses.
![“What we discovered is, very little [Medicare] money is spent on people who we know with high probability are going to die in a short amount of time,” says Amy Finkelstein, a professor in MIT’s Department of Economics and co-author of a paper in the journal Science.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201806/MIT-Health-Care-Spending.jpg?itok=uM3yQvcx)
The value of late-in-life health care spending
Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.
Discovering hidden stories in the Flint water crisis
Graduate student Elena Sobrino looks beyond the headlines to study interactions between the city’s people and institutions.
Method man
Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.