Seven MIT researchers win 2017 Sloan Research Fellowships
Faculty from four MIT departments among 126 selected from across the U.S. and Canada.
Daron Acemoglu wins BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Prolific MIT economist honored for path-breaking work.
![“[W]hen I came here for CPW [Campus Preview Weekend], I realized that these people were really passionate about what they were doing, and that they were doing really cool things. It’s nerdy, but it’s my kind of nerdy,” senior Hermoon Worku says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201702/MIT-HermoonWorku-A1.jpg?itok=296Nh4HY)
Future physician-advocate
Senior Hermoon Worku is pursuing a career dedicated to surgery, advocacy, and teaching.
Strength in numbers
PhD student Dean Knox studies social networks and how individuals use them to access government goods and services.
The world as we think the world should be
Assistant Professor Charlotte Brathwaite believes theater brings people together in a positive way.
Cheaper, faster randomized evaluations
J-PAL North America releases new catalog of administrative data sets to give researchers a leg up in conducting rigorous evaluations of social programs.
Measuring “diagnostic intensity”
New study maps U.S. regions where patients appear more ill than they are
3 Questions: Emma Teng on “China Comes to Tech”
New exhibit delves into history of Chinese students at MIT.
Government leaders gather at MIT to advance evidence-based policymaking
State and local policymakers joined with leading researchers to share experiences overcoming challenges to evaluating government programs.
Matthew Cavuto: Getting a leg up on engineering
MIT senior will use Marshall Scholarship to work on devices that enhance mobility for the disabled.
3 Questions: How philosophy can address the problem of climate change
MIT professor of philosophy Kieran Setiya explores how individuals and societies can think about and act on climate change.
Featured video: "I grew up in Damascus"
Driven to help others, an international MIT student is making a positive mark on the world.
Featured video: The light fantastic in Building E52
Leo Villareal's "hypnotic" LED art installation welcomes visitors to the newly renovated Morris and Sophie Chang Building.
3 Questions with Richard Nielsen: How political science helps combat terrorism
Assistant Professor Richard Nielsen explores why some Muslim clerics adopt the ideology of militant jihad while most do not.
A new fight with old battle lines
Book explores what France’s LGBTQ rights battle says about identity and belonging.