Five from MIT win 2015 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans
Recipients, all immigrants or children of immigrants, win $90,000 apiece to support graduate studies.
Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
MIT-wide effort aims to bring the power of data to the people.
Captioning at scale
Company’s more-efficient captioning system processes hundreds of video-hours per day.
Taking action in Africa
Conference spotlights companies and organizations that are innovating across various sectors.
Two school foundings, 63 years apart, link MIT with advances in Brazilian education
ITA and FazINOVA share a bold vision for Brazilian higher education — and a source of inspiration at MIT.
Economic detective work
Versatile scholar Jonathan Parker finds new ways to decipher riddles in economics.
Study: Prices of cancer drugs have soared since 1995
Researchers find a 10 percent annual increase, after inflation.
MIT launches three new cybersecurity initiatives
Complementary programs will address cybersecurity from the perspectives of technology, public policy, and organizational management.
MIT Climate CoLab seeks high-impact ideas on how to tackle climate change
Twenty-two contests now open to the global public.
Making the leap from lab to market
MIT Innovation Initiative aims to foster an even more consistent approach to building bridges from research findings to real world impact.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.
Bringing “everyone wins” recycling to Nigeria
Across the slums of Lagos, a startup’s bikes have removed 600 tons of recyclables in return for rewards.
MIT Professional Education and Center for Real Estate announce new Certificate in Real Estate Finance and Development
Enrollment open for a five-course certificate program.