![“There's a lot of role models here [at MIT], and sometimes, in Chile or in Mexico or in Costa Rica, [girls] don't know that there's a graduate student or an undergrad doing these cool things at MIT,” says grad student Alicia Chong Rodriguez. “I think it's a matter of just connecting the dots.”](/sites/default/files/styles/search_result_item/public/images/201608/MIT-Alicia-Chong-1.jpg?itok=ueAa8pRa)
Taking on gender gaps in health care and technology
Graduate student Alicia Chong Rodriguez uses her engineering skills to empower women.
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Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88
World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.
New movie screen allows for glasses-free 3-D at a larger scale
Prototype display enables viewers to watch a 3-D movie from any seat in a theater.
2016 MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows announced
Program blurs the lines between academia and the world.
Seeing RNA at the nanoscale
Microscopy technique allows scientists to pinpoint RNA molecules in the brain.
Music of the (data) spheres
A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.
Driverless cars: Who gets protected?
Study shows inconsistent public opinion on safety of driverless cars.
Supercharging undergraduate research
Now open to the entire School of Engineering, SuperUROP is creating an interdisciplinary community of scholars.
![“It’s very inspiring to see how these [hair-like] structures occur in nature and how they can achieve different functions,” says Jifei Ou, a graduate student in media arts and sciences at MIT. “We’re just trying to think how can we fully utilize the potential of 3-D printing, and create new functional materials whose properties are easily tunable and controllable.” Pictured is an examp...](/sites/default/files/styles/search_result_item/public/images/201606/MIT-PrintingHair.jpg?itok=0hg7Gg0k)
Need hair? Press “print”
With fur, brushes, and bristles, Media Lab’s technique opens new frontier in 3-D printing.
Tech Reunions shatters attendance records
More than 4,400 alumni and friends returned to campus June 2-5.
Mixing solids and liquids enhances optical properties of both
New approach can dramatically change the extent to which optical devices scatter light.
MIT Corporation elects 10 term members, two life members
Term members will each serve five years on MIT’s board of trustees.
MIT at the Venice Biennale
On a global stage, MIT helps steer architecture toward solving worldwide challenges.
MindHandHeart’s 10 newest Innovation Fund projects reduce stress and lower barriers to support
The MindHandHeart Innovation Fund announced its third round of grant winners at its final steering committee meeting for the academic year.