Impact players
MIT Innovation Initiative conference explores the state of “social impact investing.”
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A “graduation” from poverty
Study: Anti-poverty intervention provides sustained boost to incomes and wealth.
Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying of Hong Kong visits MIT
University-driven innovation a key focus of Institute meeting.
National Academy of Sciences elects four MIT professors
Bowring, Mrowka, Poterba, and Seager named for “distinguished” research.
Real estate and reality
MIT economist Albert Saiz studies real estate and its many links to urban life.
New memorial a labor of love
Architects and engineers detail their novel design for MIT’s Collier Memorial.
3 Questions: Marcia Bartusiak on black holes and the history of science
MIT professor’s new book explores the winding path of scientific discovery.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visits MIT
Discussion of innovation keynotes stop; Japan gives gift to Institute.
Passage from India
New book details how Kenya’s Indian immigrants established a foothold in a foreign land.
Norman B. Leventhal ’38, visionary developer and philanthropist, dies at 97
Corporation member helped create Boston’s urban revival and was a noted contributor to MIT.
President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger visits MIT biophysics lab
African leader tours the lab of Ibrahim Cissé, an assistant professor of physics.
The rapid rise of human language
New paper suggests people quickly started speaking in a now-familiar form.