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Three MIT mentors were among this year's student participants, mentors, and judges at the final International Young Physicists’ Tournament at the San Joaquin campus of Pontifical Catholic University.

MIT-Chile collaboration stresses hands-on projects and teamwork in STEM education

MIT alumni and the MIT-Chile Program are bringing unique learning opportunities to Chilean high school students in a partnership with two major Santiago universities.

November 1, 2016

“If we hope for serious solutions to the world’s great challenges, we need to make sure the innovators working on those problems see a realistic pathway to the marketplace,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif said at an Oct. 26 event celebrating the launch of The Engine.

Revving up The Engine for global change

“At MIT, it is our duty to bring transformative innovation to the world,” President Reif said at launch event for new enterprise.

October 28, 2016

This image shows free-air gravitational anomalies and a shaded topographic relief of the Moon’s 930-km-diameter Orientale impact basin. Red corresponds to mass excesses and blue to mass deficits relative to a reference value. This gravitational field model, based on measurements acquired from the NASA GRAIL mission, shows the detailed structure of the central basin depression that is filled with...

Retracing the origins of a massive, multi-ring crater

Scientists reconstruct first hours after a giant impact created one of the largest craters on the moon.

October 27, 2016

Letter to the MIT community regarding the launch of The Engine

October 26, 2016

MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief and publisher Jason Pontin moderates a panel with semifinalists in the Solve: Learn crowdsourced ideas contest.

Improving educational opportunities for refugee youth around the world

Three proposals in MIT Solve's “Learn” pillar advance to finals.

October 26, 2016

The 2016-2017 MIT-Lemelson InvenTeams hail from around the United States.

High school teams awarded 2016-17 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects

Fifteen student teams nationwide set sights on inventing solutions to real-world problems.

October 25, 2016

MIT President L. Rafael Reif shared his vision for the future of MIT with more than 600 alumni and friends of the Institute at a New York City gathering in support of the MIT Campaign for a Better World. "Tonight, we ask everyone here to join us in the challenge," he said.

Hundreds join President Reif in NYC to celebrate MIT’s community and mission

San Francisco will be the next stop on MIT's Better World global tour.

October 25, 2016

Ira Dyer, professor emeritus of ocean engineering, dies at 91

Former head of MIT's Department of Ocean Engineering is remembered for his innovation, entrepreneurship, and vision for ocean engineering.

October 25, 2016

“Gitless" removes complicated concepts like "staging" and "stashing," without fundamentally changing Git's core functionality.

Making it easier to collaborate on code

CSAIL team's “Gitless” fixes Git’s biggest issues — and suggests their approach could help improve systems like Gmail and Dropbox.

October 25, 2016

“The task force spent significant time imagining the kind of library we need at an institution that aims to improve the world,” said Chris Bourg, director of MIT Libraries, who served as the task force chair. “This is an opportunity to go big, to invent the future of the information landscape, and to envision how we can leverage the unique strengths, expertise, and values of MIT to lead the ...

MIT task force releases preliminary “Future of Libraries” report

New library proposals meant to enhance “meaningful access to knowledge.”

October 24, 2016

Solve at HUBweek took place at the MIT Media Lab on Sept. 27 and 28. Participants selected online through an open innovation platform pitched their ideas for meeting a range of challenges, from removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to educating children in refugee camps around the world.

Sparking conversations, spurring solutions

Solve and HUBweek bring together cutting-edge thinkers and doers, from Greater Boston and beyond.

October 21, 2016

“The goal of all this is to present the interesting stuff to the data scientists so that they can more quickly address all these new data sets that are coming in,” says Max Kanter MEng ’15.

Automating big-data analysis

With new algorithms, data scientists could accomplish in days what has traditionally taken months.

October 21, 2016

3 Questions: Maria Zuber on stepping up MIT’s response to climate change

MIT’s vice president for research discusses the challenges ahead for MIT and the world.

October 19, 2016

The Big Apple is the inaugural city for a series of road shows that are part of the MIT Campaign for a Better World.

A New York state of mind

Alumnus Michael Bryzek says there is life outside of Silicon Valley for entrepreneurs.

October 19, 2016

With support from the International Policy Lab, the Trancik Lab compiled a report on the link between emissions cuts and energy technology cost reductions ahead of the 2015 UN climate conference. It was presented at the White House and helped to inform discussions in Paris on strengthening commitments to reduce emissions every five years. Pictured: (left to right) Patrick Brown, Magdalena Klemun, ...

International Policy Lab issues second annual call for proposals to faculty and researchers

The IPL provides funding and policy outreach support to help MIT researchers connect with the policy world.

October 19, 2016

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