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EdX expands xConsortium to Asia and doubles in size with addition of 15 new global institutions

EdX continues to grow its network of the world's leading institutions of higher education to meet global demand and increase access to quality education.

May 21, 2013

MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator announces 2013 student teams

Startup accelerator includes eight MIT student teams as well as teams from six international universities.

May 16, 2013

MSMS student taps MIT Sloan to power energy research

As a student in the Master of Science in Management Studies program, Vikalp Sabhlok examines ways to improve energy distribution systems in developing countries.

May 7, 2013

Photo of a factory floor, with many dozens of workers seated at sewing machines

How to make factory conditions better

After years of research into global production systems, an MIT political scientist is convinced that government, not just the private sector, must help keep workers safe.

May 6, 2013

‘The place I needed to be’

April 26, 2013

Yukio Okamoto, left, is a Robert E. Wilhelm Fellow at the MIT Center for International Studies and a former special advisor to the prime minister of Japan. Liu Weimin is minister counselor at the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C.

China and Japan remain miles apart on uninhabited isles

At MIT event, diplomats and scholars reinforce high stakes, lack of progress on Asian territorial dispute.

April 17, 2013

Watching fluid flow at nanometer scales

Researchers find that tiny nanowires can lift liquids as effectively as tubes.

March 31, 2013

The 2013 MacVicar Faculty Fellows with Dean for Undergraduate Education Daniel Hastings (back row, center). Front row: Linda Griffith and Rob Miller. Back row: Laura Schulz, Hastings and Emma Teng.

Faculty describe experiments with digital learning on MacVicar Day

Participants discuss how they are 'reimagining the MIT classroom.'

March 22, 2013

Clockwise from top left: Linda Griffith, Rob Miller, Emma Teng and Laura Schulz.

Four professors named 2013 MacVicar Fellows

Griffith, Miller, Schulz and Teng awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.

March 15, 2013

Robert C. O'Handley, former research scientist, dies at 70

Was a longtime researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering

March 12, 2013

Q&A: U.S. immigration policy and entrepreneurship

MIT’s Bill Aulet, Danielle Guichard-Ashbrook and Edward Roberts discuss the challenges facing foreign-born entrepreneurs under U.S. immigration policy.

February 28, 2013

MIT report identifies keys to new American innovation

From ‘Main Street’ firms to multinationals, improvements possible in funding of research, collaboration among manufacturers.

February 22, 2013

Edgerton instructor Ed Moriarty, center, is surrounded by students during a session.

Chinese students set their sights on an MIT future

Middle and high school students from Beijing engaged in project-based hands-on science and engineering lessons at the Edgerton Center.

February 19, 2013

Laura Chirot poses with rural kindergarten children in central Vietnam.

When opportunity meets preparation

Political science PhD student Laura Chirot examines industrial policy in late developing countries.

February 13, 2013

Eni CEO Paolo Scaroni, left, and MIT President L. Rafael Reif shook hands as they exchanged signed copies of the renewed partnership agreement between Eni and MIT.

MIT and Eni renew energy partnership

Visiting campus, Paolo Scaroni, head of the Italian energy company, said ‘cooperation between MIT and Eni can give us phenomenal results.’