3 Questions: Kyle Filipe on moving MIT online amid the Covid-19 pandemic Director of IT support services for MIT Information Systems and Technology describes how his unit mobilized to prepare the MIT community for our new virtual landscape. May 5, 2020 Read full story →
Professor Wayne O’Neil, linguist and advocate for linguistics in education, dies at 88 Longtime MIT professor and department head also participated in many efforts in support of peace and social justice. May 1, 2020 Read full story →
Q&A: Gregory Rutledge on initial testing of KN95 respirators for public health officials MIT professor’s research group leverages its capability for testing filtration efficiency to assess certain respirators for MEMA, others. April 30, 2020 Read full story →
Jim Collins receives funding to harness AI for drug discovery The Audacious Project commitment will support the development of new classes of antibiotics to treat the world’s deadliest bacterial pathogens. April 22, 2020 Read full story →
Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society Longtime professor played a major role in encouraging MIT to ask new questions that significantly broadened the Institute’s educational mission. April 18, 2020 Read full story →
Faithfully supporting well-being Ezra Zuckerman Sivan, Jinhua Zhao, and Kamal Youcef-Toumi honored as “Committed to Caring.” April 17, 2020 Read full story →
MIT offers assistance to City of Cambridge during Covid-19 crisis The Institute is supporting Cambridge’s nonprofits, small businesses, and residents. April 9, 2020 Read full story →
In virtual town hall, MIT leadership updates community on Covid-19 responses Critical research continues, students and staff are receiving support, and contingency planning proceeds for eventual phased reopening. April 9, 2020 Read full story →
A message from MIT astronauts: Accept the mission and find your motivators To help us navigate this time of social distancing, three MIT astronauts share lessons of isolated living aboard the International Space Station. March 24, 2020 Read full story →
Creating Peru’s next generation of data scientists IDSS and social impact group Aporta share a vision to educate and empower. March 9, 2020 Read full story →
2020 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named Anikeeva, Fuller, Tisdale, and White receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching. March 9, 2020 Read full story →
MIT Solve announces 2020 global challenges Tech-based solutions sought for challenges in work environments, education for girls and women, maternal and newborn health, and sustainable food. February 25, 2020 Read full story →
3 Questions: MIT’s Quality of Life Survey is here The survey, deployed every four years, is a unique, confidential forum for community input. February 19, 2020 Read full story →
Aron Bernstein, professor emeritus of physics, dies at 88 Bernstein was a member of the Hadronic Physics Group in the Laboratory for Nuclear Science, and a longtime anti-nuclear weapons activist. February 3, 2020 Read full story →