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MIT Press announces inaugural recipients of the Grant Program for Diverse Voices

The grants expand funding for authors whose work brings diverse and chronically underrepresented perspectives to scholarship in the arts, humanities, and sciences.

March 3, 2023

Remembering Professor Emeritus Edgar Schein, an influential leader in management

A faculty member at MIT Sloan for more than 65 years, Schein was known for his groundbreaking holistic approach to organization change.

March 3, 2023

Anna Osherov photographed through an opening in an electron microscope whose parts appear in the foreground

A closer look at the nanoscale and beyond

Materials scientist Anna Osherov helps researchers comprehend the nanoscale down to an atom using MIT.nano’s characterization tools.

March 2, 2023

Julian Zulueta stands outside wearing a button-up shirt and blazer, with the brick walls of Stata in background.

A traveler on bioengineering’s many paths

Immunology research, public health service, and student leadership are all part of senior Julian Zulueta’s journey toward becoming a physician-scientist.

February 9, 2023

Esther Duflo sits with six students, all dressed for cold weather, at two outdoor sidewalk tables.

“Every time I meet with her, I feel like I have wings.”

MIT Professor Esther Duflo honored as Committed to Caring for fostering graduate student skills and ambition.

February 3, 2023

MIT Professor Bilge Yildiz stands with arms folded in her MIT lab with large metallic equipment behind her

Bilge Yildiz wins Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science

Award recognizes scientists of Turkish origin younger than 50 who have made outstanding contributions to their fields.

January 27, 2023

Matthew Notowidigdo appointed co-scientific director of J-PAL North America

Notowidigdo will guide J-PAL North America in developing rigorous research on economic mobility and advise the creation of a racial equity research agenda.

January 24, 2023

A snowy scene shows Jaume Plensa’s Alchemist sculpture outside the Stratton Student Center.

3 Questions: What to expect from respiratory illnesses, including Covid-19, this winter

MIT Medical Director Cecilia Stuopis says that while this is a time to be more vigilant, people should not panic.

January 13, 2023

Evelyn Wang stands, smiling with arms folded, in a doorway looking out to the green lawn and trees of MIT's Killian Court

Evelyn Wang appointed as director of US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy

The head of MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering was nominated by President Biden to lead ARPA-E’s mission to support critical energy research.

December 22, 2022

Tomás Palacios stands in front of a large blue screen which reads "Industry”.

Tomás Palacios named new director of the Microsystems Technology Laboratories

Palacios has served as director of the 6-A MEng Thesis Program, industry officer, and professor of electrical engineering.

December 15, 2022

Michael Birnbaum and two students, wearing face masks and leaning over a lab workbench while one of the students points at something in the foreground

Holding space for tough topics

Michael Birnbaum has been recognized as Committed to Caring for his wide-reaching support of students and his departmental leadership.

December 7, 2022

Side-by-side portrait photos of MIT 2024 Schwarzman Scholars Sara V. Fernandez, Amanda Hu, and Brigette Wang

Three MIT seniors win 2024 Schwarzman Scholarships

Sara V. Fernandez, Amanda Hu, and Brigette Wang will spend the 2023-24 academic year at Tsinghua University in China studying global affairs.

December 7, 2022

2 portraits, with Galisqewi on stage holding large staff, and Robertson smiling. It says, “Cherokee Innovation.”

Lessons in innovation based on values of the Cherokee Nation

At an MIT event, speakers profiled four Cherokee innovators and traced their success back to the communal and egalitarian culture they came from.

November 29, 2022

Nonabah Lane, Navajo educator and environmental sustainability specialist with numerous ties to MIT, dies at 46

Lane leaves a lasting legacy at the Institute and on tribal communities around the country.

November 15, 2022

Portrait photo of Noah Nathan standing in front of a wall of windows

Urbanization: No fast lane to transformation

Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.

November 8, 2022

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