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The 2019 AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Misconduct will be open for all MIT students to take between April 2 and May 1.

MIT launches 2019 AAU survey on sexual misconduct, responds to National Academies report

Survey open to all students April 2-May 1; MIT creates presidential advisory board and helps launch national consortium to improve academic climates and cultures.

April 1, 2019

Professor Susan Silbey provided a rousing defense of the humanities during her lightning talk at the 2019 MacVicar Day symposium.

Celebrating passionate teachers and enthusiastic learners

At this year's MacVicar Day symposium, faculty and students reflect on the challenges and joys of education in the 21st century.

March 29, 2019

Whitehead Institute’s David Page to conclude term as director

Search committee chaired by MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield will identify new director for eminent biomedical institute.

March 27, 2019

David Pesetsky is the Ferrari P. Ward Professor of Modern Languages and Linguistics at MIT.

3 Questions: What is linguistics?

MIT Professor David Pesetsky describes the science of language and how it sheds light on deep properties of the human mind.

March 27, 2019

Thirteen students participate in the inaugural run of MIT-India 3.008 Humanistic Co-Design in the Developing World.

Co-designing assistive technologies in India

MIT students connect with premier Indian institutes, hospitals, and students to collaborate on “humanistic” assistive design.

March 25, 2019

Picower Professor Li-Huei Tsai (standing), co-director of the Alana Down Syndrome Center, reviews data in the lab with Senior Alana Fellow Hiruy Meharena.

Alana gift to MIT launches Down syndrome research center, technology program for disabilities

Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.

March 20, 2019

Vinod Khosla, who runs Khosla Ventures and was a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, delivered the David J. Rose Lecture.

Entrepreneur Vinod Khosla: “Focus on the consequences of success”

In David Rose Lecture, Sun Microsystems co-founder urges bold plans to address global challenges.

March 11, 2019

Jordan Benjamin uses a rotating water tank to demonstrate the bridge between observation and theory underlying weather and climate phenomena.

Taking the world by storm

Jordan Benjamin, a double major in physics and atmospheric science, studies the weather inside and out of the classroom.

March 9, 2019

Participants in a Martha's Vineyard net-zero carbon design thinking workshop included MIT Energy Initiative staff; representatives from Martha's Vineyard, Shell, and Viessmann; and students from MIT, Harvard University, and Tufts University.

Students helping to make islands carbon neutral

MIT Energy Initiative program is using design thinking to solve energy issues on Martha’s Vineyard and beyond.

March 8, 2019

"MIT is going to be the anchor of what we will know in this society as public interest technology," predicted Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, in a recent MIT panel discussion on ethics and artificial intelligence. "What MIT is doing will set the pace for every other university that wants to be relevant in the future."

Making a path to ethical, socially beneficial artificial intelligence

Leaders from government, philanthropy, academia, and industry say collaboration is key to make sure artificial intelligence serves the public good.

March 5, 2019

Left to right: Erik Demaine, Graham Jones, T.L. Taylor, Joshua Angrist

2019 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named

Professors Angrist, Demaine, Jones, and Taylor receive MIT's highest honor in undergraduate teaching.

March 4, 2019

In her keynote address, "Computing Is for Everyone," Harvey Mudd College President Maria Klawe emphasized the importance of attracting more women and underrepresented minorities to computer science and engineering.

Innovating at the speed of light

Symposium speakers describe how colleges must meet the challenges of a rapidly emerging environment in which "computing is for everyone."

March 4, 2019

Sang-won Leigh PhD '18, left, works with second-year student Ethan Nevidomsky, an electrical engineering and computer science major, on ArtMatr’s oil-based printing system during the Computing Connections Challenges.

Student challenges kick off celebration of MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

“We see an incredible future where the College of Computing channels the collaborative potential of disciplines,” says grad student Matthew Claudel.

February 25, 2019

“Having representation from women, especially black women, in the [nuclear science and engineering] department was a huge factor in me wanting to come back,” says PhD candidate Raspberry Simpson.

From summer research program to PhD dissertation

Graduate student Raspberry Simpson’s scientific journey approaches fruition.

February 15, 2019

Rahsaan Hall, director of racial justice at the Massachusetts ACLU, delivered the keynote address at the annual MIT Martin Luther King Jr. Luncheon.

MLK Luncheon: America’s bank of justice is overdrawn but not bankrupt

Rahsaan Hall of the ACLU’s Massachusetts branch delivers keynote at annual MIT event.