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Senior Research Scientist Brian Anthony leads the discussion on SMART Manufacturing.

Smart manufacturing program boosts productivity in factories

MIT Smart Manufacturing Leadership Program provides education, hands-on experience to leaders at manufacturing giant.

March 7, 2018

Research shows that students who fail to read adequately in first grade have a 90 percent probability of reading poorly in fourth grade, and a 75 percent probability of reading poorly in high school.

MIT and Harvard join forces to address early childhood literacy

Reach Every Reader aims to end early literacy crisis.

March 6, 2018

The 2018 MacVicar Faculty fellows are (clockwise from top left): Shankar Raman, David Autor, Merritt Roe Smith, and Christopher Capozzola.

Four professors named 2018 MacVicar Fellows

Autor, Capozzola, Raman, and Smith receive MIT's most prestigious undergraduate teaching award.

March 5, 2018

After graduating from MIT with a degree in mechanical engineering and a minor in management science, Chun aims to earn a master's degree in engineering science at Oxford University. After he returns to the United States, Chun plans to begin law school with a focus on intellectual property.

Bringing meaningful technologies to market

MIT senior and Rhodes Scholar Matthew Chun wants to promote innovation that enhances quality of life in developing countries.

March 1, 2018

Michael J. Cima has been named co-director of the Innovation Initiative and associate dean of innovation at MIT’s School of Engineering.

Cima takes on new role to promote innovation

Materials science and engineering professor is the new co-director of the Innovation Initiative and associate dean of innovation for the School of Engineering.

March 1, 2018

The task force leadership team consists of (right) David Autor, the Ford Professor of Economics and associate head of the MIT Department of Economics; (left) David Mindell, the Frances and David Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and professor of aeronautics and astronautics; and (center) Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center...

MIT launches Task Force on the Work of the Future

Institute-wide effort will study the evolution of jobs in an age of technological advancement.

February 27, 2018

Four MIT students from the first "MIT and Slavery" class (21H.S01) presented well-researched information and narratives that shed new light on the history of science and technology in the U.S. (Left to right) Charlotte Minsky '20, Kelvin Green II '21, Mahi Elango '20, teaching assistant and PhD student Clare Kim, and, at the podium, Alaisha Alexander '18.

Event explores initial findings from “MIT and Slavery” class

Students bring the Institute into national conversation about universities and the institution of slavery in the United States.

February 23, 2018

Yun Chang, an AeroAstro junior, took time to explore London while doing research at Imperial last summer.

MIT expands partnership with Imperial College London

Collaborative academic and research exchange programs continue to grow.

February 22, 2018

Undergraduate financial aid boosted for 2018-19

Financial aid increase of 9.6 percent to offset 3.9 percent rise in tuition and fees.

February 21, 2018

A depiction of the Future Heritage Lab planned facility in the Al Azraq refugee camp, Jordan.

Future Heritage Lab devises creative responses to humanitarian crises

Artistic collaboration between MIT, German-Jordanian University is designed to reduce trauma for refugees in the Al Azraq Camp in Jordan.

February 21, 2018

MIT professor of chemistry Richard Schrock delivers the annual Killian Lecture.

A lifelong search for new catalysts

Richard Schrock, trailblazer in organometallic chemistry, delivers annual Killian Lecture.

February 16, 2018

From left to right: Nora Murphy, archivist for researcher services in the Institute Archives and Special Collections; Craig Steven Wilder, the Barton L. Weller Professor of History in the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; Clare Kim, a graduate student in the HASTS program (History, Anthropology, and Science, Technology, and Society) who served as teaching assistant for Murphy and Wi...

MIT class reveals, explores Institute’s connections to slavery

Findings show founder William Barton Rogers possessed enslaved persons before coming to MIT; research, community dialogue to ensue.

February 12, 2018

The 2018 Festival of Learning was a day of learning with national thought leaders, MIT innovators, an interactive learning expo, food, fun, and more. Hundreds of attendees experienced the catalyzing power behind initiatives designed to transform education.

Lessons in learning

MIT's second annual Festival of Learning engages and inspires.

February 7, 2018

Carissa Skye a third-year physics major who interned at Shell in Hamburg, Germany, poses at the top of the Hamburg Planetarium.

Undergrads gain experience in energy sector with MITEI member companies

MISTI places MIT students in energy-focused internships abroad.

February 6, 2018

“I am fascinated by how people work, why we do what we do, and why we think what we think,” says senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou.

Decoding human cognition

MIT senior and Marshall Scholar Liang Zhou wants to elucidate the neural basis for our thoughts and intuitions.

February 1, 2018

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