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New online course addresses data science challenges
“Data Science: Data to Insights” from IDSS and MIT Professional Education begins Oct. 4.
$1 million gift to support diversity in STEM education
Gift from Hopper-Dean Foundation will enhance computer science and engineering programs for high school and middle school students.
D-Lab Scale-Ups awards four fellowships totaling $80,000 to social entrepreneurs
Fellows work on low-cost microgrids, prosthetics made from cane, hands-on STEM education in Ghana, and a rechargeable headlamp for rural Indian farmers.
CEE announces new leadership appointments
Professor Colette Heald will serve as associate department head; Professor Jesse Kroll will chair the Graduate Education Committee.
2016 MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows announced
Program blurs the lines between academia and the world.
Girls Who Build Cameras workshop sparks future engineers
High school girls learn to construct cameras and program image filters at Lincoln Laboratory event.
LINC Conference addresses the changing face of education
Over 250 leading educators, technology entrepreneurs, and digital learning experts convene at MIT.
Mapping molecular neighborhoods
Associate Professor Ernest Fraenkel uses biological network modeling to identify new targets for disease.
Q&A: Stuart Schmill on considering race in admissions
MIT’s admissions dean discusses U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Fisher v. University of Texas.
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
Report calls for more integration of physical, life sciences for needed advances in biomedical research.
A makerspace for students, by students
Initiated and led by students, MIT MakerWorks fosters making with strong engineering focus.
Feng Zhang named 2016 Tang Prize laureate
Broad Institute/MIT scientist among three honored for CRISPR contributions.