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Graduate students John Sun, Mohammad Araghchini, Jenna Wiens, Ramesh Sridharan, Audrey Fan, Michael Georgas and James Cowling serve as REFS for the Department of Electrical Engineering (EECS) and Computer Science. REFS help their peers make informed decisions in EECS and 10 other departments across campus.

Grad students help peers through REFS programs

Low-barrier, peer-to-peer resource eases stress.

March 20, 2012

Professors Linda Griffith and Moungi Bawendi toss out icy and hot packs as a demonstration of free energy.

MacVicar Day celebrates the chemistry of collaboration

Speakers honor Margaret MacVicar and Robert Silbey.

March 19, 2012

Anant Agarwal has been named director of a new unit of MIT created to advance MIT’s online-learning initiative, <i>MITx</i>.

Anant Agarwal named director of new unit to advance MITx

Instructor of inaugural 6.002x course will step down as CSAIL director.

March 16, 2012

Haibo Wang, SDM ’12: Systems thinking makes surgeries safer

March 2, 2012

Tania Baker, the E.C. Whitehead Professor of Biology, has been named the new head of the Department of Biology.

Tania Baker named head of the Department of Biology

Succeeds Chris Kaiser, who was appointed director of NIGMS

February 28, 2012

John Reed ‘61, SM ‘65, left, responds to audience questions presented by Northern California alumni board member Mark Gorenberg ‘76.

Chairman says MIT faces challenges globally, at home

John Reed, head of the MIT Corporation, spoke Feb. 21 to the MIT Club of Northern California.

February 27, 2012

National Engineers Week: A Q&A with Olivier de Weck

On engineering systems and the book Engineering Systems: Meeting Human Needs in a Complex Technological World

February 22, 2012

Looking to the future

Susan Hockfield's letter to the community

February 16, 2012

President Susan Hockfield addresses graduates during Commencement.

Susan Hockfield to step down

MIT’s 16th president led Institute in service to nation and world; met recession with unprecedented fundraising success and careful budget management.

February 16, 2012

MIT senior Shamarah Hernandez reflected on the event's theme, 'Expanding the Possible.'

MIT honors Martin Luther King Jr. at 38th annual breakfast

Diversity and education among breakfast-table topics.

February 10, 2012

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a lecture on Tuesday evening at the Boston Public Library as part of the Lowell Lecture Series, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

MIT and the Civil War

President Susan Hockfield speaks on the struggle for America’s future — then and now.

February 9, 2012

Putting lab life under the lens

Economist Scott Stern advances the scientific study of, well, scientists.

February 9, 2012

A screenshot of the new MIT 2030 website.

Institute launches revamped MIT 2030 website

Site aims to engage the MIT community in envisioning the Institute’s future.

February 7, 2012

James DiCarlo, associate professor of neuroscience, has been named head of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

James DiCarlo to head Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences

New department head succeeds Mriganka Sur, who will lead the new Simons Center for the Social Brain at MIT.

February 2, 2012

MIT to launch Institute for Medical Engineering and Science

Based in School of Engineering but spanning all of MIT, IMES will be led by Arup K. Chakraborty.