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Tackling student food insecurity with SwipeShare
Partnership between the Division of Student Life, undergrads, and grad students that enables guest swipe donations draws 673 donated meals in its first week.
3Q: Institute Professor John Deutch on maintaining US leadership in technological innovation
Putting limits on foreign students or technical publications would be counterproductive, write Deutch and Condoleezza Rice.
Calculating the cost of tech-fueled discrimination
Math graduate student’s Data for Black Lives conference provides numbers behind the technologies that enable exclusion.
Celebrating a decade of interdisciplinary microbiology
The Microbiology Graduate PhD Program spans 50 labs across 10 departments and divisions, offering a broad approach to microbial science and engineering.
Featured video: Learning lessons from teaching others
Computer science major Melanie Chen serves as teaching assistant, curriculum developer, and mentor to high school students in a unique MIT program.
Three MIT seniors awarded 2018 Marshall Scholarships
Nick Schwartz, Olivia Zhao, and Liang Zhou will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.
MIT brainpower highlighted in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 lists for 2018
Forbes calls this year's 30 Under 30 lists an "encyclopedia of creative disruption."
New chapter for theater at MIT opens with “Everybody,” a morality play for our time
Starting with inaugural performance in new facility, students immerse themselves in all aspects of making theater.
A new way to store thermal energy
MIT researchers create material for a chemical heat “battery” that could release its energy on demand.
Bringing design thinking into nuclear science and engineering
Nuclear Systems Design class immerses students in the design and communications skills needed to produce innovations.
Using art to disrupt systems of oppression
Visiting Artist B. Stephen Carpenter II examines issues of access, privilege and the global water crisis.
Mary Clare Beytagh: Finding poetry in medicine
MIT senior and aspiring physician aims to tell stories that humanize the patients behind medical statistics.
President Reif: We must build a future in which technology works for everyone
Boston Globe op-ed by MIT president calls for a “whole-society effort” to address profound challenges posed by automation.
High School teams awarded 2017-18 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects
Fifteen student teams nationwide address local problems through invention.