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“Learning is not just about having a professor transfer knowledge but also about the life-long lessons that you pick up from teachers in the process," one nominator wrote in support of Amah Edoh's receipt of the Everett Moore Baker Award.

Assistant Professor Amah Edoh receives Baker Award for undergraduate teaching

Anthropologist honored by MIT students as "a mentor, a role model, and someone who is truly making a difference."

June 3, 2020

“When I was looking for a university," says MIT senior Talia Khan, "I wanted one with access to top-quality music teachers and top-quality science. Here, we have the same quality of music education as conservatories, and you also have the rest of the MIT education.”

Meet the MIT bilinguals: Dual materials science and music major Talia Khan

Fulbright Fellowship recipient encourages more musicologists and scientists to do interdisciplinary work with one another.

May 26, 2020

"This was definitely one of the highlights of my MBA," said Benjamin Boutboul, grad student in MIT Sloan and a leader of the 40-participant Africa Takes On Covid-19 virtual hackathon. "I am so proud of us and what we all accomplished together."

MIT builds community for the Africa Takes On Covid-19 challenge

Some 40 students pull off a global virtual hackathon in less than two weeks.

May 14, 2020

“The foundation for teaching ethics at MIT is for students to have a sense of proximity to social and ethical issues,” says Milo Phillips-Brown, a postdoc in philosophy. “The idea of having this class be so student-driven is that this allows them to come to ethics on their own terms; they follow what’s important to them and develop an inner motivation to be involved.”

Infusing ethics into experiential learning

In a new undergraduate course, students explore the ethical dimensions of their experiences.

May 8, 2020

Design that makes a difference

Fusing art, science, and product design, senior Jierui Fang has followed — and sometimes created — her own path at MIT.

May 6, 2020

Kenneth Keniston was crucial in launching the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT.

Remembering Kenneth Keniston, founder of the MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Longtime professor played a major role in encouraging MIT to ask new questions that significantly broadened the Institute’s educational mission.

April 18, 2020

Teams pitch business solutions and present proof-of-concept prototypes at an MIT Entrepreneurship and Maker Skills Integrator showcase.

Making MIT entrepreneurship matter in Hong Kong

MIT students collaborate with Hong Kong peers to solve urban challenges through the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node.

March 30, 2020

Milo Phillips-Brown (left) and Marion Boulicault are part of a team working on transforming technology ethics education at MIT.

3 Questions: Marion Boulicault and Milo Phillips-Brown on ethics in a technical curriculum

Philosophers are part of a team working on transforming technology ethics education at MIT.

March 11, 2020

Left to right: The Machu Picchu Design Heritage project is a past Global Seed Fund recipient. Paloma Gonzalez, Takehiko Nagakura, Chang Liu, and Wenzhe Peng pose with a panoramic view of Machu Picchu in Peru. They are part of an MIT team that has worked to digitally document the site.

Empowering faculty partnerships across the globe

MISTI Global Seed Funds program has delivered $22 million to faculty since 2008.

March 3, 2020

Carolina Ortega, a third-year mathematics student at MIT, talks with students as part of a MISTI-Africa program to connect MIT mathletes with their Ghanaian counterparts.

It all adds up

MIT students train teams in Ghana and Uganda for the International Mathematical Olympiad through MISTI-Africa.

February 26, 2020

(Left to right:) MIT students Kenny Li, Maya Murad, Devin Zhang, Tiffany Fung, Eduardo Rivera, Evan Pu, Taylor Baum, Julian Alverio, and Madhav Kumar participated in this year's MISTI Global Startup Labs program.

Dreaming big in a small country

MIT students teach machine learning and entrepreneurship in Uruguay through MIT Global Startup Labs.

February 24, 2020

Singing for joy and service

After surgery to correct childhood hearing loss, Swarna Jeewajee discovered a desire to be a physician-scientist, and a love of a cappella music.

February 2, 2020

Hazel Sive, a globally respected developmental biologist and educator, will become dean of the Northeastern University College of Science, beginning in June 2020.

Hazel Sive named dean of Northeastern University College of Science

Professor and Whitehead Institute member has conducted wide-ranging research in vertebrate developmental biology.

December 16, 2019

Students discussed a project at the joint Skoltech-MIT conference "Shaping the Future: Big Data, Biomedicine and Frontier Technologies" in 2017.

MIT Skoltech collaboration enters its third phase

Faculty and students at both universities will continue to pursue common research interests, collaborating to solve cutting-edge problems in science and engineering.

December 11, 2019

MIT and Lamborghini recently filed a joint patent for a material that will serve as the technological base for a new generation of supercapacitors. Here, Patricia Das ’17, who interned at Automobili Lamborghini through MIT-Italy, is seen at work at Lamborghini Santa Agata Bolognese Labs.

Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future

MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe.

November 19, 2019

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