STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers
MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
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Understanding how people make sense of information in the information age
Graduate student Manon Revel uses quantitative methodologies to investigate how advertising in online publications affects trust in journalism.
Mary Frances Wagley, dedicated educator and the first woman to join the MIT Corporation, dies at 93
One of few female students in the 1940s, Wagley was also the Alumni Association’s first female president.
Inequality across networks
Eaman Jahani examines how resources are distributed across networks as a social and engineering systems PhD student at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Using machine learning to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society
William Barletta, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katelin Schutz, and Phiala Shanahan honored for contributions to physics.
Every vote counts for this math student
Graduate student Ashwin Narayan takes off the fall semester to work on an election information database.
Technique reveals deeper insights into the makeup of nacre, a natural material
Discovery could lead to new designs for improved and more sustainable materials inspired by nature.
3Q: Update on MIT’s Task Force 2021 and Beyond
Co-chairs Rick Danheiser and Sanjay Sarma describe a push to “invent a thriving new future” for MIT.
Silencing gene expression to cure complex diseases
Immuneering uses bioinformatics to develop new medicines while also helping large pharmaceutical companies improve their treatments.
Why soldiers fight
Political science graduate student Matthew Cancian brings his own military experience to bear on battlefield psychology.
What are the odds your vote will not count?
MIT professor’s study quantifies how many mail-in ballots became “lost votes” in the 2016 U.S. federal election.
MIT community unites for Beirut explosion relief efforts
Lebanese Club at MIT and MIT Arab Alumni Association join forces to raise money for the Beirut Emergency Fund.
How many votes will be counted after election night?
Study measures the “blue shift” from absentee and provisional ballots, underscores uncertainties of 2020 vote.