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Report: How interactive documentaries represent a new form of innovation in digital journalism

MIT report represents the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.

November 19, 2015

During excavation for MIT.nano, the Department of Facilities unearthed an unexpected relic between buildings 12 and 26: a time capsule buried on June 5, 1957, to commemorate the opening of the Karl Taylor Compton Laboratories.

Relic from last century

Time capsule buried in 1957 unearthed during excavation for MIT.nano.

November 17, 2015

Maria Zuber, MIT vice president for research and the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics

3 Questions: Maria Zuber on MIT’s climate action plan

MIT’s vice president for research looks ahead to implementation.

November 17, 2015

"Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age" (Penguin Press) by Sherry Turkle (pictured)

3 Questions: Sherry Turkle on “Reclaiming Conversation”

MIT professor talks about our need for face-to-face dialogue, in families, classrooms, and workplaces.

November 17, 2015

The Hunt for Vulcan (Penguin Random House) by Thomas Levenson (pictured)

3Q: Thomas Levenson on the hunt for Vulcan, the missing planet

New book details the scientific search for a planet — before Albert Einstein halted the quest.

November 3, 2015

Students and faculty from MIT accept their Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities award.

MIT receives national recognition from the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities

The Institute tops a cadre of 105 schools for “extraordinary efforts” in advancing the association’s mission.

October 29, 2015

Rub' al Khali desert in the Arabian Peninsula

Study: Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat

Detailed climate simulation shows a threshold of survivability could be crossed without mitigation measures.

October 26, 2015

Rinku Sen, president and executive director of Race Forward: The Center for Racial Justice Innovation, speaks at “Whose Lives Matter?: A Community Conversation with Rinku Sen about the Black Lives Matter Movement and Beyond."

Talking about race

In MIT visit, Rinku Sen discusses Black Lives Matter, and how to have a productive conversation about race in America.

October 20, 2015

This image of the National Palace in Haiti is one of many Airborne Ladar Imaging Research Testbed (ALIRT) images taken just after the 2010 earthquake devastated parts of the island.

Technology confronts disasters

Research and development at MIT Lincoln Laboratory will help agencies better respond to disasters and humanitarian crises.

October 20, 2015

3Q: Cynthia Barnhart on progress to prevent sexual assault at MIT

A year after the release of a pioneering survey, chancellor discusses steps MIT has taken to date.

October 15, 2015

Three people speaking around computer at desk

Cultivating ‘out-of-the box’ thinking in undergraduate education

The Alex and Brit d’Arbeloff Fund for Excellence in Education seeks preliminary proposals to enhance the educational experiences of undergraduates.

October 15, 2015

Alan Stern, principal investigator of NASA’s New Horizons mission to the Kuiper belt, spoke at ScienceWriters2015 about mission results from a Pluto flyby in July and communications strategies.

Bringing “the greatest show in the universe” to the people

MIT hosts national ScienceWriters2015 conference.

October 15, 2015

Cecilia Warpinski Stuopis ’90 named director of MIT Medical

Physician and vice president at Dartmouth-Hitchcock health system will join MIT later this year.

October 13, 2015

David Mindell and the cover of “Our Robots, Ourselves” (Viking/Penguin)

Robots and us

Should cars be fully driverless? No, says an MIT engineer and historian.

October 13, 2015

J. Meejin Yoon honored with Women in Architecture award

Architect, designer, and artist honored for leadership in architectural practice.

October 7, 2015

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