3 Questions: Alan Spoon '73 on fostering leadership for MIT students
Founder of Community Catalyst Leadership Program discusses coaching relationships and skill development.
Writing and Communication Center marks 30 years
Thousands of community members served in one-on-one consultations.
Anthropologist Silbey receives award for research on forging safety in science labs
Aligning ideals and real-world conditions
MIT launches student-produced educational video initiative
Original short videos, in collaboration with Khan Academy, aim to fuel K-12 students’ interest in engineering and science.
Time magazine names Lo, Sadoway among the world’s ‘most influential’ people
Several MIT alumni also named to annual list.
Buckle in
Inspired by a toy, the ‘buckliball’ — a collapsible structure fabricated from a single piece of material — represents a new class of 3-D, origami-like structures.
Help MIT recognize the best of MIT
Nominations now being accepted for the 2012 Institute Awards Convocation; deadline pushed back to March 26.
Sloan PhD student walks the walk in sustainability
Parrot helped accelerate sustainability efforts at the Institute alongside academic work.
Men’s basketball Final Four ticket information
Limited allotment available through MIT; fans can also go through the Salem Civic Center box office.
Corporation names members of Presidential Search Committee
Panel includes 12 members of the Corporation and 10 faculty members; six students named to Student Advisory Committee.
Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88
Developed many of the experimental techniques that are now standard practice in high-energy physics
MathWorks makes multi-year sponsorship commitment to MIT OpenCourseWare
Joins Dow Chemical and Lockheed Martin in OCW Next Decade Alliance to support global educational opportunity.