Art, engineering, and architecture
Freshman seminar inspires students to see the world with fresh eyes.
Featured video: Paint by numbers
Meet Glenn Silva, the man who's been hand-painting names and numbers on MIT doors for over two decades.
![“The whole goal of my life is to fix all the people problems. I sincerely think that the biggest problems we have are how we deal with each other, and how we treat each other. [We need to be] promoting empathy and understanding, and technology is an enormous power to influence that in a good way,” senior Garrett Parrish says.](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201701/A1-MIT-Garrett-Parrish-02.jpg?itok=Dny0_GHc)
Creating “big, beautiful things”
Senior Garrett Parrish combines art and technology, with dramatic effects.
Featured video: Diving into IAP
A look at MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP), a four-week term in January during which community members get creative.
MIT in London
The city offers an ideal home for MIT alumni whose work spans disciplines and continents.
Interstellate: Celebrating the the beauty of neuroscience
Caitlin Vander Weele, a graduate student in brain and cognitive sciences, launches a collaborative neuro-art pictorial magazine.
35 exceptional MIT students are named Burchard Scholars for 2017
Sophomores and juniors who excel in the HASS and STEM fields are honored.
Featured video: David Adjaye's appreciation of the MIT Chapel
World-renowned architect and recent McDermott Award winner describes MIT's Eero Saarinen masterpiece.
"Song of the Human": An origin story
New work by composer Pete M. Wyer draws inspiration from MIT linguistic scholar Shigeru Miyagawa's hypothesis on the origins of human language.
Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove grand prize at Leipzig Festival
CMS/W lecturer and Open Doc Lab fellow wins prestigious documentary filmmaking prize for "Furusato," chronicling effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster.
Face to face with "The Enemy"
Visiting Artist Karim Ben Khelifa creates immersive experiences using virtual and augmented reality to humanize soldiers in global conflicts.
Wiesner Gallery relaunched
Inaugural exhibition in the newly renovated space features work from 20 MIT Arts Scholars.
New faculty, promotions, and leadership roles in the School of Architecture and Planning
Four join the SA+P faculty, while seven are recognized for work in art, architecture, and urbanism.
Sculpture in the Student Center encourages help-seeking
Four students helped launch a campus-wide art installation and shared personal stories of help-seeking, advocacy, and resilience.