MIT community stands with Ukraine at candlelight rally
Hundreds gather in solidarity with MIT’s Ukrainian community while MIT offers support.
MIT Center for Real Estate launches the Asia Real Estate Initiative
New effort empowers MIT researchers to shape real estate’s future and build responsibly and sustainably.
Student-led MIT course provides an inside look at K-pop
Artists and industry professionals including AleXa join the online course, offering insights into Korean pop music.
Innovating delivery of financial services for Asian banks
MIT students collaborate with Hong Kong peers to propose fintech solutions during the MIT Entrepreneurship and Fintech Integrator.
“To make even the smallest contribution to improving my country would be my dream”
Master’s student Pavarin Bhandtivej seeks to bring data to bear on policymaking in Thailand.
New directions in real estate practice
Professor Siqi Zheng promotes sustainable urbanization at MIT’s Center for Real Estate.
E-scooters as a new micro-mobility service
SMART researchers explore the potential of e-scooter sharing as a replacement for short-distance transit in Singapore.
Taking an indirect path into a bright future
Matthew Johnston ’20 uses physics and baseball skills to get remote villages on the grid.
Searching for truth in data from authoritarian regimes
PhD student Minh Trinh studies misreporting of government statistics and the effect on accountability in his home country of Vietnam.
MIT students and alumni “hack” Hong Kong Kowloon East
Activating technology for urban life with a virtual site visit to Hong Kong in collaboration with the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.
A searching discussion about being Asian American at MIT
Panel explores the complexities of Asian American identity and recognition, at the Institute and in higher education.
Global Languages announces new HASS concentration in Korean
The new concentration extends the options for Asian languages at MIT, which also include Japanese and Mandarin.
Standing in solidarity with the AAPI community
Candles lit up Killian Court and Kresge Oval to recognize the 3,795-plus reported hate incidents over the course of the pandemic.
3 Questions: Emma Teng on anti-Asian American violence in the US
MIT historian, and scholar of assimilation and exclusion, surveys the deeper history behind the current crisis.
Transforming lives by providing safe drinking water
MIT’s Susan Murcott is dedicated to providing clean water access and building a new generation of humanitarian water leaders.