New seed fund to address food, water, and agriculture in India
MIT-India, J-WAFS, and the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar launch fund to facilitate collaborations between faculty and scientists from MIT and ITT Ropar.
Hala Aldosari joins the MIT Center for International Studies as Wilhelm Fellow
Saudi scholar and activist will conduct research on political and civil reforms in Saudi Arabia.
MIT-Lockheed Martin Seed Fund launches
Collaboration between Lockheed Martin and MISTI will enable MIT faculty and students to collaborate, research, and intern in Israel, Germany, and beyond.
MIT faculty launch collaborations around the world
MISTI Global Seed Funds program awards another $2 million to researchers across the Institute.
Cultivating collaboration and innovation between MIT and Denmark
New MIT-Denmark program is poised to send its first students overseas for internships and research.
Co-designing assistive technologies in India
MIT students connect with premier Indian institutes, hospitals, and students to collaborate on “humanistic” assistive design.
After the Cold War, an uncertain peace
In MIT talk, Michael McFaul, former U.S. ambassador to Russia, explores tensions between the two countries.
Israeli and Palestinian architects and planners seek common ground on innovation, entrepreneurship
Visiting fellows engage with students in the School of Architecture and Planning to create startups aimed at social impact.
Learning to study a painful past
Lerna Ekmekçioğlu studies pioneering Armenian women of the 19th and 20th centuries — and helps other scholars enter her field.
Populism: a case-by-case study
MIT Starr Forum panel discusses extreme forms of populism that have endangered basic civil liberties and spawned intolerant rhetoric.
Novelist Min Jin Lee makes the case for understanding through fiction
At MIT event, “Pachinko” author talks about literature as a way of understanding outsiders in modern culture.
Starting new conversations about identity abroad
New MISTI programs provide a platform for student dialogue on diversity in international travel, study, and work.
MIT-Germany and the University of Stuttgart extend cooperation
Collaboration extends opportunities for faculty seed funds, internship opportunities, and a Global Teaching Labs program through 2020.
An assault on American intelligence
In MIT visit, former CIA and NSA director Michael Hayden describes current difficulties faced by society and U.S. intelligence services.
New partnership between MIT-Germany and the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg
MIT-Germany expands student internship and Global Teaching Labs opportunities, and establishes the MIT-FAU Seed Fund for faculty.