The chemistry of creativity
Senior Madison Wang blends science, history, and art to probe how the world works and the tools we use to explore and understand it.
Martina Solano Soto wants to solve the mysteries of the universe, and MIT Open Learning is part of her plan
The 17-year-old student from Spain uses MIT resources to deepen her understanding of math and physics.
Luna: A moon on Earth
MIT students and faculty designed and fabricated a control room for the first lunar landing mission since the Apollo era — an achievement in design and engineering.
MIT D-Lab spinout provides emergency transportation during childbirth
Moving Health has developed an emergency transportation network using motorized ambulances in rural regions of Ghana.
“Biomedical Lab in a Box” empowers engineers in low- and middle-income countries
Through workshops based on an MIT class, students in Kenya and Uganda gained hands-on experience engineering medical hardware.
Enhancing the future of teaching and learning at MIT
The MIT Festival of Learning sparked discussions on better integrating a sense of purpose and social responsibility into hands-on education.
Special subject invites first-year students to get their feet wet working with underwater vehicles
2.S01 (Introduction to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles) creates a learning environment where every student handles a robot.
Bringing manufacturing back to America, one fab lab at a time
A collaborative network of makerspaces has spread from MIT across the country, helping communities make their own products.
The human body, its movement, and music
Connected by the MIT Human Insight Collaborative, Lecturer Mi-Eun Kim and Research Scientist Praneeth Namburi want to develop an understanding of musical expression and skill development.
Tabletop factory-in-a-box makes hands-on manufacturing education more accessible
Inaugural cohort of Tecnológico de Monterrey undergraduates participate in immersive practicum at MIT featuring desktop fiber-extrusion devices, or FrEDs.
For this computer scientist, MIT Open Learning was the start of a life-changing journey
Ana Trišović, who studies the democratization of AI, reflects on a career path that she began as a student downloading free MIT resources in Serbia.
Preparing for a career at the forefront of the aerospace industry
In a new class, students design, build, and test an electric turbopump for a rocket engine, facing challenges they will experience as practicing engineers.
A collaboration across continents to solve a plastics problem
MIT students travel to the Amazon, working with locals to address the plastics sustainability crisis.
A leg up for STEM majors
MIT undergraduates broaden their perspectives and prospects through political science.
A personalized heart implant wins MIT Sloan health care prize
Spheric Bio’s implants are designed to grow in a channel of the heart to better fit the patient’s anatomy and prevent strokes.