3 Questions: Bridging anthropology and engineering for clean energy in Mongolia
Anthropologists Manduhai Buyandelger and Lauren Bonilla discuss the humanistic perspective they bring to a project that is yielding promising results.
Q&A: A new initiative to help strengthen democracy
David Singer, head of the MIT Department of Political Science, discusses the Strengthening Democracy Initiative, focused on the rigorous study of elections, public opinion, and political participation.
MIT launches new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program
The program will invite students to investigate new vistas at the intersection of music, computing, and technology.
MIT course helps researchers crack secrets of ancient pottery
A summer class teaches PhD students and early-career archaeologists ceramic petrography, revealing the origins and production methods of past societies.
Improving biology education here, there, and everywhere
At the cutting edge of pedagogy, Mary Ellen Wiltrout has shaped blended and online learning at MIT and beyond.
MIT OpenCourseWare sparks the joy of deep understanding
With the help of MIT’s online resources, Doğa Kürkçüoğlu, now a staff scientist at Fermilab, was able to pursue his passion for physics.
MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders
Through MIT’s 2N Program and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, active duty naval officers gain the technical skills they need to lead projects in the Navy.
Tools for making imagination blossom at MIT.nano
New STUDIO.nano supports artistic research and encounters within MIT.nano’s facilities.
For developing designers, there’s magic in 2.737 (Mechatronics)
Mechatronics combines electrical and mechanical engineering, but above all else it’s about design.
How MIT’s online resources provide a “highly motivating, even transformative experience”
Charalampos Sampalis explores all that MIT Open Learning has to offer while growing his career in Athens, Greece.
Students learn theater design through the power of play
MIT Theater faculty invite students to draw upon their personal experiences to create evocative set, sound, and lighting designs.
Making a measurable economic impact
Saeed Miganeh’s work at MIT is helping him answer important questions about designing effective programs for poverty mitigation and economic growth in African countries.
Lincoln Laboratory and National Strategic Research Institute launch student research program to tackle biothreats to national security
MIT students who participated in the pilot program developed tools to rapidly screen for novel biosynthetic capabilities.
D-Lab off-grid brooder saves chicks and money using locally manufactured thermal batteries
The innovation, which employs beeswax to maintain consistent heating, is the result of three years of co-design with Cameroonian poultry farmers.
