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MIT Euro-Club and MISTI officials celebrate a milestone: (left to right) the Euro-Club's Xiaoyu Wu, Susanna Bachle, Katrin Michel, Karine Ip, and Giulio Alighieri; MISTI's Tanya Raymond, Alicia Goldstein Raun, Serenella Sferza, and Erin Schenck.

A unique partnership

The MIT European Club surpasses $200,000 mark in support of MISTI fellowships.

June 21, 2017

The proximity of the new headquarters of the Advanced Functional Fabrics of America (AFFOA) Institute to MIT's campus will help connect students and faculty to new facilities, including the Fabric Discovery Center that provides end-to-end prototyping from fiber design to system integration of new textile-based products.

Advanced Functional Fabrics of America opens headquarters steps from MIT campus

New AFFOA facility represents a significant MIT investment in advanced manufacturing innovation.

June 19, 2017

Marty Ellis, of Inman Mills in South Carolina, checks a machine manufacturing fabric developed through AFFOA.

AFFOA launches state-of-the-art facility for prototyping advanced fabrics

New center for development of high-tech fibers and fabrics opens headquarters, unveils two products ready for commercialization.

June 19, 2017

The MIT AgeLab and Toyota CSRC set up a camera system at a busy Cambridge intersection to study minute details of pedestrian movements.

AgeLab researching autonomous vehicle systems in ongoing collaboration with Toyota

Innovative MIT research focuses on developing systems to perceive and identify objects in their environment and understand social interactions in traffic.

June 8, 2017

The student-run MIT-China Innovation and Entrepreneurship Forum (MIT-CHIEF) announced a collaboration with the MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node to launch a new program, Co-founder’s Journey.

MIT-CHIEF launches Co-founder’s Journey

New on-site program will connect MIT startup teams with advanced manufacturing resources in China’s Pearl River Delta area.

June 6, 2017

Breaking through gridlock: Productive conversations in a polarized world

A Mens et Manus America conversation with Jason Jay reveals research on how to have meaningful conversations with people holding opposing viewpoints.

June 5, 2017

MIT Press is known for publishing interdisciplinary scholarship that crosses traditional boundaries. The Internet Archive has begun digitizing MIT Press’ backlist; 1,500 deep backlist works should be available by the end of 2017.

MIT Press teams with Internet Archive and Arcadia to provide access to hundreds of backlist titles

Press' first major digitization endeavor ushers in a new era of access.

May 30, 2017

Top row: (l-r) Julia Angwin, Farai Chideya, Isha Datar. Middle row: (l-r) Adam Foss, Andrea Lauer, Leland Melvin. Bottom row: (l-r) Jamila Raqib, Esra’a Al Shafei, Gavin Zhao.

Media Lab announces 2017 Director’s Fellows

Nine new Director’s Fellows bring their diverse experiences to a global network empowered by technology created at the MIT Media Lab.

May 30, 2017

Participants at Sustainability Connect 2017 engaged in a workshop to explore what kinds of sustainability goals MIT might set in the future, on topics ranging from resilient buildings to food systems.

Sustainability Connect 2017 brings MIT together to balance needs of the present and future

Third annual conference explores innovation, social justice, and the Institute as a living lab for sustainability.

May 26, 2017

"The new frontier is learning how to design the relationships between people, robots, and infrastructure," says David Mindell, the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and a professor of aeronautics and astronautics. "We need new sensors, new software, new ways of architecting systems."

Q&A: On the future of human-centered robotics

Professor David Mindell, who researches the interaction between automation and human behavior, discusses the interdependence of people, robots, and infrastructure.

May 15, 2017

Text "MISTI Global Seed Funds" with url below atop circle design background

MISTI faculty funds: 2017-18 call for proposals

MISTI Global Seed Funds support MIT’s global engagement by promoting collaborations between MIT faculty members and their counterparts abroad.

May 15, 2017

Zhu Zhenqi (left), president of ENN Energy Research Institute, and Robert Armstrong, director of the MIT Energy Initiative, sign the agreement for ENN's membership in MITEI's Center for Energy Storage Research.

ENN Group becomes MIT Energy Initiative member to advance energy storage technologies

ENN Group, one of China’s largest private energy companies, will join MITEI’s Center for Energy Storage Research.

April 13, 2017

MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield spoke at the Iconic Voices from MIT public lecture series on March 21, at the Singapore University of Technology Design. She was joined for a Q&A by SUTD President and MIT Institute Professor Thomas Magnanti.

In 30 years, can we sustainably meet the needs of 9.5 billion people?

President Emerita Susan Hockfield speaks at the Iconic Voices from MIT lecture organized by the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

March 28, 2017

“The greatest honor in my professional career has been to serve as the first JR East Professor and for 25 years of my career,” said JR East Professor Joseph Sussman at the 25th anniversary of the JR East-MIT partnership.

Celebrating 25 years of MIT-JR East Railway partnership

Professor Joseph Sussman honored for his 25 years of service as JR East Professor

March 27, 2017

Professor Moshe Ben-Akiva presented his research on smart mobility at the Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Transportation Workshop. The event was part of a collaboration between MIT and Parsons Corporation.

At the intersection of industry and academia

Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Transportation Workshop sheds light on collaboration opportunities between MIT and Parsons Corporation.

March 22, 2017

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