Education, teaching, academics

“I have worked on a number of research projects over the years, but the work we did on the Parasocial Contact Hypothesis is the most important work I have ever done," says Edward Schiappa, the John E. Burchard Professor of the Humanities, and head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing. "Winning this award is terrific acknowledgement of the value of the years we spent on that research.”

Edward Schiappa receives the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award

Test-of-time award recognizes work that has stimulated new conceptualizations of communication phenomena.

December 19, 2016

The fifteen teams that made their pitches included MIT faculty, students, and alumni. Participants came from every major unit of the School of Architecture and Planning, as well as the MIT Sloan School of Management and the Schools of Science and Engineering.

DesignX selects first cohort

Eight student teams join MIT’s newest entrepreneurship accelerator.

December 14, 2016

Now in its 21st year, the “product engineering processes” class led by David Wallace is designed to give its students a strong sense of what’s involved in taking a product all the way from brainstorming ideas, through preliminary design and testing, to a final, fully functional product design and a basic business plan.

Student product ideas range from lifesaving to just plain fun

Finale of mechanical engineering class unveils wide variety of ingenious new product concepts.

December 13, 2016

Ahmed Ghoniem and graduate students (left); Katherine Kellogg and graduate students

Professors Ghoniem and Kellogg honored as Committed to Caring

These generous professors put students first, support in both large and small ways.

December 12, 2016

Professor Mark Jarzombek (right) discusses curriculum issues with other architectural historians and university instructors at an annual meeting of the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative.

School of Architecture and Planning receives $1.5 million grant from Mellon Foundation

Grant continues support for the Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative.

November 30, 2016

MIT senior Brian Wanek wears a racing helmet inside a prototype of what will be the driver’s seat in the 2017 MIT Formula SAE car as sophomore Wasay Anwer measures the frame.

Harder, better, faster, stronger

The MIT Formula SAE team takes a great leap forward to build their 2017 race car.

November 29, 2016

Professor Hung Cheng pledges $1 million for a new MIT scholarship

Inspired by writing his novel, "Nanjing Never Cries," Cheng hopes scholarship helps MIT students work toward a better world.

November 29, 2016

Dennis Frenchman, the Class of 1922 Professor of Urban Design and Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.

3Q: Dennis Frenchman on the rise of innovation districts in Cambridge and beyond

MIT professor explains how “productive neighborhoods” can remake cities.

November 28, 2016

Clockwise from top left: Kevin Zhou; Matthew Cavuto; Zach Hulcher; and Daniel Zuo

Four MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars

Matthew Cavuto, Zachary Hulcher, Kevin Zhou, and Daniel Zuo will pursue two years of study in the U.K.

November 28, 2016

Members of the MITili and pK-12 Action Group convene to discuss learning and research directions.

Enhancing education from pre-K to MIT and beyond

Two new initiatives take an in-depth look at learning.

November 23, 2016

Materials scientist Jeffrey Grossman lectures to a full house of first-year students in his popular version of a core course, 3.091 (Introduction to Solid State Chemistry). Earlier this year, he was honored with a MacVicar Award for exceptional undergraduate teaching.

Solid-state learning

First-year students get a spirited introduction to materials science and chemistry from Professor Jeffrey Grossman.

November 18, 2016

Michale Fee and Elizabeth Nolan win Teaching Prizes for Graduate and Undergraduate Education

School of Science faculty members honored for excellence in teaching.

November 1, 2016

MIT Vice President for Open Learning Sanjay Sarma (right) hosts Charles Chen Yidan of the Yidan Prize Foundation to announce MIT as a nominator for the Yidan Prize.

Yidan Prize for Education Research and Education Development announced at MIT

MIT was the first stop on a world tour for the Yidan Prize Foundation's launch of a new $3.9 million education award.

October 31, 2016

MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief and publisher Jason Pontin moderates a panel with semifinalists in the Solve: Learn crowdsourced ideas contest.

Improving educational opportunities for refugee youth around the world

Three proposals in MIT Solve's “Learn” pillar advance to finals.

October 26, 2016

The 2016-2017 MIT-Lemelson InvenTeams hail from around the United States.

High school teams awarded 2016-17 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects

Fifteen student teams nationwide set sights on inventing solutions to real-world problems.

October 25, 2016

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