MIT faculty, instructors, students experiment with generative AI in teaching and learning
At MIT’s Festival of Learning 2024, panelists stressed the importance of developing critical thinking skills while leveraging technologies like generative AI.
MIT Emerging Talent opens pathways for underserved global learners
Learners across 24 countries build technical and employment skills in a collaborative community.
Study demonstrates efficacy of MIT-led Brave Behind Bars program
Programming course for incarcerated people boosts digital literacy and self-efficacy, highlighting potential for reduced recidivism.
Professor Emeritus Bernhardt Wuensch, crystallographer and esteemed educator, dies at 90
A pioneer in solid-state ionics and materials science education, Wuensch is remembered for his thoughtful scholarship and grace in teaching and mentoring.
Heather Paxson named associate dean for faculty of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
In her new role, the professor of anthropology will seek to promote well-being and advancement within the SHASS community.
New major crosses disciplines to address climate change
Combining engineering, earth system science, and the social sciences, Course 1-12 prepares students to develop climate solutions.
Knight Science Journalism Program launches HBCU Science Journalism Fellowship
The fellowship will incubate early-career science journalists, providing them with a year of skill-building freelance experience and dedicated mentorship.
A crossroads for computing at MIT
The MIT Schwarzman College of Computing building will form a new cluster of connectivity across a spectrum of disciplines in computing and artificial intelligence.
Training manufacturing technologists to be future shop floor leaders
New curriculum from MIT and collaborating institutions aims to give technicians a ladder to become shop-floor leaders — “technologists” who bridge the gap between technicians and engineers.
Is it the school, or the students?
Study shows perceptions of “good” schools are heavily dependent on the preparation of the students entering them.
A revolutionary, bold educational endeavor for Belize
Itz’at STEAM Academy, an effort between MIT and the Belize Ministry of Education, Culture, Science, and Technology, pushes the boundaries of education through innovative methodologies.
For MIT students, there is much to learn from crafting a chair
In class 4.500 (Design Computation), Professor Larry Sass teaches the thoughtful and experimental process of design through the familiar idea of a chair, while exploring “foundational technologies.”
3 Questions: Progress on updating MIT’s undergraduate curriculum
Professors Adam Martin and Joel Volman explain the genesis, scope, and objectives of the recently launched Task Force on the MIT Undergraduate Academic Program.
2024 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Professors Berggren, Campbell, Pollock, and Vaikuntanathan are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
“Imagine it, build it” at MIT
In class 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II) a hands-on approach provides the skills engineers use to create and solve problems.