Junior Ruben Alonzo named Truman Scholar
Economics major among approximately 60 students nationwide selected as winners of the $30,000 graduate scholarship
Rough calculations
Sanjoy Mahajan’s new book, Street-Fighting Mathematics, lays out practical tools for educated guessing and down-and-dirty problem-solving
Revised HASS requirement takes effect in fall 2010 for incoming freshmen
Requirement is designed to prepare MIT students for leadership contributions, lifelong learning
Homework copying can turn As into Cs, Bs into Ds
MIT physics educators investigate a bad habit’s perils — and demonstrate a solution.
Weather in a Tank
A curriculum built around a rotating-tank experiment could improve weather and climate education
Four professors named 2010 MacVicar Faculty Fellows
Hosoi, Rajagopal, Ram and Richards honored for excellence in undergraduate teaching
Remembering Leo Osgood
MLK breakfast will honor former associate dean, director of the Office of Minority Education and men's basketball coach
Can a game save the world?
New game will teach students collaboration skills--and might help fix climate change in the process
MIT signs formal agreement with Singapore University of Technology and Design
President Hockfield lauds new university’s ‘distinctive vision’
Top high school students compete in Blue Lobster Bowl at MIT
Massachusetts high schools students match wits to answer quick buzzer questions and more complex team challenge questions in areas such as biology, marine science, chemistry, and ocean engineering.
MIT Professional Education delivers its first course in India
This week, MIT Professional Education is conducting its first-ever three-day course in India, “Airport and Airline Systems: Planning, Design and Management,” as part of the program’s new international outreach initiative.
Mind, Hand — and Stomach: East Campus learns how to cook
Victoria Davenport, senior administrative assistant to the Dean for Student Life, offers her professional culinary skills in a cooking class for the students of East Campus.
Four Weeks for America launches its third IAP challenge
MIT students will spend IAP building the capacity of America’s underserved schools