LIFT Program helps Cambridge youth become tomorrow’s changemakers
The Lemelson-MIT/MBK Cambridge program equips local residents with entrepreneurship skills to invent mental health solutions.
3 Questions: Laura Beretsky on living and learning with epilepsy
The MITES grant writer’s new book details her experience with epilepsy and offers lessons for creating a welcoming environment for workers with all kinds of health conditions.
High school students gain skills by working on digital learning materials
MIT Digital Learning Lab and Empowr pilot a new internship program.
Everything, everywhere all at once
Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.
Judgment, reason, and the university
MIT’s Malick Ghachem extends the “Dialogues across Differences” lecture series with a talk about the past and present of university politics.
Celebrating diversity and cultural connections
At a “Heritage Meets Heritage” event, MIT students enjoy conversations, trivia, and delicacies from around the world.
Future Leaders in Aerospace prepares the next generation for research careers
The 2023 symposium offered candid insights and practical advice for aeronautical and astronautical engineers interested in pursuing academia.
Professor Emeritus Willard R. Johnson, political scientist who specialized in African studies, dies at 87
A pioneering Black faculty member, Johnson was also a major supporter of the anti-apartheid movement at the Institute.
The Beaver visits Father Sky: Meet MIT’s First Nations Launch team
MIT Doya blasted their first rocket to a height of 1,290 meters, placing second at the 2023 First Nations Launch contest. The team is now gearing up for a 2024 launch.
Centering feminism
Professor Lerna Ekmekcioglu investigates marginalized women and potential empowerment.
Robert van der Hilst to step down as head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Professor led EAPS for more than a decade, cultivating a focus on Earth systems, planets, climate science, and the origins of life.
The power of representation and connectivity in STEM education
Bridging Talents and Opportunities event serves as an outreach initiative for the Latin community.
Making genetic prediction models more inclusive
MIT computer scientists developed a way to calculate polygenic scores that makes them more accurate for people across diverse ancestries.
Eight high school teams named Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams for 2023-24
In 20 years of uplifting young inventors, the program has enabled 17 InvenTeam projects to earn US patents.
Opening pathways for future supply chain leaders
Maria Jesus Saenz of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics is dedicated to advancing future leaders, and to supporting women, in supply chain management.