"Mens et manus" goes global
MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives program will send students to six continents this summer.
For great challenges, a global strategy
MIT plan outlines new framework for expanding its international engagement.
Q&A: When is giving to charity the wrong thing to do?
MBA student and film producer Mark Weber describes how the foreign aid and charity industries may be holding developing countries down.
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.
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden visits MIT
Swedish delegation tours Institute, participates in dialogue on innovation.
Combined energy and water system could provide for millions
Analysis shows system could economically bring fresh water and renewable energy storage to drought-stricken coastal regions worldwide.
Building connections between the Institute and countries in the Arab world
MISTI’s MIT-Arab World Program supports student and faculty activities with colleagues from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Syria.
Visiting UAE professors describe “life-changing” experiences at MIT
Junior faculty members from Masdar Institute plan to share insights with their own students in Abu Dhabi.
President of Mauritius Ameenah Gurib-Fakim visits MIT
A trained scientist, Gurib-Fakim discusses ways of strengthening ties with Institute.
With peer institutions, MIT files amicus brief against revised travel ban
Ensuring that students and scholars from around the globe can continue to enter the US is vital to universities’ missions, brief argues.
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.
Wisdom gained: A good engineer should have artisan spirit
In a three-day workshop, 60 Beijing high school students build underwater remotely operated vehicles and launch them in the Zesiger pool.
Engaged neighbors
Scholars at MIT and in Mexico collaborate on projects spanning design, technology, and art.