MindHandHeart

Melissa Nobles named MIT’s next chancellor

Dean of SHASS will move to senior academic post overseeing student life at the Institute.

June 17, 2021

Q&A: Meditation for Chinese language learners

MIT Global Languages lecturers Panpan Gao and Kang Zhou discuss their meditation videos tailored for Chinese language learners.

June 2, 2021

Targeting the human-related numbers behind remote learning

Senior Fiona Chen combines economics research and student advocacy to study the pandemic’s effect on students.

May 19, 2021

A portion of a screenshot from a Zoom session showing 14 smiling people in a variety of settings. Three had to be cropped out to fit our format.

MindHandHeart Community Innovation Fund supports 77 projects during pandemic

Fund supported by the Office of the Chancellor is advancing mental health, well-being, and racial justice projects at MIT.

March 23, 2021

Side-by-side portrait photos of Ian Waitz and Blanche Staton

3 Questions: Ian Waitz and Blanche Staton on MIT’s continuing commitment to graduate students

Despite the pandemic, the Office of the Vice Chancellor has continued to make progress on efforts to enhance the MIT graduate student experience.

February 19, 2021

Photo of a tie-dye book cover entitled "A Sense of Belonging"

Expressing our immigration stories

The MIT Asian American Initiative designed and produced a digital zine highlighting MIT community members’ histories and heritage.

November 30, 2020

Angela Davis (left) and Blanche Staton in a webcast conversation on Oct. 21.

Activist and scholar Angela Davis addresses racism in MIT webcast

Davis, in conversation with Senior Associate Dean Blanche Staton, fields questions from the MIT community about the current moment of racial reckoning.

October 30, 2020

The newly titled ‘MindHandHeart Community Innovation Fund’ seeks to leverage the creativity and problem-solving skills of MIT students, staff, and faculty to increase awareness about mental health, build communities of support, promote life skills, foster resiliency, and advance diversity, equity, inclusion, and racial justice at MIT.

MindHandHeart announces a record 24 Community Innovation Fund projects

Fund has launched a special summer round to spearhead projects addressing mental health, well-being, and racial justice at MIT.

July 31, 2020

MIT's campus response to the pandemic has informed future modeling and demonstrated how the community can advance its important work even when displaced.

Building a more sustainable MIT — from home

MIT’s Office of Sustainability puts lessons of resiliency into practice.

July 15, 2020

Kyle Filipe working from home. "Our mentality is: keep telling us what you need and we'll keep trying to figure out creative solutions. That’s what [MIT IS&T] did before Covid-19 and that’s what we’ll do long after Covid-19.”

3 Questions: Kyle Filipe on moving MIT online amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Director of IT support services for MIT Information Systems and Technology describes how his unit mobilized to prepare the MIT community for our new virtual landscape.

May 5, 2020