Mobility Systems Center awards four projects for low-carbon transportation research
Topics include Covid-19 and urban mobility, strategies for electric vehicle charging networks, and infrastructure and economics for hydrogen-fueled transportation.
A scientific approach to education reform
Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic have laid bare the need to reinvent education. Sanjay Sarma’s new book points a way.
Thea Keith-Lucas named interim chaplain to the Institute
Search for new full-time chaplain paused due to impact of Covid-19.
3 Questions: Dayna Cunningham on urban planning's role in racial and social justice
Community Innovators Lab will provide hands-on, field-based training to students seeking to address the underlying causes of urban crisis.
How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day.
A SHARP process for populating campus this fall
Student leaders, faculty, and staff contributed to process, values, and decisions.
Meet Lauryn Kortman: Juggling fusion magnets and LED batons
Rising MIT sophomore finds satisfaction designing for the laboratory and the playing field.
Crowdsourced grocery delivery service thrives despite pandemic woes
Philip Kuai MNG '07 leads first fully virtual investor roadshow to bring his company, Dada Group, to an initial public offering in New York.
3 Questions: Eric Klopfer on the meaning of masks
During a pandemic, the mask is a badge of honor, indicating the important role that individuals play in protecting the health of others during a crisis.
MIT shares reopening plans with Cambridge City Council
Representatives detail plans to monitor and manage Covid-19 cases as students prepare to return to campus.
MIT Energy Conference goes virtual
Annual student-run energy conference pivots to successful online event with short notice in response to the coronavirus.
Reorienting graduate student orientation
Graduate Student Council Orientation Committee has been adapting grad orientation to an online format to welcome, inform, and connect new students.
Masks mandates have major impact, study finds
Analysis shows requiring masks for public-facing U.S. business employees on April 1 would have saved tens of thousands of lives.
Blueprint for fall 2020 at MIT
Town Hall for undergraduate students and families outlines plans for the academic year — and the rationale behind key decisions.
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.