DiOnetta Jones Crayton: Change-maker at MIT
For 14 years, Crayton has strengthened programs and created new ones that foster academic success, provide mentoring, prepare students for careers or graduate school, and build community.
Researchers demonstrate rapid 3D printing with liquid metal
Their new technique can produce furniture-sized aluminum parts in only minutes.
Q&A: A blueprint for sustainable innovation
Atacama Biomaterials, co-founded by Paloma Gonzalez-Rojas SM ’15, PhD ’21, combines architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create eco-friendly materials.
Remembering Elise O’Hara, Media Lab staff member
“We feel fortunate to have worked alongside Elise and to have witnessed the remarkable person she was.”
The art of being FLI
The MIT First Generation/Low Income Program provides undergraduates with community, resources, and support as they navigate MIT.
3 Questions: Implementing the MIT Graduate Student Union’s collective bargaining agreement
Ian Waitz describes the three-year contract that will change and enhance MIT’s graduate student policies and procedures.
Co-creating climate futures with real-time data and spatial storytelling
Five multimedia projects communicating climate futures selected for 2023 WORLDING program, online and at MIT.
Inclusive research for social change
The MIT Summer Research Program pairs underrepresented students with opportunities to examine inequity through the IDSS Initiative for Combatting Systemic Racism.
Building technology that empowers city residents
Kwesi Afrifa, a senior majoring in urban planning and computer science, wants to create cultural hubs that are inviting to everyone.
Culturally informed design: Unearthing ingenuity where it always was
Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, a doctoral candidate in media arts and sciences and a MAD Design Fellow, researches how technology and tradition intersect in rural spaces, particularly in Colombia.
The creative future of generative AI
An MIT panel charts how artificial intelligence will impact art and design.
Climate action, here and now
Associate Professor David Hsu examines how people and cities can fight climate change locally — and how MIT can do the same.
Carlo Ratti named curator of 2025 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition
Professor of the practice and innovative scholar of urban design and dynamics will oversee leading global showcase for architectural work.
MIT’s top research stories of 2023
A cheaper water desalination device, a wearable ultrasound scanner, and a new kind of supercapacitor were some of MIT News’ most popular articles.
MIT community in 2023: A year in review
Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential inauguration, international accolades for faculty and students, “Dialogues Across Difference,” new and refreshed community spaces, and more.