Deeply respected advisor, educator, mentor, and former department head was a founding member of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change and committed to helping others rise out of poverty.
MIT PhD candidate Jacob Jaffe uses data science to identify and solve problems in election administration.
MIT students team up with Hong Kong students and companies to explore emerging opportunities in fintech.
Graduate Student Council introduces new grad students to MIT with information, community, and interactive activities.
Whether learning about new music or a new culture, PhD student Jamie Wong takes a similar approach: Seek out the experts, then “try to play along and keep up.”
In MIT’s Experiential Ethics summer course, students grapple with real-world ethical decision making, often while interning in the very fields they’re studying.
Professor Emma Teng teamed up with Lead Wellness Instructor Sarah Johnson to create an entirely new type of class at MIT.
Dissatisfied with security guarantees from the US, America’s junior allies want greater control over their own defenses.
International firms sharing production networks lobby together to secure favorable trade conditions.
On its own, a new machine-learning model discovers linguistic rules that often match up with those created by human experts.
John David Minnich seeks to understand how trade policies fueled China’s rise and continue to determine geopolitical winners and losers.
Paul Roquet examines Japan’s position at the leading edge of global trends in personal technology.
In a recent MISTI course, students engaged on collaborative solutions to climate, health care, and economic development in the Middle East.
An expert on US-Iran relations and human security, Tirman was a prolific author and thoughtful colleague and friend.
The alumni-founded GiveDirectly has delivered over $500 million in cash to impoverished people, letting recipients decide how best to meet their needs.