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A new way to measure women’s and girls’ empowerment in impact evaluations

Guide developed by J-PAL aims to improve women’s and girls’ empowerment worldwide and reduce bias and other gender-based inequalities.

July 17, 2018

Techstars Impact, a new accelerator, has accepted three MIT-incubated ventures and their founders: (l-r) Nick Gomez and Cory Siskind (Base Operations); Genevieve Barnard Oni and Soga Oni (MDaaS Global); and Nisheeth Singh, Anirudh Sharma, and Nitesh Kadyan (Graviky Labs).

Three MIT-incubated ventures chosen for first Techstars Impact class

Base Operations, MDaaS Global, and Graviky Labs will head to Texas to be part of the first class at the new elite accelerator.

July 12, 2018

J-PAL North America’s Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition supports education leaders in using randomized evaluations to generate evidence on how technology can improve student learning, particularly for students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

J-PAL North America’s Education, Technology, and Opportunity Innovation Competition announces inaugural partners

July 6, 2018

“Innovation is born of openness to futures that are not easily imaginable," says Caley Horan, assistant professor of history. "History reminds us that many ideas, institutions, and organizational structures that now seem natural and inevitable did not always exist. In doing so, it throws open the door to boundless possibility.”

3 Questions: Historian Caley Horan on the rise of private insurance in the U.S.

Assistant professor explores how risk sharing and mutual aid shifted to individual forms of protection.

July 3, 2018

Ken Wang ’71 rebuilt the Pound Ridge Golf Course as an 18-hole course in 2008.

Building the green

Ken Wang ’71, MIT Corporation member and former MIT Alumni Association president, developed one of America’s premier modern golf courses.

June 29, 2018

“What we discovered is, very little [Medicare] money is spent on people who we know with high probability are going to die in a short amount of time,” says Amy Finkelstein, a professor in MIT’s Department of Economics and co-author of a paper in the journal Science.

The value of late-in-life health care spending

Study debunks notion that large chunks of Medicare go to futile end-of-life care.

June 28, 2018

“People usually think MIT is exclusively focused on STEM research," says PhD student Elena Sobrino. "I saw this program, HASTS, as a way to be in conversation with physical or biological scientists, as a social scientist myself.”

Discovering hidden stories in the Flint water crisis

Graduate student Elena Sobrino looks beyond the headlines to study interactions between the city’s people and institutions.

June 24, 2018

“Teaching is complementary with research,” says economics professor Alberto Abadie. “When you need to explain material that you believe you understand very well, that is when the real test is."

Method man

Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.

June 18, 2018

Jamshied Sharifi, winner of the Tony Award for Best Orchestrations for “The Band's Visit”

In profile: Jamshied Sharifi ’83, Tony Award winner

Composer, musician, and former MIT visiting artist received a 2018 Tony Award for best orchestrations on “The Band's Visit.”

June 15, 2018

MIT has identified the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse as a potential new location for the School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P). The proposed move would let the Institute create a new hub for design research and education, allow the school to expand its full range of activities, and open new spaces for public use.

Metropolitan Storage Warehouse is potential new location for School of Architecture and Planning

Historic building would create “design hub” for MIT, with benefits for surrounding community.

June 14, 2018

Through a set of four online courses developed by MIT faculty and delivered on edX, students will learn, implement, and experiment with data analysis techniques and machine learning algorithms.

MITx MicroMasters Program in Statistics and Data Science opens enrollment

Program offers path to an accelerated master’s degree at seven universities.

June 11, 2018

Graduates celebrated at MIT’s Investiture of Doctoral Hoods, June 7, 2018.

At doctoral hooding ceremony, a call to make the world “more just, more fair”

Candis Callison SM ’02, PhD ’10, professor and journalist, tells doctoral graduates they can “shift society” for the better.

June 7, 2018

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2018-19

Ranked at the top for the seventh straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 of 48 disciplines.

June 6, 2018

“The Logs has been the utmost formative experience of my college education,” says MIT senior Shaun Datta, at center performing with his fellow MIT Logarhythms. “We try to leave the rest of our thoughts and distractions at the door, so we can be very focused, and to give us a reprieve from the other things we’re working on.”

Quantum physics student leaving MIT on a high note

Math and physics major Shaun Datta wraps up four years of pushing himself beyond his comfort zone by singing a cappella with the MIT Logarhythms.

June 5, 2018

Celebrating a new MIT-Belgium partnership: (standing, l to r) Vincent Blondel, April Julich Perez, Molly Schneider, Cathy Culot, and Peter Lievens; (seated, l to r) Richard Lester and Luc Sels.

Unity makes strength: MIT expands ties with Belgium

Belgian researchers once split by language come together to reinforce a future with MIT.