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More than 450 attendees gathered at Benaroya Hall, the home of the Seattle Symphony, for the largest-ever MIT community event in Seattle.

MIT Campaign for a Better World arrives in Seattle

In the Emerald City, alumni, faculty, and friends celebrate MIT’s culture of creativity and innovation for the greater good.

April 26, 2018

Dropbox co-founder and CEO Drew Houston at MIT April 18

From startup to $12 billion: Seven lessons from Dropbox

CEO Drew Houston offers advice for starting and scaling a company.

April 25, 2018

At the MIT Policy Hackathon, interdisciplinary teams worked together to find policy solutions to real societal challenges.

Using data science to improve public policy

MIT Policy Hackathon, run by students within MIT’s Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, seeks interdisciplinary solutions to societal challenges.

April 23, 2018

Speakers included (l-r) Jay Bradner, president of the Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research; Phillip Sharp, MIT Institute Professor; Andrew Plump, chief medical and scientific officer of Takeda; summit organizers and faculty members Regina Barzilay and Dina Katabi from the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield; and Robert Califf, ...

Pioneering digital collaborations

MIT hosts a summit on transformative artificial intelligence technologies in biomedical sciences and health care.

April 10, 2018

2018 Change Makers Honorees (left to right): Professor Timothy Jamison, head of the Department of Chemistry; Michelle Macleod; Chancellor Cynthia Barnhart; Nolan O'Brien; David Dellal; and Molly Bird.

2018 Change Makers honored for their work to combat sexual misconduct

Violence Prevention and Response and Title IX and Bias Response Office celebrate individuals making a difference in the fight to end sexual harassment and assault.

April 10, 2018

Left to right: David Niño, senior lecturer in the MIT Gordon Engineering Leadership Program, moderated a discussion with Ellen Ochoa (center), former astronaut and current director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, and MIT Professor Dava Newman, former NASA deputy administrator, about their experiences as leaders with the U.S. space agency.

Lessons in NASA leadership

Johnson Space Center Director Ellen Ochoa and AeroAstro Professor Dava Newman share experiences as leaders of the U.S. space program.

April 5, 2018

Graduate student Mara Freilich shows MIT Museum Girls Day attendees how plastics and debris become trapped in a gyre.

This is what a scientist looks like

Researchers celebrate women in environmental sciences and engineering at the MIT Museum’s Girls Day.

April 3, 2018

Candis Callison SM ’02 PhD ’10, associate professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of British Columbia Vancouver, will be the guest speaker at MIT’s 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods.

Candis Callison SM '02 PhD '10, professor and award-winning journalist, to speak at 2018 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods

April 3, 2018

MIT Libraries Director Chris Bourg welcomes attendees to the opening keynote speech of the Grand Challenges Summit.

MIT Libraries host Grand Challenges Summit

Experts in information science and scholarly communication convene at MIT to set research agenda.

March 30, 2018

The keynote panel at the 10th annual meeting of the Kendall Square Association (KSA) comprised three members of The Boston Globe’s current Spotlight team (from left): reporter Andrew Ryan, columnist Adrian Walker, and editor Patricia Wen. Panel moderator was Malick W. Ghachem (far right), a professor of history at MIT. The team’s latest seven-part project — titled, “Boston. Racism. Image. ...

KSA meeting puts “Spotlight” on region’s diversity issues

At annual event, Boston Globe’s Spotlight team discusses its latest investigation into racism in Boston.

March 30, 2018

Daniel Kammen, professor of energy at the University of California at Berkeley, spoke on clean energy innovation and implementation in a talk at MIT.

3 Questions: Innovating for the clean energy economy

Daniel Kammen of the University of California at Berkeley discusses current efforts in clean energy innovation and implementation, and what's coming next.

March 28, 2018

President L. Rafael Reif addresses the March 24 "Innovation to Impact" forum, which was hosted by MIT and focused on Saudi Arabia's economy.

MIT hosts Saudi-U.S. innovation forum

Gathering focuses on spurring new directions for economic development.

March 25, 2018

Zeynep Ton, an adjunct associate professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, speaking at the recent 2018 MIT Sustainability Summit, held March 9.

Wanted: More good jobs

MIT faculty and researchers are working on solutions for an economy with too many bad jobs, too few good jobs, and income inequality.

March 21, 2018

World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma delivered the spring 2018 Karl Taylor Compton Lecture on March 19. He was introduced by MIT President L. Rafael Reif.

Yo-Yo Ma calls for “culture in action” to build a better world

Famed cellist delivers MIT’s annual Compton Lecture, adding some musical interludes.

March 20, 2018

The MIT Women's unConference, held March 9-10, was sold out, with nearly 350 registered from 29 states and six countries.

Alumnae unite at MIT Women's unConference

Gathering brings alumni to campus to celebrate women and create connections to further societal changes.

March 19, 2018

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