Special events and guest speakers

The TechCon conference, hosted by MIT and USAID's Higher Education Solutions Network from Nov. 10 - 12, convened researchers and innovators to collaborate on solving global issues.

At TechCon, science-based solutions for world issues

Innovators and researchers tackle global issues through actionable research and collaboration.

November 15, 2016

A capacity crowd at the New England Aquarium's Omni Theater enjoyed the 2016 John H. Carlson Lecture, "Big Ice: Antarctica, Greenland, and Boston," presented by Penn State University Professor Richard Alley.

Big ice, big science

Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate.

November 14, 2016

On Nov. 2, more than 800 MIT alumni and friends gathered in San Francisco for the second in a series of regional events in support of the MIT Campaign for a Better World.

Record-setting crowd celebrates the MIT Campaign for a Better World at San Francisco’s City Hall

Hong Kong will be the next stop on MIT's Better World global tour.

November 7, 2016

MIT Vice President for Open Learning Sanjay Sarma (right) hosts Charles Chen Yidan of the Yidan Prize Foundation to announce MIT as a nominator for the Yidan Prize.

Yidan Prize for Education Research and Education Development announced at MIT

MIT was the first stop on a world tour for the Yidan Prize Foundation's launch of a new $3.9 million education award.

October 31, 2016

“If we hope for serious solutions to the world’s great challenges, we need to make sure the innovators working on those problems see a realistic pathway to the marketplace,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif said at an Oct. 26 event celebrating the launch of The Engine.

Revving up The Engine for global change

“At MIT, it is our duty to bring transformative innovation to the world,” President Reif said at launch event for new enterprise.

October 28, 2016

Grad student Juliana Philippa Kerrest drops a marble into the “Helping You, Helping Others” glass sculpture in the Student Center as a visible testament to personal experiences of help-seeking at MIT.

Sculpture in the Student Center encourages help-seeking

Four students helped launch a campus-wide art installation and shared personal stories of help-seeking, advocacy, and resilience.

October 27, 2016

MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief and publisher Jason Pontin moderates a panel with semifinalists in the Solve: Learn crowdsourced ideas contest.

Improving educational opportunities for refugee youth around the world

Three proposals in MIT Solve's “Learn” pillar advance to finals.

October 26, 2016

MIT President L. Rafael Reif shared his vision for the future of MIT with more than 600 alumni and friends of the Institute at a New York City gathering in support of the MIT Campaign for a Better World. "Tonight, we ask everyone here to join us in the challenge," he said.

Hundreds join President Reif in NYC to celebrate MIT’s community and mission

San Francisco will be the next stop on MIT's Better World global tour.

October 25, 2016

Solve at HUBweek took place at the MIT Media Lab on Sept. 27 and 28. Participants selected online through an open innovation platform pitched their ideas for meeting a range of challenges, from removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to educating children in refugee camps around the world.

Sparking conversations, spurring solutions

Solve and HUBweek bring together cutting-edge thinkers and doers, from Greater Boston and beyond.

October 21, 2016

This desalination plant in Israel, called Sorek, is currently the world's largest, producing 625,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day. Boris Liberman, chief technology officer of IDE Technologies, the company that built this and several other huge desalination plants in Israel and California, was among the speakers at MIT's Low Carbon Desalination Workshop, which explored the potential for redu...

How to achieve “green” desalination

Workshop explores ways to reduce or eliminate the carbon footprint of seawater desalination plants.

October 19, 2016

2016 MassJAS presenters: (left to right) Alex Jayyosi, Aarushi Pendharkar, Christine Schremp, Tal Usvyatsky, Emma Kelly, Mary Zgurzynski, Evan Mizerak, and Natasha Garland.

From MIT to the national stage

MassJAS Symposium at MIT selects talented high school students to showcase their science research at the 2017 AAAS annual meeting.

October 13, 2016

CNBC's Eamon Javers (left) with Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan (center) and former NSA counsel Rajesh De.

Cambridge Cyber Summit convenes industry, academia, and government

Hosted by CSAIL, event featured discussions on cybersecurity with tech leaders and officials from the NSA and FBI.

October 12, 2016

MIT Professor Bengt Holmström speaks with reporters after a press conference describing his newly-minted status as a Nobel laureate.

Scene at MIT: New Nobel laureate

October 12, 2016

Jessika Trancik, associate professor of energy studies at MIT, will present at the annual Materials Day Symposium.

Batteries power clean energy transformation

Materials Day Symposium will highlight strong potential to cut greenhouse gases with electric cars, solar and wind energy storage.

October 6, 2016

Elizabeth Sheehan, CEO of Climate Smart, receives the $10,000 grand prize from MIT professor and Climate CoLab founder Thomas Malone.

MIT Climate CoLab awards innovative climate proposals, presents $10,000 prize

Climate CoLab uses a crowd-based approach to surface high-potential proposals for climate change projects.

October 4, 2016

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