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Kyle Filipe working from home. "Our mentality is: keep telling us what you need and we'll keep trying to figure out creative solutions. That’s what [MIT IS&T] did before Covid-19 and that’s what we’ll do long after Covid-19.”

3 Questions: Kyle Filipe on moving MIT online amid the Covid-19 pandemic

Director of IT support services for MIT Information Systems and Technology describes how his unit mobilized to prepare the MIT community for our new virtual landscape.

May 5, 2020

Letter to the community: Building a vision for MIT’s post-Covid future

May 4, 2020

Postdoc Izabella Pena creates videos in Portuguese about SARS-CoV-2 to combat misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic.

Myth-busting on YouTube

Postdoc Izabella Pena uses social media to combat the infodemic about the Covid-19 pandemic.

May 3, 2020

MIT’s Student Success Coaching program pairs students with volunteer “coaches,” who check in with them once a week through the end of the semester to see how they are transitioning to online learning and more generally, how they are doing during the COVID-19 crisis.

Weekly calls keep students connected to the Institute during a pandemic

Through the MIT Student Success Coaching program, volunteer faculty and staff check in with students to assist with whatever “bubbles up.”

May 1, 2020

Letter regarding decisions about summer programs

April 27, 2020

Ramachandra Dasari was a member of the MIT community for over 50 years.

Ramachandra Dasari, associate director of the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Lab, dies at 87

MIT scientist for over 50 years was a cherished mentor who published nearly 400 papers on topics from laser science to non-invasive biomedical diagnosis.

April 24, 2020

Marija Ilic — a senior research scientist at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, affiliate of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society, senior staff in MIT Lincoln Laboratory’s Energy Systems Group, and Carnegie Mellon University professor emerita — is a researcher on a mission: making electric energy systems future-ready.

Shedding light on complex power systems

Senior Research Scientist Marija Ilic is making electric energy systems future-ready.

April 23, 2020

“I’m grateful that I have skills to contribute during this time when the hospital needs our help and patients need our help,” says Picower Institute researcher and Massachusetts General Hospital neurologist Diane Chan, who has been helping evaluate patients in respiratory illness clinics during the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 calls MIT physician-scientist to front-line respiratory care

Neurologist and researcher Diane Chan pitches in to help New England get through tough times.

April 22, 2020

Letter regarding MIT's financial picture and next steps

April 13, 2020

McGovern Institute scientists Jonathan Gootenberg (left) and Omar Abuddayeh in the lab

3 Questions: How Covid-19 tests work and why they’re in short supply

MIT scientists Omar Abudayyeh and Jonathan Gootenberg explain the current state of Covid-19 testing, and how a CRISPR tool may help solve the supply problem.

April 10, 2020