3 Questions: Claire Wang on training the brain for memory sports
The MIT sophomore and award-winning memory champion explains what these competitions are all about and why you might want to build a “memory palace.”
Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025
Newly expanded financial aid will cover tuition costs for admitted students from 80 percent of U.S. families.
Making a mark in the nation’s capital
Alumni and founders of MIT Washington Summer Internship Program reflect on three decades of impact.
Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars
Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall.
Ensuring a durable transition
Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.
Linzixuan (Rhoda) Zhang wins 2024 Collegiate Inventors Competition
MIT graduate student earns top honors in Graduate and People’s Choice categories for her work on nutrient-stabilizing materials.
Stopping the bomb
Political science PhD student Kunal Singh identifies a suite of strategies states use to prevent other nations from developing nuclear weapons.
Samurai in Japan, then engineers at MIT
A new exhibit explores the Institute’s first Japanese students, who arrived as MIT was taking flight and their own country was opening up.
Bridging military service and engineering
Two MIT graduate students share similar journeys from West Point to MIT.
How examining conflict can be “intellectually serious” and “incredibly fun”
Through the Civil Discourse Project at MIT, scholarly debate serves as a model for productive discussions among MIT Concourse students.
2024 Math Prize for Girls at MIT sees six-way tie
Contest hosted by the Department of Mathematics attracts 274 participants and celebrates 16th anniversary.
US Department of Education honors three Lemelson-MIT student affiliates
Former Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam and Inventing Smart Solutions students spoke on a panel with Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona organized by the White House Initiative for Hispanics.
Rallying around graduate student parents
From helping new parents to coordinating play dates and sharing information, MIT students who are parents are there for one another.
Aspiring to sustainable development
In parallel, MIT and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala students seek to advance local innovation by and for Guatemalan communities.
Using spatial learning to transform math and science education
PrismsVR, founded by Anurupa Ganguly ’07, MNG ’09, takes students to virtual worlds to learn through experiences and movement.