Students

Two MIT students named Rhodes Scholars

Mary Clare Beytagh and Matthew Chun will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.

November 18, 2017

Ian Schneider is exploring research questions about the interaction between the workings of financial markets and the fluctuations of energy supply.

Engineering a brighter future

Optimizing the design of electricity markets could make it easier to integrate renewable energy sources into the power grid.

November 17, 2017

Letter regarding federal tax proposals and the MIT community

November 15, 2017

Left to right: MEET facilitators Ted Golfinopoulos, a PSFC research scientist, and graduate students Adam Kuang and Alex Tinguely spent time in Israel as part of program that provides a safe place for Israeli and Palestinian high school students to become colleagues in the study of science, technology, and entrepreneurship.

Bridging the divide with technology

Three from the Plasma Science and Fusion Center spend time with the Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow.

November 14, 2017

MIT senior Mary Clare Beytagh hopes to become a science writer as well as a physician-scientist, telling stories that humanize patients and focus on the social and economic determinants of health.

Mary Clare Beytagh: Finding poetry in medicine

MIT senior and aspiring physician aims to tell stories that humanize the patients behind medical statistics.

November 12, 2017

MIT students collect donations for Puerto Rico hurricane relief efforts outside of the Stratton Student Center.

MIT unites for Puerto Rico hurricane relief

Student-organized donation drive receives overwhelming support from the Institute community during its three-day fundraiser.

November 9, 2017

Bruno Verdini leads a class discussion for 11.011 (The Art and Science of Negotiation.) Verdini is a lecturer on urban planning and negotiation in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, as well as the executive director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program.

“A good negotiator can be exactly who you are"

Bruno Verdini leads a popular new class on negotiation skills.

November 2, 2017

MIT joins court brief in support of “Dreamers”

Legal filing is part of larger set of Institute actions to aid DACA students.

November 2, 2017

Faculty, staff, and graduate students gathered for a luncheon honoring MIT’s 2018 Siebel Scholars.

Sixteen MIT grad students are named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018

MIT students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science fields receive the prestigious awards.

November 1, 2017

Woodard is a co-founder of the MIT BoSTEM Scholars Academy. The four-week summer program gives high school students valuable experiences in STEM and aims to put them on the path to MIT and other universities. Woodard worked with his co-founder Javier Weddington to raise $18,000 to fund the program, which debuted the summer of 2017 and will continue in the coming summers.

Connecting through conversation

Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.

November 1, 2017

MIT undergraduate Henoch Argaw (1998-2017)

Remembering and honoring the life of undergraduate Henoch Argaw

A motivated self-learner, Argaw found joy by teaching and mentoring others.

October 31, 2017

Punting with new friends on the River Cam, which flows through Cambridge, England, was one of the joys of CME for MIT students.

Cambridge-MIT Exchange: Celebrating 16 years of transforming student lives

A bittersweet gathering of alumni, faculty, and administrators marks the MIT-Cambridge University exchange program's final year.

October 27, 2017

Jerry Akinsulire’s ideal job would involve “an interplay — developing ideas on a drawing board, building something hands on, and then testing in the world,” he says. “That would be the perfect combination for me.”

Jerry Akinsulire: The making of a maker mentor

Undergraduate Olorunsola “Jerry” Akinsulire spearheads a new builder space in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

October 26, 2017

An interactive map shows the gender diversity in undergraduate classes across MIT on a class-by-class basis.

Mapping gender diversity at MIT

Data visualization map explores two decades of enrollment trends among female students at the Institute.

October 25, 2017

“Our technology takes plastic out of the landfill, locks it up in concrete, and also uses less cement to make the concrete, which makes fewer carbon dioxide emissions,” says assistant professor Michael Short.

MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic

Adding bits of irradiated plastic water bottles could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions.