Homeschooled with MIT courses at 5, accepted to MIT at 15
After acquiring his entire elementary and secondary education from OpenCourseWare and MITx, Ahaan Rungta joined the MIT Class of 2019 at age 15.
MindHandHeart Initiative announces first-round Innovation Fund grant recipients
Grants totaling over $25,000 were awarded to mental health and well-being proposals in the first Innovation Fund cycle.
Tackling cancer research from multiple perspectives
Graduate student Tushar Kamath takes an interdisciplinary approach to cancer research.
MIT joins in Supreme Court amicus brief supporting consideration of race in admissions
Institute and 12 other universities reaffirm the value of campus diversity.
Sports Shorts for Nov. 2, 2015: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Men’s and Women’s Cross Country take home NEWMAC titles; Women’s Soccer and Volleyball take home NEWMAC regular-season championships.
Empowering students in Sri Lanka to form mobile-app startups
MIT Global Startup Labs program leads to student-founded startups 4Axis Solutions and PayMedia.
Grad students honor caring faculty through Committed to Caring (C2C) Awards
Celebration of “above and beyond” support enters second year.
Mapping the 3-D structure of DNA
PhD student Abe Weintraub helps identify when DNA folding is helpful, and when it might cause cancer.
Sports Shorts for Oct. 26, 2015: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Women’s Tennis takes NEWMAC Championship; No. 23 Women’s Volleyball wins New England Challenge.
Students challenged to drive change with new MIT Food and Agribusiness Innovation Prize
J-WAFS receives a gift from Rabobank in support of a new student innovation competition, to be run by the MIT Food and Agriculture Club.
Aditi Verma: A multidisciplinary take on nuclear policy
PhD student is acquiring the science, engineering, and social sciences expertise needed to make sense of complex policy questions surrounding nuclear energy.
Book explores the "Musical Institute of Technology"
Collection of photographs and quotes from the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences celebrates music and the MIT mission.
Making banking effective for the poor
In India, PhD student Natalia Rigol aims to tap into community knowledge to vet loan and grant applicants.
Sports Shorts for Oct. 19, 2015: A weekly wrap-up of MIT varsity athletics
Men’s/Women’s Cross Country take home Connecticut College Invitational Title; Crew opens season at head of the Charles Regatta.
3Q: Cynthia Barnhart on progress to prevent sexual assault at MIT
A year after the release of a pioneering survey, chancellor discusses steps MIT has taken to date.