Top Institute stories dealt with a presidential transition; Climate Grand Challenges; an action plan for belonging, achievement, and composition; the MIT Morningside Academy for Design; “Wakanda Forever” at MIT; and more.
Across the Institute, MIT’s communities took part in light-hearted traditions new and old.
High school students traveled across the country to compete on campus.
MIT professors collaborate at a whirlwind pace to create and stage a play inspired by advances in neurotechnology.
Philosophy PhD student Eliza Wells investigates how our social roles influence our moral lives.
Students compete to design a compression-resistant nanoscale material — and win possibly the world’s smallest trophy.
The MIT PhD student grew up in Mexico and crossed into the US on foot at age 12. Today she’s working in two different labs in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Fifteen MIT students traveled to Washington to speak to representatives from several federal executive agencies.
Some might find the MIT senior’s studies in management and German to be an odd fit for an aspiring physician. Robayo would disagree.
In MIT class 18.A34 (Mathematical Problem Solving), students prep for a major collegiate mathematics competition — and learn to love math.
Students pitched prototypes for a sea turtle incubator, a wheelchair speed control, a self-cleaning firehose system, and more.
The new fellowship from the governments of Australia, India, Japan, and the United States, administered by Schmidt Futures, supports graduate education in STEM fields.
First-gen MIT graduate students are claiming their identity, forming community, and holding space for one another.
Graduate students Alejandro Aguilera Castrejón and Melanie de Almeida honored for their passion for fundamental biology and discovery science.
Rachel Chae and Sihao Huang ’22 will pursue graduate studies in the United Kingdom.