With touches of technical wizardry, MIT holds its first online Commencement
The online ceremony featured virtual reality, crowdsourced music, a surprise visit from space, and more.
Professor Esther Duflo's salute to the advanced degree recipients
"Pick your issue [to address], and go for it with all your heart, all your mind, and all your knowledge," Duflo told graduates.
President L. Rafael Reif's charge to the class of 2020
"Find your calling! Solve the unsolvable! Invent the future! Take the high road," Reif urged graduates. "And you will continue to make your family, including your MIT family, proud."
William McRaven's Commencement address
"To save the world, you will have to be men and women of great integrity," McRaven told graduates.
Meet the MIT bilinguals: Dual materials science and music major Talia Khan
Fulbright Fellowship recipient encourages more musicologists and scientists to do interdisciplinary work with one another.
Undergraduates develop next-generation intelligence tools
UROP students explore applications in robotics, health care, language understanding, and nuclear engineering.
Eleven from MIT awarded 2020 Fulbright Fellowships
Graduating seniors and recent alumni will spend upcoming year abroad on Fulbright grants.
MIT a cappella group sings through quarantine together
Syncopasian, MIT's premier East Asian a cappella group, produced a Zoom-themed video to keep music alive during quarantine.
Inside the new world of online dissertation defenses
Emojis, grandmas logging in, and kudos from strangers: How MIT students have finished their PhDs during the pandemic.
The quest for practical fusion energy sources
Graduate student Erica Salazar tackles a magnetic engineering challenge.
Sara Plana receives inaugural Jeanne Guillemin Prize
The prize, which provides financial support to women working toward a PhD in international affairs, will be applied toward her research into proxy warfare.
MIT student applies her doctoral research to the Covid-19 emergency
Junli Hao's efforts aid procurement of face masks and respirators for first responders.
