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MIT students set records at this year’s Putnam Competition: (left to right) Shengtong Zhang, Yuan Yao, Kevin Sun, Daniel Zhu, Qi Qi, and Dain Kim. Not pictured: Ashwin Sah.

MIT students dominate annual Putnam Mathematical Competition

Participating MIT students make history by taking all top five spots — the first time this has happened for any school.

March 3, 2020

“I’ve been drawn to [international] experiences mainly because I love school, and I love the classroom experience, but it just can’t compare to living with people and understanding their way of life and the issues they face every day," says senior Kendyll Hicks.

A force for health equity

Through on-site projects in developing countries and internships in the business world, Kendyll Hicks explores the political and economic drivers of global health.

February 29, 2020

Carolina Ortega, a third-year mathematics student at MIT, talks with students as part of a MISTI-Africa program to connect MIT mathletes with their Ghanaian counterparts.

It all adds up

MIT students train teams in Ghana and Uganda for the International Mathematical Olympiad through MISTI-Africa.

February 26, 2020

"The Burchard Scholars are an extraordinary group of MIT undergraduates who have demonstrated enthusiasm and aptitude for the humanities, social sciences, or arts,” says Margery Resnick, an MIT professor of literature and director of the Burchard program.

Thirty-eight exceptional MIT students named 2020 Burchard Scholars

Students expand intellectual horizons and leadership skills at dinner-seminars with MIT faculty.

February 25, 2020

MIT political science PhD candidate Benjamin Chang

Benjamin Chang: Might technology tip the global scales?

MIT graduate student is assessing the impacts of artificial intelligence on military power, with a focus on the US and China.

February 19, 2020

MIT’s latest Quality of Life Survey solicits feedback from students, staff, and faculty about a full range of campus issues, from social concerns to academic and workplace matters.

3 Questions: MIT’s Quality of Life Survey is here

The survey, deployed every four years, is a unique, confidential forum for community input.

February 19, 2020

Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger (left) and Charlotte Minsky have been named 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholars.

Charlotte Minsky and Lyndie Mitchell Zollinger named 2020 Gates Cambridge Scholars

MIT seniors will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University.

February 18, 2020

In a diamond crystal, three carbon atom nuclei (shown in blue) surround an empty spot called a nitrogen vacancy center, which behaves much like a single electron (shown in red). The carbon nuclei act as quantum bits, or qubits, and it turns out the primary source of noise that disturbs them comes from the jittery “electron” in the middle. By understanding the single source of that noise, it be...

Correcting the “jitters” in quantum devices

A new study suggests a path to more efficient error correction, which may help make quantum computers and sensors more practical.

February 18, 2020

MIT senior Jakub Chudik became interested in medical technology, especially related to cancer, after his younger brother, who was a toddler at the time, was diagnosed with cancer during Chudik’s first year of high school.

An entrepreneur finds his way to MIT

Introduced to the Institute through MITx and MIT Bootcamps, Jakub Chudik is now a senior in EECS and CTO of his own startup.

February 17, 2020

Students participating in MIT Quest for Intelligence-funded UROP projects include: (clockwise from top left) Nicole Thumma, Joanne Yuan, Julian Viera, Andrei Dumitrescu, Pablo Alejo-Aguirre, and Dolapo Adedokun.

Bringing artificial intelligence into the classroom, research lab, and beyond

Through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, students work to build AI tools with impact.

February 13, 2020

Kevin Richardson, one of the Central Park Five, who have all been exonerated of their unjust conviction, gives the keynote speech at this year’s annual MIT Martin Luther King luncheon.

MLK Luncheon speaker describes “dealing with scars nobody can see”

Exonerated Central Park Five member Kevin Richardson details his harrowing experiences and his hopeful vision for the future.

February 13, 2020

“Assuming I continue to graduate school, I think I would like to be involved in a research effort," says MIT junior Analyce Hernandez, "like the one I’m working on in dark matter, where I uncloak big mysteries and discover something fundamental about the way the universe works.”

Analyce Hernandez: Uncloaking big mysteries

Junior double major seeks to piece together puzzles of the universe, particle by particle.

February 12, 2020

Letter regarding MIT’s next Institute Community and Equity Officer

February 12, 2020

Jessica Xu and Priscilla Wong stand in front of their finished chalk art in the Stata Center.

Drawing daily doodles: Chalk of the Day brightens MIT

Chalk of the Day, an MIT student group, draws beautiful daily works of art on the chalk wall in Building 32.

February 10, 2020

Singing for joy and service

After surgery to correct childhood hearing loss, Swarna Jeewajee discovered a desire to be a physician-scientist, and a love of a cappella music.

February 2, 2020

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