UPOP’s new career peer-mentoring program reaches for the STARS
Seniors take part in the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program student leader program, building community and bringing peer career advising to sophomores.
Solving equations to design safer ships
David Larson, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering and an avid sailor, models ship-wave interactions to understand how ships behave in severe storms.
MIT class of 2019 witnesses $500 million climate pledge
Michael Bloomberg announces new Beyond Carbon initiative in his Commencement address.
Michael Bloomberg's Commencement address
Entrepreneur, philanthropist announces new climate initiative, says climate crisis "is unlike any other ever faced by humankind."
President L. Rafael Reif’s charge to the Class of 2019
“As you strive to hack the world, please try to heal the world, too,” Reif urges graduates.
At doctoral ceremony, a strong call to provide opportunity for all
Biochemist Squire Booker PhD ’94 says MIT’s new doctoral graduates will “grow as future leaders” by giving back.
Featured video: The MIT Brass Rat
A look at the unique process by which MIT's class ring is dreamed up, created, and distributed every year.
Communities in the cloud
PhD student Steven Gonzalez studies cloud computing with the eye of an anthropologist.
Celebrating the Class of 2019 and CEE community
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering honors students, postdocs, faculty, and staff at awards banquet; seniors present capstone projects.
A behavioral economist explores poverty and development
Doctoral student Pierre-Luc Vautrey investigates how incorrect beliefs shape economic decision-making.
MIT students organize FAIL! ― an initiative to destigmatize failure and build resilience
FAIL! brings together prominent scholars to share the challenges and missteps that led them to where they are today.
Merging financial savvy and engineering solutions
Sloan Fellow and world citizen James Fok wants to bring financial technology to the global marketplace.
Humanizing speech in the deaf-blind community
Sophomore Noopur Ranganathan's work empowers those with visual and auditory impairments to take communication into their own hands.
Developing artificial intelligence tools for all
MIT Quest for Intelligence-sponsored undergraduate research projects demystify AI.
For one graduate student, MIT's nuclear reactor is like a "second home"
On the cusp of graduation, health sciences and technology doctoral candidate Agata Wiśniowska '11 sustains her decade-plus connection to the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab.