Students

MIT to donate to four nonprofits supporting survivors of sexual abuse

Institute’s Committee on Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response recommends recipients for $850,000 pledge.

January 27, 2020

Left to right: MARC committee members and MIT graduate students Navid Abedzadeh, Mayuran Saravanapavanantham, Haozhe Wang, Elaine McVay, Qingyun Xie, Jatin Patil, Jessica Boles, Rachel Yang, and Rishabh Mittal.

MIT graduate students lead conference on microsystems and nanotechnology

Student committee puts together research showcase while balancing coursework, qualifying exams, and extracurriculars.

January 22, 2020

Hacking life inside and outside the laboratory

Managing her own synthetic biology project helped graduate student Jesse Tordoff overcome imposter syndrome and hit her stride.

January 21, 2020

Julie Newman, director of sustainability at MIT, says the final project for course 2.S999 “uses the campus as a test bed for engaging and exposing students to the complexity of solving [for] global issues in their own backyard.”

Students propose plans for a carbon-neutral campus

Students in class 2.S999 (Solving for Carbon Neutrality at MIT) are charged with developing plans to make MIT’s campus carbon neutral by 2060.

January 17, 2020

“In courses like Nuclear Technology and Society, which covered the benefits and risks of nuclear energy, I saw that some people believed the solution for climate change was definitely nuclear, while others said it was wind or solar,” says doctoral student Nestor Sepulveda. “I began wondering how to determine the value of different technologies.”

Zeroing in on decarbonization

Wielding complex algorithms, nuclear science and engineering doctoral candidate Nestor Sepulveda spins out scenarios for combating climate change.

January 15, 2020

3 Questions: Maria Zuber on guidance for foreign nationals following recent Homeland Security memo

Vice president for research clarifies the memo’s intention and provides guidance.

January 14, 2020

K. Renee Horton, NASA scientist and past president of the National Society of Black Physicists, speaks with students at a recent physics conference. Due to a climate that has consistently excluded African-Americans from succeeding in physics and astronomy, a new task force report urges significant cultural changes in these fields.

Making physics and astronomy more welcoming to African-American students

Report co-chaired by MIT professor cites need for “sweeping changes” in academic culture.

January 13, 2020

Letter from President Reif: Learning from the facts and taking action

January 10, 2020

MIT releases results of fact-finding on engagements with Jeffrey Epstein

Law firm completes independent review of faculty, staff, and administration actions.

January 10, 2020

MIT is celebrating 50 years of Project Interphase, a summer session for incoming first-year students that aims to ease the transition to MIT and to help build community.

Featured video: 50 years of Interphase EDGE

Impactful program for first-year students helps to ensure a successful transition to MIT.

December 30, 2019

An MIT scholarship let senior Emily Soice pursue her passions in civil and environmental engineering and music: “Without a scholarship, I wouldn’t be here,” she says.

Scholarships help build an exceptional student body

A record $38 million has been raised for undergraduate financial aid in FY19.

December 25, 2019

Junior Alex Cuellar with his constructed language. The chalkboard reads: "I can speak Oafal."

How to build a language

MIT students are inventing constructed languages — or “conlangs” — in a class that uses linguistics to supply the building blocks.

December 17, 2019

Anoushka Bose is moving purposefully toward a public-service career in nuclear policy and diplomacy.

Anoushka Bose: Targeting a career in security studies and diplomacy

Nuclear science and engineering and physics met political science to illuminate a new path.

December 17, 2019

Students gather in the Stata Center to hear the 2019 MIT EnergyHack challenges. Participants had 36 hours to come up with a solution to the challenge they were assigned with their team members before presenting to company representatives, fellow hackers, and judges.

Hacking into a sustainable energy future

The 2019 MIT EnergyHack presented opportunities for students and companies to collaborate and solve problems facing the energy sector today.

December 11, 2019

2.009 course instructor David Wallace welcomes a capacity crowd to students’ final presentations.

2.009 lights up the stage

Student projects presented at the annual MIT event range from beekeeping safety to custom cosmetics.