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Bruno Verdini leads a class discussion for 11.011 (The Art and Science of Negotiation.) Verdini is a lecturer on urban planning and negotiation in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, as well as the executive director of the MIT-Harvard Mexico Negotiation Program.

“A good negotiator can be exactly who you are"

Bruno Verdini leads a popular new class on negotiation skills.

November 2, 2017

MIT joins court brief in support of “Dreamers”

Legal filing is part of larger set of Institute actions to aid DACA students.

November 2, 2017

Faculty, staff, and graduate students gathered for a luncheon honoring MIT’s 2018 Siebel Scholars.

Sixteen MIT grad students are named to the Siebel Scholars class of 2018

MIT students from bioengineering, business, computer science, and energy science fields receive the prestigious awards.

November 1, 2017

Woodard is a co-founder of the MIT BoSTEM Scholars Academy. The four-week summer program gives high school students valuable experiences in STEM and aims to put them on the path to MIT and other universities. Woodard worked with his co-founder Javier Weddington to raise $18,000 to fund the program, which debuted the summer of 2017 and will continue in the coming summers.

Connecting through conversation

Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.

November 1, 2017

MIT undergraduate Henoch Argaw (1998-2017)

Remembering and honoring the life of undergraduate Henoch Argaw

A motivated self-learner, Argaw found joy by teaching and mentoring others.

October 31, 2017

Punting with new friends on the River Cam, which flows through Cambridge, England, was one of the joys of CME for MIT students.

Cambridge-MIT Exchange: Celebrating 16 years of transforming student lives

A bittersweet gathering of alumni, faculty, and administrators marks the MIT-Cambridge University exchange program's final year.

October 27, 2017

Jerry Akinsulire’s ideal job would involve “an interplay — developing ideas on a drawing board, building something hands on, and then testing in the world,” he says. “That would be the perfect combination for me.”

Jerry Akinsulire: The making of a maker mentor

Undergraduate Olorunsola “Jerry” Akinsulire spearheads a new builder space in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

October 26, 2017

An interactive map shows the gender diversity in undergraduate classes across MIT on a class-by-class basis.

Mapping gender diversity at MIT

Data visualization map explores two decades of enrollment trends among female students at the Institute.

October 25, 2017

“Our technology takes plastic out of the landfill, locks it up in concrete, and also uses less cement to make the concrete, which makes fewer carbon dioxide emissions,” says assistant professor Michael Short.

MIT students fortify concrete by adding recycled plastic

Adding bits of irradiated plastic water bottles could cut cement industry’s carbon emissions.

October 25, 2017

“We got a lot of traffic here, all Boston locals,” said PhD candidate You Wu about the MIT — For a Better World exhibit at The HUB, part of the 2017 HUBweek celebration. Wu is holding a Robot Daisy, a soft, rubbery robot designed to move through municipal water pipes and detect leaks.

At The HUB, a celebration of art, technology, and innovation

Student volunteers at HUBweek exhibits share MIT’s creative spirit with the public.

October 18, 2017

“I found diaries from 7th grade where I asked a whole stream of questions about the universe and the ‘edge of the universe’ and its expansion,” says senior Talia Weiss.

Bridging the science-policy divide

For MIT senior Talia Weiss, physics and theater have provided a springboard for new interests in political science.

October 17, 2017

Using MIT's new digital diploma system, employers and schools can quickly verify that a graduate's degree is legitimate by using a link or uploading the student’s file. The verification process confirms that the information on the student’s record matches a receipt stored on the blockchain.

Digital Diploma debuts at MIT

Using Bitcoin's blockchain technology, the Institute has become one of the first universities to issue recipient-owned virtual credentials.

October 17, 2017

The winning team, named A Salt Solution, won $10,000 for a prototype of a simple, low-cost hydrogel that can be incorporated into water desalination plants or placed directly into bodies of water to collect uranium. The team members are: (left to right) Jasmine Harris, Cynthia Lo, and William “Robin” Lindemann.

Hydrogel that extracts uranium from water wins MADMEC

Teams developing materials solutions for ships and buildings split second and third prizes.

October 13, 2017

The 2017 MIT recipients of the U.S. Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowships are (clockwise from top left) Peter Ahrens, Miriam Rathbun, Annie Yuan Wei, and Kevin Silmore.

Grad students earn Department of Energy computational fellowships

Ahrens, Rathbun, Silmore, and Wei are recognized for tackling complex science and engineering problems of national importance.

October 11, 2017

MIT doctoral student Michael B. Cohen ’14, SM ’16 (1992-2017)

Celebrating the life of doctoral student and alumnus Michael B. Cohen

Faculty, friends, and family pay tribute to an intellectually generous scholar.

October 5, 2017

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