John Mikhael ’13 wins Rhodes Scholarship
Recent MIT graduate in mathematics, who has also conducted research in neuroscience, will study at Oxford next year.
An economist with a goal
MIT senior Jonathan Tebes sees economics as a way to alleviate poverty in the US, Tanzania, and beyond.
DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman will be MIT’s 2014 Commencement speaker
A champion of market-driven science, trained as an engineer, will address the Class of 2014 on June 6.
‘Lean In’ at MIT
Institute hosts live broadcast of talk by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who discusses how women can lead in the workplace.
MIT students help middle-school girls SHINE in dance and math
Senior Kirin Sinha has founded an after-school program to connect seventh-grade girls with MIT female student-mentors.
Military medicine
Senior Laura Lu’s years at MIT have included cancer research, ROTC leadership, and prosthesis trials — and she aims to put her talents to use one day as a Navy surgeon.
SuperUROP raises bar for undergraduate research and innovation
EECS September kickoff reception features guest speakers Susan Hockfield and Ray Stata
Fighting for social justice
With U.S. history and constitutional law on his mind, senior Cory Hernandez envisions a society that welcomes all — starting with MIT.
Under the sea
MIT senior Grace Young’s love of marine robotics will lead her to spend up to a month underwater this semester, collecting data and teaching classes over Skype to help save the oceans.
MIT student-innovator prize goes national
The Lemelson-MIT Program has opened its Collegiate Student Prize competition to student innovators nationwide.
Accelerating startups, the MIT way
MIT’s Global Founders Skills Accelerator — which focuses on ‘disciplined entrepreneurship’ — helps student teams build innovation-based startups.
U.S. News ranks MIT seventh overall among U.S. universities
Institute’s undergraduate engineering program is again ranked No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2.