SeXX and Immunity event raises crucial questions for society
Why has it taken the scientific community so long to include sex as a biological variable in research and analysis as a matter of course?
At MIT, women take the lead on student teams
Women strengthen MIT Edgerton Center rocketry, motorsports, and solar vehicle teams with diverse perspectives.
3 Questions: Women’s rights and rising threats to press freedom worldwide
Polish journalist Ada Petriczko, an Elizabeth Neuffer Fellow at MIT, discusses ethical and cross-border journalism, freedom of speech, and the rise of autocracy.
Immersive video game explores the history of women at MIT
"A Lab of One’s Own" invites players to engage with archival materials in a virtual environment.
Seeing into the future: Personalized cancer screening with artificial intelligence
Scientists demonstrate that AI-risk models, paired with AI-designed screening policies, can offer significant and equitable improvements to cancer screening.
Brave Behind Bars: Prison education program focuses on computing skills for women
MIT computer scientists and mathematicians offer an introductory computing and career-readiness program for incarcerated women in New England.
Kerstin Perez is searching the cosmos for signs of dark matter
“There need to be more building blocks than the ones we know about,” says the particle physicist.
Q&A: John Dozier on the Strategic Action Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
MIT’s Institute community and equity officer discusses the opportunities and challenges of building consensus, the tensions between short and long-term planning, and the processes for bringing the MIT community together.
$7 million gift from the Shiv Nadar Foundation bolsters undergraduate research and women in EECS
Gift will help establish the Vamasundari Devi Fellowship Fund to provide financial support to graduate students and the SuperUROP program, which provides undergraduates with two-semester research opportunities.
EECS graduate women’s research summit increases research visibility and strengthens community
Summit features the latest research of women and other underrepresented genders in MIT EECS, along with an opportunity to network, share experiences, and learn.
“Vigilant inclusion” central to combating climate change
Tenth annual US C3E Women in Clean Energy Symposium focuses on equity and justice in the clean-energy transition.
MIT Future Founders Initiative announces prize competition to promote female entrepreneurs in biotech
Nine MIT researchers selected as finalists for 2021 prize supported by Northpond Ventures; grand prize winner to receive $250K toward commercializing her human health-related invention.
MIT Libraries digitizes materials from Mary Rowe
Papers from MIT’s former ombudsperson provide an important resource on the beginning of the organizational ombuds profession.
MIT Press announces Grant Program for Diverse Voices
New initiative extends the press’ commitment to publishing books by historically underrepresented authors through direct financial support.
Setting a new standard for hormone health
Alumna-founded Aavia uses education, community, and technology to change the way people think about hormones.