Legatum Center announces 2019-20 fellowship class
The fellowship is MIT’s capstone program for student-entrepreneurs seeking high impact in emerging markets.
Integrated Design and Management
Mars city living: Designing for the Red Planet
A multidisciplinary team of MIT students and postdocs wins an international competition focused on building sustainably on Mars.
MIT space hotel wins NASA graduate design competition
Module would serve as a commercially owned space station, featuring a luxury hotel as the primary anchor tenant and NASA as a temporary co-anchor tenant.
![“There's a lot of role models here [at MIT], and sometimes, in Chile or in Mexico or in Costa Rica, [girls] don't know that there's a graduate student or an undergrad doing these cool things at MIT,” says grad student Alicia Chong Rodriguez. “I think it's a matter of just connecting the dots.”](/sites/default/files/styles/term_page__news_article/public/images/201608/MIT-Alicia-Chong-1.jpg?itok=SHyICvo7)
Taking on gender gaps in health care and technology
Graduate student Alicia Chong Rodriguez uses her engineering skills to empower women.