Examining the French stage during the Enlightenment and French Revolution
Bilingual, interactive online publication asks how politics, economics, and social conflict shaped the Comédie-Française theater troupe’s repertory and impacted its finances.
Get Out the Vote Fest attracts 1,000 viewers ahead of November election
MIT student groups come together to host “voter mobilization festival” featuring Institute leaders, famed artists, and elected officials.
It’s the virtual Great Glass Pumpkin Patch, MIT
With shimmering colors and twisting vines, the annual glass pumpkin patch moves online to adapt to the pandemic.
Exploring the lives of MIT pioneers through drama
In researching and writing a new play, undergraduates delved into the rise of several of MIT’s history-making students.
Rewriting the rules of machine-generated art
An artificial intelligence tool lets users edit generative adversarial network models with simple copy-and-paste commands.
Rebuilding cultures through art, design, and community
Once displaced by war, MIT’s Azra Akšamija creates works of cultural resilience in the face of social conflict.
School of Architecture and Planning announces 2020 Infinite Mile Award winners
SA+P recognizes exceptional service in an extraordinary academic year.
Algorithm finds hidden connections between paintings at the Met
A team from MIT helped create an image retrieval system to find the closest matches of paintings from different artists and cultures.
Tackling the misinformation epidemic with “In Event of Moon Disaster”
New website from the MIT Center for Advanced Virtuality rewrites an important moment in history to educate the public on the dangers of deepfakes.
Design in a major key
MIT’s design minor and major programs give rise to polymath students with design skills they can apply to any field.
2020 Awards Convocation recognizes and honors MIT community members
Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends are recognized for their outstanding contributions to MIT.
Meet the MIT bilinguals: Claudia Chen '20 combines creative, humanistic, and technical fields
Recent MIT graduate will apply her dual comparative media studies and mechanical engineering degree to work in the technology industry.
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2020-21
Ranked at the top for the ninth straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
3 Questions: Sandy Alexandre on the literary roots of technological innovations
“Our speculative fiction writers are the unsung prophets among us.”
Hacking Commencement
Marshalling forces from across the Institute, MIT will deliver an online celebration worthy of the Class of 2020.