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Letter to the community: Building a vision for MIT’s post-Covid future

May 4, 2020

MIT’s Student Success Coaching program pairs students with volunteer “coaches,” who check in with them once a week through the end of the semester to see how they are transitioning to online learning and more generally, how they are doing during the COVID-19 crisis.

Weekly calls keep students connected to the Institute during a pandemic

Through the MIT Student Success Coaching program, volunteer faculty and staff check in with students to assist with whatever “bubbles up.”

May 1, 2020

MIT Building 68, home of the Department of Biology

Life and learning find a way during a pandemic

Despite Covid-19 physical distancing, the Department of Biology has come together while being apart.

April 30, 2020

Letter regarding decisions about summer programs

April 27, 2020

“I’m grateful that I have skills to contribute during this time when the hospital needs our help and patients need our help,” says Picower Institute researcher and Massachusetts General Hospital neurologist Diane Chan, who has been helping evaluate patients in respiratory illness clinics during the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid-19 calls MIT physician-scientist to front-line respiratory care

Neurologist and researcher Diane Chan pitches in to help New England get through tough times.

April 22, 2020

This iconic photograph of Earth, taken by Apollo 17 astronauts on December 7, 1972, is considered NASA’s most widely distributed picture. It is the first photograph that clearly showed the full Earth.

On Earth Day, lessons from Covid-19 pandemic offer hope

“Every emergency reveals that ‘impossible’ things are actually doable,” President Rafael Reif writes in Boston Globe op-ed.

April 22, 2020

The Covid-19 global pandemic sent Steven Truong home from MIT to Minnesota, away from friends and colleagues and to where his Vietnamese family relies on his comparatively rich medical knowledge for information.

Engineering student Steven Truong draws upon MIT experiences to navigate Covid-19

MIT senior helps his immigrant family address medical matters while balancing his school work.

April 21, 2020

McGovern scientists are studying the toll of social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Examining the social impact of Covid-19

Survey from the Saxe Lab aims to measure the toll of social isolation during the Covid-19 pandemic.

April 21, 2020

The MIT Press and Candlewick Press to collaborate on new imprints for children, teens

First-ever collaboration between a university press and a children’s publisher will offer young readers fascinating insights into STEAM topics.

April 17, 2020

A group of students from Harvard and MIT have created a mentoring platform called CovEducation that matches K-12 students from low income communities with college students to provide academic support.

Helping K-12 students overcome school closures

CovEducation matches college students with younger learners to facilitate online learning.

April 17, 2020

The Sean Collier Care Center on the MIT campus will serve Covid-19 patients from the MIT community and the broader Cambridge community who are at very low risk for requiring ventilators or other intensive care.

MIT opens the Sean Collier Care Center for patients with Covid-19

Staffed by MIT Medical, the 75-bed facility will provide care for members of the MIT community and individuals from the broader Cambridge community.

April 15, 2020

Letter regarding MIT's financial picture and next steps

April 13, 2020

The new Solve Health Security and Pandemics Challenge is designed to produce both short-term solutions to the impact of the current pandemic as well as longer-term strategies for future crises.

MIT Solve rises to meet health security and pandemic challenge

MIT Solve 2020 Challenge seeks tech-based solutions to health security challenges, including Covid-19 and future pandemics.

April 13, 2020

Mail Services Supervisor Darren O’Conner (left) and mail processor Sue Monteiro prepare a shipment of PPE to Mt. Auburn Hospital.

MIT offers assistance to City of Cambridge during Covid-19 crisis

The Institute is supporting Cambridge’s nonprofits, small businesses, and residents.

April 9, 2020

In response to the increased need for digital content and distance learning, the MIT Press has made a selection of books on pandemics, epidemiology, and related topics freely available for the foreseeable future on the PubPub platform.

The MIT Press offers e-resources during the Covid-19 pandemic

The press is rapidly expanding free access to content including articles, books, and live discussions as a way to maintain public access to knowledge and research.