Are we still listening to space?
Despite the planet’s seeming standstill, graduate students continue to use LIGO to identify astrophysical events.
3 Questions: Historian Emma Teng on face masks as 公德心
“Doing something for the community good is good for me also” is known as gongdexin (in Mandarin), kootokushin (in Japanese), and kongdokshim (in Korean).
For student researchers, no pause for the pandemic
Undergraduates Aljazzy Alahmadi, Andrea Garcia, and Quynh Nguyen are sustaining the nuclear science and engineering research mission from around the world.
Fostering friendships and films from across the globe
MISTI program connects MIT and Tokyo Tech students for an impactful summer experience.
Mobility Systems Center awards four projects for low-carbon transportation research
Topics include Covid-19 and urban mobility, strategies for electric vehicle charging networks, and infrastructure and economics for hydrogen-fueled transportation.
A scientific approach to education reform
Challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic have laid bare the need to reinvent education. Sanjay Sarma’s new book points a way.
Thea Keith-Lucas named interim chaplain to the Institute
Search for new full-time chaplain paused due to impact of Covid-19.
How MIT built its own Covid-19 testing trailer
Designed and assembled by experts from across the Institute, the facility should enable testing of up to 1,500 people a day.
A SHARP process for populating campus this fall
Student leaders, faculty, and staff contributed to process, values, and decisions.
Meet Lauryn Kortman: Juggling fusion magnets and LED batons
Rising MIT sophomore finds satisfaction designing for the laboratory and the playing field.
Crowdsourced grocery delivery service thrives despite pandemic woes
Philip Kuai MNG '07 leads first fully virtual investor roadshow to bring his company, Dada Group, to an initial public offering in New York.
MIT shares reopening plans with Cambridge City Council
Representatives detail plans to monitor and manage Covid-19 cases as students prepare to return to campus.
MIT Energy Conference goes virtual
Annual student-run energy conference pivots to successful online event with short notice in response to the coronavirus.
Reorienting graduate student orientation
Graduate Student Council Orientation Committee has been adapting grad orientation to an online format to welcome, inform, and connect new students.
Masks mandates have major impact, study finds
Analysis shows requiring masks for public-facing U.S. business employees on April 1 would have saved tens of thousands of lives.