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At a "pitch and demo" DesignX accelerator event, Department of Urban Studies and Planning student Riddhi Shah, lead for the Kumej project, makes her pitch to the crowd. Kumej is a light, collapsible seat designed to enable underprivileged students in India to carry and create their own comfortable work surface, whether at a construction site where their parents work or in a rural school.

Design innovations for improved life in cities

Venture accelerator DesignX unleashes entrepreneurs’ ideas to transform the built environment.

June 13, 2017

Students who completed 6.S064, a fully-online pilot course modeled after the popular 6.002 (Circuits and Electronics), reported more flexibility with scheduling and less overall stress relative to their traditional classes.

MIT pilots full-credit online residential course

Campus students report more flexibility, reduced stress in taking an online version of a popular MIT course.

June 12, 2017

Lee Perlman (in maroon shirt) lectures on the philosophy of love at MIT. Perlman also teaches classes at Massachusetts prisons with a mix of both MIT students and prison inmates.

Breaking down walls between the ivory tower and prison

The MIT Prison Initiative provides an academic framework for undergraduates and local inmates to explore the human condition.

May 24, 2017

Woodie Flowers (left) and Dean Kamen.

Dean Kamen: “The magic is out there!”

Noted inventors Kamen and Flowers urge students to unleash their imagination on world’s problems.

May 18, 2017

Left to right: Thomas Ermacora, futurist, urbanist and humanitarian; Hala Fadel MBA ’01, founder and chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Pan-Arab region; Admir Masic, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT; Lara Stein, MIT ReACT development director; and Riccardo Sabatini, scientist and entrepreneur.

MIT to spur global education hub for displaced populations and refugees

The Refugee ACTion Hub (ReACT) will create tailored learning experiences and spark collaboration.

May 16, 2017

MIT teaching assistant Marjorie Cantine lands a drone in Death Valley.

Classroom Earth: Drones over the desert

Professor Kristin Bergmann and her class used innovative technology to explore the sedimentary history of the Carrara Formation in California's Death Valley.

May 16, 2017

“I realized that I didn’t come to MIT because it was the best engineering school, but because it was the best place to discover what I was truly passionate about,” MIT senior Raul Boquin says.

Raul Boquin: Working toward high-quality education for all

MIT senior envisions opportunities for “every person of the world who wants to learn something.”

May 16, 2017

Catherine Good leads an interactive seminar on academic belonging with faculty, postdocs, and administrators from across MIT.

You belong @ MIT

A new initiative developed by the Teaching and Learning Lab is designed to increase students’ sense of academic belonging.

May 12, 2017

Throughout Scratch Day, children from the Boston area and farther afield collaborated on computing projects at the MIT Media Lab.

Celebrating 10 years of Scratch

Scratch Day @ MIT was one of more than 1,100 global events during May to celebrate the kids’ programming language and online community on its 10th anniversary.

May 11, 2017

MIT spinout New Valence Robotics (NVBOTS) has brought to market the only fully automated commercial 3-D printer that’s equipped with cloud-based queuing and automatic part removal, making print jobs quicker and easier for multiple users, and dropping the cost per part.

Making 3-D printing as simple as printing on paper

Startup’s cloud-based system allows for project queuing by multiple users and automated part removal.

May 4, 2017

(Left to right) L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT; Fady Mohammed Jameel, president of Community Jameel International; and Sanjay Sarma, MIT vice president for open learning

Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) to spark global renaissance in education through innovation at MIT

Empowering underserved populations will be a guiding focus.

May 2, 2017

"Technology is not a silver bullet, but education is," said Karen Cator, CEO of Digital Promise.

Experts gather at MIT to explore new research in education technology

Researchers, policymakers, and education company leaders discuss innovative technologies to improve education for disadvantaged learners.

April 28, 2017

“At heart I’m still looking for good stories that explain things I see in the world around me,” says senior Kevin Zhou.

Kevin Zhou: Seeking new stories about the physical world

MIT senior will pursue theoretical physics studies as a Marshall Scholar.

April 20, 2017

Amos Winter, assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, speaks to individuals in India, where he has introduced assistive technologies such as a wheelchair for rugged terrain.

Amos Winter wins the Harold E. Edgerton Award

Global leader in mechanical engineering named the recipient of MIT’s esteemed junior faculty award.

April 19, 2017

In 2016, The MIT-Arab World Program matched 19 MIT students with teaching and internship placements in Jordan, home of the archaeological city of Petra.

Building connections between the Institute and countries in the Arab world

MISTI’s MIT-Arab World Program supports student and faculty activities with colleagues from Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Syria.

April 18, 2017