Robots compete in “Hack to the Future”
Final competition in MIT’s course 2.007 pays tribute to classic time-travel movie.
MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology receives $1.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Combined grants provide eight years of funding, among largest gifts received by the arts at MIT.
Study links brain anatomy, academic achievement, and family income
In middle-schoolers, neuroscientists find differences in brain structures where knowledge is stored.
MIT creates new Online Education Policy Initiative
Project brings together leaders in learning sciences, social sciences, and cognitive sciences to collaborate on a vision for the future of online learning.
MIT students showcase innovative ideas for the betterment of humankind
Students’ innovative IDEAS Global Challenge projects combine entrepreneurship with the passion to help others around the world.
How three MIT students fooled the world of scientific journals
A decade later, CSAIL alumni reflect on their paper generator and reveal a new fake-conference project.
Learning by teaching in a different culture
MISTI Global Teaching Labs has reached over 10,000 foreign high-school students with summer internships and research opportunities.
Deans announce new Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
MIT-wide effort aims to bring the power of data to the people.
Study on MOOCs provides new insights on an evolving space
Findings suggest many teachers enroll, learner intentions matter, and cost boosts completion rates.
Collaboration 101
MacVicar Day examines MIT’s unique partnership with Singapore University of Technology and Design.
Two school foundings, 63 years apart, link MIT with advances in Brazilian education
ITA and FazINOVA share a bold vision for Brazilian higher education — and a source of inspiration at MIT.
Four professors named 2015 MacVicar Fellows
Bahr, Drennan, Gibson, and Sive receive the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching award.
Teaching programming to preschoolers
System that lets children program a robot using stickers embodies new theories about programming languages.
U.S. News ranks graduate programs in engineering, business highly
MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; Sloan is No. 5 business school.