Equity and inclusion

Clockwise from top left: Pew Scholar Ibrahim Cissé, Pew Latin American Fellows Ana Fiszbein and Maria E. Inda, and Pew Scholar Gene-Wei Li.

Pew recognizes four MIT researchers for innovation in biomedical science

Biophysicist Ibrahim Cissé and cell biologist Gene-Wei Li honored as Pew Scholars; postdocs Ana Fiszbein and María Inda are named Pew Latin American Fellows.

June 20, 2017

The 2017 DUE Infinite Mile Award winners: (left to right) Tyrene Jones, Jeanne Hillery, Dean Dennis Freeman, Latasha Boyd, Melissa Martin-Greene, Michael Bergren, Elizabeth Vogel Taylor, Lauren McKown, and Katherine Wahl.

Dean for Undergraduate Education announces 2017 Infinite Mile Award recipients

Annual celebration of excellence honors staff for contributions on behalf of students, the department, and the Institute.

June 20, 2017

Bird's-eye view centers on MIT Building W31, where the new Office of Multicultural Programs and LBGT Services offices will be located.

Multicultural Programs, LBGT Services moving to new offices in W31

Programs supporting students will be closer to the center of campus.

June 6, 2017

PhD student Danielle Olson believes we can make digital information-sharing more natural and interpersonal, by creating immersive media to better understand each other’s feelings and backgrounds.

Danielle Olson: Building empathy through computer science and art

CSAIL PhD student creates immersive media to help users understand each other’s backgrounds and feelings.

May 30, 2017

Hacking discrimination

Student teams develop technology-based tools to address racism and bias.

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

The MIT Ohms a cappella group utilizes sounds from all kinds of South Asian music, occasionally mixing Western pop with Bollywood pop, grafting the songs to classical roots, and growing their own modern music.

MIT community celebrates its many cultures

Students, faculty, and staff come together at the OneWorld @ MIT Multicultural Festival and Dance Parties.

May 3, 2017

OneWorld @ MIT Multicultural Festival and Dance Parties will feature an array of traditional and contemporary music, costume, dance, and food from around the world.

MIT students plan multicultural festival

OneWorld @ MIT Multicultural Festival and Dance Parties bring the world to campus on April 29.

April 25, 2017

Software developer is a voice for Muslim women

An entrepreneur who co-founded Wise Systems, Layla Shaikley SM ’13 may be better known for her viral video created to combat media stereotypes of Muslim women.

April 19, 2017

As per tradition, MIT admitted its Class of 2021 on Pi Day, March 14, at "Tau Time," 6:28 p.m.

MIT offers admissions decisions to the Class of 2021

MIT admits 1,438 students from 50 states and 62 countries; admissions video carries on four-year tradition.

March 15, 2017

Researchers at the MIT Teaching Systems Lab have been awarded a Google grant to develop a promising new line of inquiry — a simulation-based teacher education technique designed to address teachers' unconscious bias in the classroom.

Providing educators with "teachable moments" concerning unconscious bias

Teaching Systems Lab Executive Director Justin Reich awarded a grant from Google for teacher-facing intervention research.

March 10, 2017

Minifigures of five NASA pioneers — from left to right, Margaret Hamilton, Katherine Johnson, Sally Ride, Nancy Grace Roman, and Mae Jemison — will appear in an official LEGO set originally designed by MIT staff member Maia Weinstock.

Women of NASA LEGO set blasts off

MIT staffer’s creation celebrating the history of women in the U.S. space program selected to become official LEGO set.

March 2, 2017

Clara Dresselhaus (left) and MIT graduate student Leora Cooper experience the red carpet at the 2017 Academy Awards, through sponsorship from GE. The women were invited to walk in honor of their grandmother, the late Mildred Dresselhaus, who starred in a recent GE campaign focused on supporting women in the STEM fields.

3Q: Leora Cooper on the legacy of her grandmother, Mildred Dresselhaus

After Dresselhaus’ recent passing, GE invited PhD candidate Leora Cooper to walk the red carpet at the 2017 Academy Awards in her grandmother's stead.

February 27, 2017

Suzy Nelson, vice president and dean for student life

3Q: Suzy Nelson on protections for transgender students at MIT

The Institute’s nondiscrimination policies will continue to offer vital protections for MIT’s transgender community, says the vice president and dean for student life.