Global

Guest speaker Peter Krause presents a chart measuring changes over time in the rate of political violence in Algeria.

Tackling complex Middle East statehood issues

Bustani Middle East Seminar lectures by Leila Farsakh and Peter Krause PhD '11 take a close look at nationalist movements in Israel, Palestine, and Algeria.

November 16, 2017

Left to right: António Cunha, representative of the Council of Portuguese Rectors; Manuel Heitor, Portuguese minister of science, technology, and higher education; Paulo Ferrão, president of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

Portuguese delegation led by Minister Manuel Heitor visits MIT

Portugal prepares a new decade of international partnerships in science and research.

November 14, 2017

Winners of the 2017 Better World Media Contest: At left, Max Freitas and his D-Lab project partner Hope Chen (pictured, with patient) developed and field tested prosthetics with Rise Legs through MIT-India. Right: Dou Dou '17 brought over 80 Israeli and Palestinian high school students together by teaching them computer science and entrepreneurship through MIT-MEET.

Tackling the world’s challenges in the field

MISTI media contest showcases MIT students working to build a better world.

October 2, 2017

MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node finds permanent home

The 5,000-square-foot facility includes prototyping equipment, a makerspace, and multipurpose areas.

September 25, 2017

Pictured from left: Siqi Zheng, Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor and faculty director of China Future City Lab; Bin Yang, vice president and provost of Tsinghua University; Martin Schmidt, MIT provost; Richard Lester, MIT associate provost for international activities; Zhengzhen Tan, executive director of China Future City Lab

MIT and Tsinghua University sign urban innovation agreement

Future City Innovation Connector to support projects addressing rapid growth of Chinese cities.

September 19, 2017

MIT students, students from the University of Venice, and faculty members from both institutions pose in front of Venice's experimental floodgates as part of a collaborative summer workshop.

Saving Venice, MIT-style

MISTI interns and MIT faculty tackle rising sea level challenges at Italian research camp this summer.

August 23, 2017

D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow Chebet Lesan holds a bag of her company's innovative charcoal briquettes, which are made from recycled waste. Lesan is the founder and CEO of BrightGreen Renewable Energy, which provides affordable, clean, safe, and eco-friendly charcoal briquettes for low-income households in Kenya.

Bringing poverty-alleviating solutions to market in India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda

2017 D-Lab Scale-Ups are tackling energy access, small farm irrigation, portable medical diagnostics, online education, and support for local artisans.

August 16, 2017

Top row (l-r): James Deng, Jesse Feiman, Jessica Gordon. Bottom row: Jorlyn Le Garrec, Albert Lopez, Jiwon Victoria Park.

Six from MIT awarded 2017 Fulbright grants

Grantees will spend the 2017-2018 academic year conducting research abroad.

August 9, 2017

MIT’s Solve initiative seeks solutions to its 2017 global challenges

Applications for problem-solvers interested in four new areas are due August 1.

July 19, 2017

Jessica Myers MCP ’17 completed a graduate thesis in the form of a podcast series entitled “Here There Be Dragons.”

Jessica Myers: Liberté, Égalité, Sécurité

A novel thesis in the form of a podcast gives voice to issues of security and identity in New York and Paris.

July 10, 2017

“This is not the first time that we have seen anti-immigrant sentiments surge in the U.S.,” said MIT Assistant Professor Justin Steil at a recent MIT Starr Forum, The Fight Over Foreigners: Visas and Immigration in the Trump Era. “Despite the fact that most U.S. residents are descended from either voluntary or involuntary migrants, all the way back to Benjamin Franklin there has been skeptic...

3 Questions: Justin Steil on the Trump administration travel ban

Assistant professor of urban studies and planning argues immigration is good for the U.S. and that President Trump's executive order threatens national security.

July 7, 2017

Evaluating approaches to agricultural development

Involving local farmers in tackling a problem can provide long-lasting benefits.

July 6, 2017

“MIT World” is an online map showing the countries of origin of MIT students and scholars from 1999 to present. Blue lines represent undergraduates, red lines represent grad students, and gray lines represent visiting faculty and others.

Academics without borders

Senseable City Lab visualizes 20 years of data to show how students, faculty, and scholars join MIT from all over the world.

June 14, 2017

MISTI participant Andrei Ivanov '16 is pictured with the city of Grenoble, France, in the background.

"Mens et manus" goes global

MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives program will send students to six continents this summer.

May 17, 2017

For great challenges, a global strategy

MIT plan outlines new framework for expanding its international engagement.