3 Questions: Tracking MIT graduates’ career trajectories
Deborah Liverman, executive director of MIT Career Advising and Professional Development, offers a window into undergraduate and graduate students’ post-graduation paths.
Lara Ozkan named 2025 Marshall Scholar
The MIT senior will pursue graduate studies in the UK at Cambridge University and Imperial College London.
Street smarts
Andres Sevtsuk applies new sources of data to creating more sustainable, walkable, and economically thriving city spaces.
In a unique research collaboration, students make the case for less e-waste
SERC Scholars from around the MIT community examine the electronic hardware waste life cycle and climate justice.
Enabling a circular economy in the built environment
A better understanding of construction industry stakeholders’ motivations can lead to greater adoption of circular practices.
Study: Some language reward models exhibit political bias
Research from the MIT Center for Constructive Communication finds this effect occurs even when reward models are trained on factual data.
MIT delegation mainstreams biodiversity conservation at the UN Biodiversity Convention, COP16
First organized MIT delegation highlights the Institute's growing commitment to addressing climate change by showcasing research on biodiversity conservation, AI, and the role of local communities.
MIT K. Lisa Yang Center for Bionics celebrates Sierra Leone’s inaugural class of orthotic and prosthetic clinicians
MIT and Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Health launch specialized program to train future clinicians on the fabrication of artificial limbs and braces for people with disabilities.
A data designer driven to collaborate with communities
Associate Professor Catherine D’Ignazio thinks carefully about how we acquire and display data — and why we lack it for many things.
A model of virtuosity
Acclaimed keyboardist Jordan Rudess’s collaboration with the MIT Media Lab culminates in live improvisation between an AI “jam_bot” and the artist.
Ensuring a durable transition
Progress on the energy transition depends on collective action benefiting all stakeholders, agreed participants in MITEI’s annual research conference.
Dancing with currents and waves in the Maldives
Collaborating with a local climate technology company, MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab is pursuing scalable erosion solutions that mimic nature, harnessing ocean currents to expand islands and rebuild coastlines.
Remembering Nicolaas John Habraken
Influential architect, educator, and former head of the MIT Department of Architecture “invented, investigated, challenged, and inspired.”
A new focus on understanding the human element
The MIT Human Insight Collaborative will elevate the human-centered disciplines and unite the Institute’s top scholars to help solve the world’s biggest challenges.
Artist and designer Es Devlin awarded Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MIT
Exploring biodiversity, linguistic diversity, and collective AI-generated poetry, her work will be honored with a $100K prize, artist residency, and public lecture at MIT in spring 2025.