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April 12 symposium: Take an immersive, intellectual journey across campus

Beyond 2016: MIT’s Frontiers of the Future event offers a playful introduction to research at MIT.

April 5, 2016

Split screen of the Imperial College London and MIT

MIT-Imperial College London Seed Fund winners announced

New seed fund encourages collaboration between faculty at MIT and Imperial College London.

April 1, 2016

MacVicar Day panelists: (l-r) Janet Rankin, Martin Culpepper, Robert Miller, Catherine Drennan, David Darmofal, and Michael Cuthbert.

Evidence-based teaching is alive and well at MIT

MacVicar Day symposium features a sampling of innovative pedagogical practices and lessons learned.

April 1, 2016

Prominent MIT economist and dean Lester Thurow dies at 77

Scholar and public intellectual examined globalization and its consequences.

March 29, 2016

J-PAL North America launches health care delivery innovation competition

Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT aims to help U.S. health care leaders find solutions to key challenges in health care delivery.

March 24, 2016

Sourcemap gives companies a visual map of all connected global supplier locations for their products. The software also pulls news feeds on significant political events or environmental disasters to alert companies to potential interruptions.

Plotting the complex path of products

Startup’s software maps out convoluted supply chains for companies and consumers

March 23, 2016

“As I wrote in the book, Brazil is rarely doing as well as people think in good times, nor as badly as people think in tough times. But this crisis is certainly among the worst, with no end yet in sight,” says Ben Ross Schneider, editor of a new volume on the country, “New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil,” published this month by Oxford University Press.

3 Questions: Ben Ross Schneider on Brazil’s crisis moment

As political scandal swirls, are there still signs of progress?

March 22, 2016

“We propose that you use the carbon tax in moderation and use research subsidies for clean technology in order to make that transition [to clean technology] faster,” Daron Acemoglu says.

Power play

Study shows how more R&D funding can accelerate the world energy revolution.

March 15, 2016

Learning to think like an engineer

Neerja Aggarwal reflects on her love for theater, ultimate Frisbee, and electrical engineering.

March 9, 2016

“It certainly is the case that trade contributes to certain lower-priced goods and services, and on the average, that lowers the cost of living,” David Autor notes. “But for displaced workers, the fact that things are 10 percent cheaper at Walmart is just not making up for the fact that they’re not employed.”

Trading places

Economists take a new look at the evidence that the U.S. has lost millions of jobs to China.

March 9, 2016

2016 MacVicar Faculty Fellows: (clockwise from top left) Patty Tang, Jeffrey Grossman, Michael Sipser, and Srinivas Devadas

Four professors named 2016 MacVicar Faculty Fellows

Devadas, Grossman, Sipser, and Tang awarded MIT’s highest undergraduate teaching award.

March 7, 2016

Radius Ensemble (left to right, from top): Noriko Futagami Herndon, viola; Sarah Brady, flute; Jennifer Montbach, oboe and artistic director; Sarah Bob, piano; Miriam Bolkosky, cello; Adrian Morejon, bassoon; Anne Howarth, horn; Gabriela Diaz, violin; Eran Egozy, clarinet.

3Q: A world-premiere concert where the audience helps play

MIT’s Eran Egozy on “12,” a chamber music debut with smartphone-driven percussion.

March 3, 2016

“The question I was beginning to ask was: How is it that Africa is not accounted for in technology studies?” says Clapperton Mavhunga. “How is it we are only accounted for in our social history and our suffering as victims? That’s when this inquiry that took me to MIT began.”

Stealth technology

Clapperton Mavhunga’s work uncovers an Africa where technology is abundant and sophisticated.

March 2, 2016

MIT students take a tour of Derneng, a factory located in the Guangdong province, China.

MIT students tour factories in China’s manufacturing hub

During Independent Activities Period, students traveled to the Guangdong province for a behind-the-scenes look as part of the MISTI-China Program.

March 1, 2016

“Why Only Us: Language and Evolution” (MIT Press), by Robert C. Berwick (top left) and Noam Chomsky (bottom left)

Code of the humans

New book by Noam Chomsky and Robert Berwick explores how people acquired unique language skills.