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“It started informally as my way of giving back to the MIT community,” says MIT junior Benjamin Chan. His daily chalkboard project welcomes students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the Stata Center.

Mind, hand, heart — and chalk

A daily art project conceived by MIT student Benjamin Chan welcomes students, faculty, staff, and visitors to the Stata Center.

January 13, 2016

“I think the flexibility of having the opportunity to discover what you're interested in, to pursue these things, and to create a space for yourself where you can feel comfortable was what drove me to MIT,” Larissa Senatus says.

Larissa Senatus learns about the world by doing

Mechanical engineering major hopes to bring hands-on learning opportunities home to Haiti.

January 13, 2016

Left to right: Annabeth Gellman, Alexander Springer, and Kelsey Jamieson.

Three from MIT named inaugural Schwarzman Scholars

New award pays for one-year master's at Tsinghua University in China.

January 11, 2016

Life in the aftermath

MIT historian’s book explores life for Armenians in modern Turkey.

January 8, 2016

“I was always very interested in current events and fascinated by what was happening in the world around me,” MIT historian Tanalís Padilla says. “My parents were very political. I considered myself quite a political being. … I think [living in] Mexico and the United States and seeing the contrast to be so great, especially in rural Mexico, made me aware [of politics] early on.”

Past and present

MIT’s Tanalís Padilla brings alive the history of political struggles in Mexico.

January 4, 2016

MIT grad student Leah Rosenzweig coordinating data collection in Jigawa, Nigeria

New insights on political participation in Sub-Sahara Africa

PhD student Leah Rosenzweig's electoral insights shed light on reasons for citizen participation in authoritarian and transitional countries in Sub-Sahara Africa.

December 21, 2015

People building their own devices for transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) have often invested substantial time looking at academic research on the subject. “They do look to scientific papers and in a lot of ways they do follow scientific precedent,” PhD student Anna Wexler says. “In other ways, they do their own thing.”

Stimulus plan?

Interest is growing in brain stimulation devices — and regulating them may prove tricky.

December 18, 2015

Yiqing Xu, MIT PhD candidate in political science

Building analytical tools to improve understanding of China's political economy

PhD student Yiqing Xu applies new methodology for better insight into the Chinese political economy.

December 15, 2015

MIT-Japan activities over IAP

December 15, 2015

"At l’Institut de la Vision, I helped develop a tool that is changing how biology is viewed — literally. I now plan to continue research full-time in a lab or company, ideally in France, after graduation." –Sunanda Sharma, MIT-France Program participant

MIT-France: Bolstering connections between MIT and the world

MIT political scientist Suzanne Berger provides perspective on MIT-France, one of the flagship programs of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives.

December 14, 2015

M. Taylor Fravel, associate professor of Political Science and member of the Security Studies Program

M. Taylor Fravel advises U.S. government officials on South China Sea disputes

Research merges security policy, political science, and international relations.

December 11, 2015

Prize-winner Sarah Schwartz SM '15 is now a journalist at Science News.

Sarah Schwartz SM '15 wins first Obermayer Prize for science writing

MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing and Program in Science, Technology, and Society honor Schwartz for her essay on the history of synthetic penicillin.

December 4, 2015

“Symbolically, the IMF has raised the status of the renminbi by placing it in the same category as the dollar, euro, yen, and pound,” David Singer says.

3 Questions: David Singer on China and the renminbi

MIT political scientist looks beyond the headlines about China’s new currency status.

December 4, 2015

The Morris and Sophie Chang Building (foreground left) borders the vibrant Kendall Square technology hub.

MIT to name signature building on the Charles River in honor of Morris and Sophie Chang

December 2, 2015

MIT political scientists Christopher Warshaw and Devin Caughey have developed a new method to assess historical shifts in U.S. state politics. The chart shows the position of state policies on the political spectrum, in both 1936 and 2014, with more liberal aggregate policies at left, and more conservative aggregate policies at right. The two maps show the political orientation of states in 1940 a...

Mapping the history of U.S. state politics

Unique new study shows political orientation of all 50 U.S. states over time.

December 1, 2015

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