Special events and guest speakers

Author and guest speaker Janet Mock (right) and discussion moderator Syn Odu

MIT Reads hosts author Janet Mock

Shared reading sparks timely conversation about gender, race, and community.

November 29, 2016

On Nov. 17, the MIT Festival Jazz Ensemble, led by Fred Harris, delivered Mark Harvey’s composition “No Walls,” an anthem to inclusiveness inspired by Duke Ellington’s credo of living and making music “beyond category.”

“Uniting through Voice and Song” event celebrates values that connect the MIT community

November 22, 2016

Tamara Broderick, assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, was a presenter at the 2016 Machine Intelligence Summit.

Meeting of the minds for machine intelligence

Industry leaders, computer scientists, and venture capitalists gather to discuss how smarter computers are remaking our world.

November 22, 2016

Left to right: Carlos Gonçalves, MIT Portugal visiting student; Shenghua Wu, MIT Portugal visiting Scholar; Carolina Furtado, MIT Portugal visiting student; Manuel Heitor, Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal; Gonçalo Pereira, MIT postdoc; and Golnar Hejazi, MIT Portugal visiting student.

Manuel Heitor, Portuguese minister for science, technology, and higher education, visits MIT

Visit aims to strengthen the scientific and technological cooperation between Portugal and the United States.

November 18, 2016

MIT students and alumni celebrated Senior House's 100th birthday on Nov. 5.

Senior House turns 100

Birthday party builds community, celebrates culture.

November 17, 2016

The TechCon conference, hosted by MIT and USAID's Higher Education Solutions Network from Nov. 10 - 12, convened researchers and innovators to collaborate on solving global issues.

At TechCon, science-based solutions for world issues

Innovators and researchers tackle global issues through actionable research and collaboration.

November 15, 2016

A capacity crowd at the New England Aquarium's Omni Theater enjoyed the 2016 John H. Carlson Lecture, "Big Ice: Antarctica, Greenland, and Boston," presented by Penn State University Professor Richard Alley.

Big ice, big science

Richard Alley delivers 2016 Carlson Lecture on the physics of glaciers and how ice sheets capture a history of the world’s climate.

November 14, 2016

On Nov. 2, more than 800 MIT alumni and friends gathered in San Francisco for the second in a series of regional events in support of the MIT Campaign for a Better World.

Record-setting crowd celebrates the MIT Campaign for a Better World at San Francisco’s City Hall

Hong Kong will be the next stop on MIT's Better World global tour.

November 7, 2016

MIT Vice President for Open Learning Sanjay Sarma (right) hosts Charles Chen Yidan of the Yidan Prize Foundation to announce MIT as a nominator for the Yidan Prize.

Yidan Prize for Education Research and Education Development announced at MIT

MIT was the first stop on a world tour for the Yidan Prize Foundation's launch of a new $3.9 million education award.

October 31, 2016

“If we hope for serious solutions to the world’s great challenges, we need to make sure the innovators working on those problems see a realistic pathway to the marketplace,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif said at an Oct. 26 event celebrating the launch of The Engine.

Revving up The Engine for global change

“At MIT, it is our duty to bring transformative innovation to the world,” President Reif said at launch event for new enterprise.

October 28, 2016

Grad student Juliana Philippa Kerrest drops a marble into the “Helping You, Helping Others” glass sculpture in the Student Center as a visible testament to personal experiences of help-seeking at MIT.

Sculpture in the Student Center encourages help-seeking

Four students helped launch a campus-wide art installation and shared personal stories of help-seeking, advocacy, and resilience.

October 27, 2016

MIT Technology Review editor-in-chief and publisher Jason Pontin moderates a panel with semifinalists in the Solve: Learn crowdsourced ideas contest.

Improving educational opportunities for refugee youth around the world

Three proposals in MIT Solve's “Learn” pillar advance to finals.

October 26, 2016

MIT President L. Rafael Reif shared his vision for the future of MIT with more than 600 alumni and friends of the Institute at a New York City gathering in support of the MIT Campaign for a Better World. "Tonight, we ask everyone here to join us in the challenge," he said.

Hundreds join President Reif in NYC to celebrate MIT’s community and mission

San Francisco will be the next stop on MIT's Better World global tour.

October 25, 2016

Solve at HUBweek took place at the MIT Media Lab on Sept. 27 and 28. Participants selected online through an open innovation platform pitched their ideas for meeting a range of challenges, from removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, to educating children in refugee camps around the world.

Sparking conversations, spurring solutions

Solve and HUBweek bring together cutting-edge thinkers and doers, from Greater Boston and beyond.

October 21, 2016

This desalination plant in Israel, called Sorek, is currently the world's largest, producing 625,000 cubic meters of fresh water per day. Boris Liberman, chief technology officer of IDE Technologies, the company that built this and several other huge desalination plants in Israel and California, was among the speakers at MIT's Low Carbon Desalination Workshop, which explored the potential for redu...

How to achieve “green” desalination

Workshop explores ways to reduce or eliminate the carbon footprint of seawater desalination plants.

October 19, 2016

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