New program from MIT offers refugees a career boost
ReACT will award credentials in computer and data science through online and in-person instruction.
Students launch products that help users harness their superpowers
In final presentation for mechanical engineering class, students unveil new products based on superhero theme.
Featured video: Learning lessons from teaching others
Computer science major Melanie Chen serves as teaching assistant, curriculum developer, and mentor to high school students in a unique MIT program.
Harnessing a “meritocracy of great ideas”
Using a broad design approach, students are developing and evaluating changes to the first-year undergraduate experience.
Making others’ voices heard through education and journalism
Senior Drew Bent hopes to level the educational playing field of the future.
Physicists design $100 handheld muon detector
Pocket-sized device detects charged particles in surrounding air.
Bringing design thinking into nuclear science and engineering
Nuclear Systems Design class immerses students in the design and communications skills needed to produce innovations.
Visiting Professor Anita Hill leads conversations about Title IX
Attorney, author, and civil-rights advocate moderates The Gender/Race Imperative, a series of talks at MIT about equality in education.
Mary Clare Beytagh: Finding poetry in medicine
MIT senior and aspiring physician aims to tell stories that humanize the patients behind medical statistics.
Connecting through conversation
Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.
MIT-Haiti, Google team up to boost education in Kreyòl
Institute-led effort to create STEM lexicon is now available for global translation.
High School teams awarded 2017-18 Lemelson-MIT InvenTeam grant for invention projects
Fifteen student teams nationwide address local problems through invention.
Bridging the science-policy divide
For MIT senior Talia Weiss, physics and theater have provided a springboard for new interests in political science.
Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab holds inaugural J-WEL Week
Educators, researchers, policy makers, and technologists from 27 countries gather to spark a global renaissance in education for all learners.