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“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

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz will speak at the 2016 MIT Energy Conference hosted by the MIT Energy Club.

U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz to deliver keynote address at MIT Energy Conference

Moniz joins global energy leaders from industry, government, and academia speaking at student-organized conference on March 4 and 5.

March 1, 2016

The MIT Media Lab and MIT Press have launched the Journal of Design and Science

MIT Media Lab and MIT Press launch Journal of Design and Science

Journal will offer a new, open-access alternative for academic publishing.

February 24, 2016

The Kaymbu app, developed by an MIT Sloan Fellow, records and securely shares video and images of a young child’s classroom experiences with parents.

Media-sharing app for early education catches on nationwide

Teachers can record a child’s learning experiences and securely share them with parents.

February 24, 2016

The 2016 LINC Conference is a global event where digital learning professionals will meet to exchange experiences, ideas, and opinions to advance knowledge in education and technology.

LINC Conference to address how technology can minimize the education gap

Three-day conference aims to help bridge the global education divide through the power of technology.

February 17, 2016

Professor of mechanical engineering Amos Winter (left) and graduate students Natasha Wright (on ladder) and Georgia Van de Zande assemble their desalination system a day before the USAID Desal Prize competition, which they won.

Cleaning water without the grid

MIT researchers have developed a solar-powered desalination system that could significantly increase the groundwater available for drinking in Indian villages.

February 16, 2016

Rainer Weiss

Q&A: Rainer Weiss on LIGO’s origins

MIT physicist developed the concept for LIGO as a teaching exercise.

February 11, 2016

Bryan Reimer (left), associate director of the MIT New England University Transportation Center, speaks with Mark Rosalind, administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, at “The Present and Future of Automated Driving.”

Car talk

At MIT, federal safety chief discusses future of automated driving.

February 10, 2016

Thomas Levenson, professor of science writing and director of the MIT-SHASS Graduate Program in Science Writing

Thomas Levenson receives the 2016 Levitan Prize in the Humanities

Award will support research on the South Sea Bubble crisis as an example of connections between scientific developments and their larger social consequences.

February 2, 2016

MIT has announced several Institute-wide initiatives aimed at coordinating and expanding its programs in residential and digital education, at all levels of teaching and learning.

FAQs: Reshaping MIT’s programs in online and digital education

New initiatives aim to accelerate learning research and its applications.

February 2, 2016

The integrated science of learning — now emerging as a significant field of research — will be the core of MITili (pronounced “mightily”), a cross-disciplinary, Institute-wide initiative to foster rigorous quantitative and qualitative research on how people learn.

New initiatives accelerate learning research and its applications

Gabrieli, Belcher, Sarma leading new efforts to understand learning, improve it at all levels of education.

February 2, 2016

"Even when you have great technology, you need some incentive for people to reduce pollution. We need to find ways to make the benefit of reducing pollution felt by the ones who are paying the cost of reducing pollution." —Ariel Zucker, MIT doctoral student in economics

Incentives matter

Working with the Tata Center, two MIT economics students are testing projects to reduce industrial pollution in India.

January 29, 2016

Georgia Perakis, the William F. Pounds Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management

Georgia Perakis: On the road to better energy data

MIT professor uses operations research and optimization modeling to investigate topics from traffic flows to subsidies for green energy technologies.

January 27, 2016

CLIx will offer young people, especially from lower- and middle-income rural areas of India, access to interactive, hands-on learning experiences to advance their knowledge and skills, and to instill values to help them succeed as professionals and citizens, with a focus on cultivating students’ sense of professionalism.

MIT joins collaboration to bring connected learning experiences to Indian students and teachers

Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) will integrate technology for active learning in secondary schools.

January 27, 2016

The SHASS Research Fund supports MIT research in the humanities, arts, or social sciences that shows promise of making an important contribution to the proposed area of activity.

Ten MIT-SHASS Research Fund recipients announced for 2016

January 25, 2016