Global Connections

“Today, we need to prepare our students for their inevitably global careers. In the great MIT tradition of learning by doing, we believe that means making sure that they gain direct experience of the world beyond.”                                                                                                 - Susan Hockfield

February 26, 2019

In recent years, there has been widespread excitement around the transformative potential of technology in education. In the United States alone, spending on education technology has now exceeded...

February 14, 2019

MIT is known for its thriving innovation ecosystem: Numerous programs and funding mechanisms have evolved to ensure that new technologies and business models developed on campus can move beyond it...

February 11, 2019

Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of atoms in its structure enough to cause dramatic changes in its...

February 11, 2019

Applying just a bit of strain to a piece of semiconductor or other crystalline material can deform the orderly arrangement of atoms in its structure enough to cause dramatic changes in its...

February 11, 2019

New rigorous learning environments, cultural expansion, career insight, and renewed confidence are just some of the benefits cited by MIT students participating in the new ...

February 11, 2019

New rigorous learning environments, cultural expansion, career insight, and renewed confidence are just some of the benefits cited by MIT students participating in the new ...

February 07, 2019

By his own admission, Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez was underprepared to move to Zurich for a semester during his junior year. His cell phone plan didn’t work, he’d forgotten to change his money...

February 07, 2019

By his own admission, Héctor Javier Vázquez Martínez was underprepared to move to Zurich for a semester during his junior year. His cell phone plan didn’t work, he’d forgotten to change his money...

February 06, 2019

Eugene A. Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings-Singapore MIT Alliance Professor of Materials Engineering at MIT, has been appointed chief executive officer and director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance...

February 06, 2019

Eugene A. Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings-Singapore MIT Alliance Professor of Materials Engineering at MIT, has been appointed chief executive officer and director of the Singapore-MIT Alliance...

February 01, 2019

The latest round of United Nations climate talks in Poland in December sought to get the world on track to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of...

February 01, 2019

The latest round of United Nations climate talks in Poland in December sought to get the world on track to meet the 2015 Paris Agreement’s long-term goal of...

January 28, 2019

Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction, with the first...

January 28, 2019

Imagine a world where smartphones, laptops, wearables, and other electronics are powered without batteries. Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have taken a step in that direction, with the first...

January 27, 2019

“Representing the Skating Club of Boston, please welcome now, Kevin Shum!” says the announcer at the 2018 U.S. Collegiate National Championship...

January 27, 2019

“Representing the Skating Club of Boston, please welcome now, Kevin Shum!” says the announcer at the 2018 U.S. Collegiate National Championship...

January 14, 2019

J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT, has announced a new call for...

January 14, 2019

J-PAL North America, a research center at MIT, has announced a new call for...

January 09, 2019

J-PAL North America, a research center in the Department of Economics, has announced the fourth round of its State and Local Innovation Initiative...

January 09, 2019

J-PAL North America, a research center in the Department of Economics, has announced the fourth round of its State and Local Innovation Initiative...

December 19, 2018

More than half of all the energy used to power mechanical, chemical, and other processes is expelled into the environment as heat. Power plants, car engines, and industrial processes, for example...

December 19, 2018

MIT researchers have demonstrated a new way to store unused heat from car engines, industrial machinery, and even sunshine until it’s needed. Central to their system is what the researchers refer...

December 10, 2018

Sports were the most common pastimes in the small beachside community of Arroyo Grande, California, where Kathleen Schwind grew up. She herself settled on track and field and volleyball. But her...

December 10, 2018

Sports were the most common pastimes in the small beachside community of Arroyo Grande, California, where Kathleen Schwind grew up. She herself settled on track and field and volleyball. But her...

December 10, 2018

Sports were the most common pastimes in the small beachside community of Arroyo Grande, California, where Kathleen Schwind grew up. She herself settled on track and field and volleyball. But her...

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