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
Many farms in drought-prone regions of the U.S. rely on drip irrigation as a water-saving method to grow crops. These systems pump water through long thin tubes that stretch across farm fields....
Many highly populated coastal regions around the globe suffer from severe drought conditions. In an effort to deliver fresh water to these regions, while also considering how to produce the water...
Launched in 2014, the MIT-Arab World Program — a part of MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (...
They came to MIT on different schedules, from different academic backgrounds, with different research and educational goals. But the four junior faculty members from a growing technology...
With an MIT degree in humanities and engineering fields, and a social science minor, Samuel Rodarte ’13 could have found a top job in almost...
Elizabeth Rider didn’t think much about college until she got a laptop. Then she discovered blogs and Tumblr accounts of other ambitious high school students who were applying to competitive...
The President of the Republic of Mauritius, Ameenah Gurib-Fakim — a trained scientist and a leader in encouraging innovation in Africa — on Friday visited MIT, where she discussed new ways to...
The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design has selected 14 proposals to receive funding during the 2017-18 academic year. Chosen from a highly competitive field of more than 50 submissions, the...
The foodborne pathogen Escherichia coli O157 causes an estimated 73,000 illnesses and 60 deaths every year in the United States. Better safety tests could help avoid some of the illnesses...
These are fraught times for scholars of security studies, perhaps even more so for those engaged with Asia. Just as the 20th century was proclaimed “the American century,” many observers today...
The city of Tel Aviv was the fifth of eight stops on the Better World tour, celebrating MIT’s historic...
MIT and 30 other colleges and universities today filed an amicus brief in the federal appeals court for the Fourth Circuit, arguing that President Trump’s latest executive order, like its...
The political leaders of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates have an indefatigable belief in the promise of innovation. So when this future-focused city decided they needed help building their own...
Evan Denmark acted in a lot of high school productions. Looking back, the biggest challenge of his theater career in Sandwich, Massachusetts, wasn’t performing in front of an audience — it was...
The Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) welcomed MIT’s President Emerita Susan Hockfield to the Iconic Voices from MIT public lecture series on March 21, at the SUTD auditorium....
In February, the Edgerton Center hosted 60 10th-grade students from the Beijing Chenjinglun School in Beijing, China, for a workshop on underwater remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). The visit was...
MIT faculty, students, and alumni consistently find creative ways to apply their knowledge to local contexts, collaborating with partners around the globe to make the world a better place....
Nearly 25 percent of the world’s malnourished population lives in sub-Saharan Africa, where more than 300 million people depend on corn, or maize, as their main food source. Maize is the most...
“Despite its size and many geopolitical constraints,” says Eran Ben-Joseph, MIT professor and head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, “Israel has emerged in the last decades as a...
Leaders of cement and concrete industry organizations from 11 countries and regions from around the U.S. met with researchers from the MIT Concrete...
Zachary Hulcher was once set on becoming a lawyer. In high school, he took part in mock trials and competed in youth judicial, playing the role of legal counsel and presenting cases in front of a...
Hermoon Worku never missed a day of elementary school until fifth grade, when she began fainting frequently. At a regular check-up, her pediatrician realized that Worku was severely anemic. Her...
Hospitals, governments, school systems, and many other institutions gather a wealth of data on individuals for operational purposes. MIT-based J-PAL North America recently launched a...
MIT and 16 other institutions filed an amicus brief Monday with the federal court in the Eastern District of New York, in Darweesh, et al. v. Donald Trump. In their brief, the...
Addressing the 21st century’s great challenges requires the world’s best minds to come together and collaborate on solutions. That is why, reflecting the borderless nature of science and...