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
The MIT-Imperial College London Seed Fund awarded $60,565 to three MIT faculty pursuing joint projects with peers at...
The Emile Bustani Middle East Seminar at MIT is celebrating its 30th anniversary this academic year. This spring semester it...
Yiqing Xu knows a lot about duality. He’s a Chinese citizen steeped in American higher education. He’s an economics student who was drawn to political science. And as a fifth-year doctoral student...
Thanks to a land reclamation project on a set of rocks and reefs in the middle of the sea, M. Taylor Fravel’s research is much in demand these days. His research isn’t about marine biology or...
The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) is sharing updates on MIT activities at COP21 in Paris. For additional coverage of MIT’s COP21-related news and analysis, visit ...
The MIT Energy Initiative is sharing reports from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, where MIT faculty and students are participating as observers to climate negotiations...
Meet Joseff Kolman. A junior majoring in both physics and political science, Kolman is the only MIT undergraduate joining three graduate students and numerous MIT faculty in attending this year’s...
Founded in the midst of the Vietnam War with the vision to use political science to make a difference in the lives of people, MIT’s Department of Political Science remains true to that vision...
At the height of World War II, an unlikely group of scientific heroes travelled from Britain to the United States by way of Canada, clinging tightly to Britain’s most prized scientific war-time...
Earlier this year, the MIT Center for International Studies established the MIT International Policy Lab (IPL), whose mission...
With nations preparing for the global climate talks in Paris under the UN Framework on Climate Change (COP21), an MIT delegation traveled to France on Oct. 27 to meet with European government,...
Big hopes are riding on the 2015 United Nations climate change conference planned for Nov. 30-Dec. 11 in Paris, where more than 190 nations will strive to hammer out an international agreement...
Randall Wright, senior liaison officer with MIT’s Industrial Liaison Program, received the Austrian Decoration of Honor in Gold on Oct. 6, at a reception in his honor at the Austrian Embassy in...
The millions of Syrian refugees displaced by their country’s four-year civil war constitute a major tragedy — and could be a harbinger of even worse problems in the future, a group of scholars and...
In 2010, soon after Haiti was devastated by an earthquake, a team from MIT Lincoln Laboratory collected and analyzed information to help the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM), the lead military...
Carlo Ratti, a professor of the practice in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, has been appointed as a special advisor to the president and commissioners of the European Commission...
On May 28 and 29 at Palácio Foz in Lisbon, U.S.-Portugal partnerships sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (including the MIT Portugal Program) will hold their ...
On May 28 and 29 at Palácio Foz in Lisbon, U.S.-Portugal partnerships sponsored by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (including the MIT Portugal Program) will hold their ...
As world climate leaders prepare for the international climate talks in Paris later this year, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence’s Climate CoLab has launched a new set of contests that...
As world climate leaders prepare for the international climate talks in Paris later this year, the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence’s Climate CoLab has launched a new set of contests that...
Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor and currently the head of MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), has been named associate provost for international...
Richard Lester, the Japan Steel Industry Professor and currently the head of MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), has been named associate provost for international...
As Singapore aims to become a "smart" nation, discovering and harnessing innovations from research institutes, and other industry players, may be a key to success.
Against this...
As Singapore aims to become a "smart" nation, discovering and harnessing innovations from research institutes, and other industry players, may be a key to success.
Against this...
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan visited MIT Monday morning as part of his weeklong trip to the U.S., participating in a roundtable discussion of innovation strategies during his stop at the...