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
Every student in the MIT Leaders for Global Operations program travels for internships and plant treks, but not many wind up working in Africa. Unless they're part of Global Health Delivery Lab (...
MPC Associate Director Mark Beals, in collaboration with the MIT Industrial Liaison...
Policymakers, university and private sector leaders, and entrepreneurs from seven regions around the world are coming together to accelerate their regions' entrepreneurial ecosystems, thanks to the...
If you ask MIT students where they see themselves in a few years, you’ll get a wide range of answers — but almost all will be on dry land. MIT senior Cameron McCord feels a different calling: the...
If you ask MIT students where they see themselves in a few years, you’ll get a wide range of answers — but almost all will be on dry land. MIT senior Cameron McCord feels a different calling: the...
The following is adapted from a press release issued today by edX.
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative composed of the leading global institutions of the xConsortium...
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative composed of the leading global institutions of the xConsortium...
Several MIT undergraduate and graduate students and alumni — Noam Angrist, Marvin Arnold, Dorothy Brown, Hyunjii (Justina) Cho, Deborah Hanus and Marisa Lau — have been awarded Fulbright study/...
The United States continues to work closely with Portugal to find ways to expand and deepen two-way trade and investment to better reflect historically strong political, geostrategic and security...
“All societies periodically have to do soul-searching,” states Melissa Nobles, the Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science. With research that illuminates historic episodes of racial and...
At a health clinic in Guatemala, Paula Trepman watched as a visiting physician from the United States showed local workers how to properly administer a labor-inducing drug to pregnant women — a...
D-Lab Scale-Ups, launched in 2011, piloted its acceleration platform for MIT alumni innovators and entrepreneurs last year. The fellowship program provides financial and mentoring support to...
Fourteen teams will participate in this year’s MIT Global Founders’ Skills Accelerator (MIT GFSA), an international entrepreneurship program that...
The humidification-dehumidification (HDH) carrier gas extraction process developed by Prakash Narayan...
In a 90-minute visit to the MIT campus today, British Prime Minister David Cameron met with President L. Rafael Reif and Media Lab director Joichi Ito, faculty members and students, and a group of...
One of the most popular online destinations on the MIT network is not a website for scientists, engineers or college students, but an online community where kids learn to code.
Every day,...
Every day,...
Vikalp Sabhlok MSMS ’13, grew up in a small city in India where the electricity supply was notoriously unreliable. Now, as a student in MIT Sloan’s Master of Science in Management Studies (MSMS)...
Rebecca Richards-Kortum and Maria Oden established the Beyond Traditional Borders (BTB) engineering design initiative at Rice...
Earlier this year, the New York Times declared 2012 the “Year of the MOOC.” Massive open online courses have captured the public imagination because they offer a blueprint for a fundamental...
During her free time back in high school, Madeline Salazar was often surrounded by piles of balsa wood in her house in East Los Angeles, sanding down her carefully designed bridges for engineering...
Like many Nigerians, MIT graduate student Chidube Ezeozue grew up frustrated by his nation’s erratic electrical grid.
“Electrical outages are a huge problem in Nigeria,” says Ezeozue, who...
“Electrical outages are a huge problem in Nigeria,” says Ezeozue, who...
MIT and Haiti signed a new joint initiative today to promote Kreyòl-language education in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines, part of an effort to help Haitians learn in...
The tense, unusual standoff between China and Japan over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, and the lack of an obvious resolution to the situation, were apparent during a panel discussion at...
The tense, unusual standoff between China and Japan over uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, and the lack of an obvious resolution to the situation, were apparent during a panel discussion at...
NAFSA: Association of International Educators has announced that MIT’s flagship international education program, MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI), will receive the 2013...
As a child, Paul Lazarescu dreamed of becoming an inventor.
“I always loved building things,” he says. “For my birthday presents, I’d get remote-control cars and kits, and I once tried to...
“I always loved building things,” he says. “For my birthday presents, I’d get remote-control cars and kits, and I once tried to...