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
Six MIT faculty members from across the Institute have been appointed to one-year terms as Skolkovo Foundation Professors. The MIT-based appointments recognize significant engagement in the...
Tuhin Bagi's dream is to attend MIT and work as an automobile engineer. Photo courtesy of Tuhin Bagi...
A team of MIT researchers spanning four MIT departments — architecture; civil and environmental engineering; earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences; and nuclear science and engineering — has been...
The Royal Academy of Engineering has announced that Tim Berners-Lee, the 3COM Founders Professor of Engineering at MIT, has been named one of the winners of the inaugural...
Every year, MIT senior Marisa Simmons bakes a 10-layer cake from scratch for her dorm. Her first attempt, as a freshman, toppled sideways, but Simmons has since engineered a structurally sound pastry...
Lady Barbara Judge has a unique global perspective on nuclear power, combining top-level financial and legal experience with oversight and advisory roles in nuclear energy efforts in the United...
Around the world, people watched in horror as an earthquake and tsunami struck Japan on March 11, 2011, soon followed by the slow-motion meltdown of a nuclear reactor in Fukushima. In the days and...
MIT Professional Education offered "Radical Innovation" — a short course by Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering — to industry professionals...
Brian Haggerty little suspected last spring that he would soon find himself in the middle of a major U.S. foreign policy debate. A PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science, Haggerty wrote...
For U.S. citizens, the initial challenge of starting a business in America could be scraping together startup funds; for foreign-born entrepreneurs, the challenge is usually staying in the country...
MIT senior Joy Ekuta is a woman on the move: The brain and cognitive sciences major has made friends in the six states where she’s lived and colleagues in the five countries where she’s researched...
Twelve MIT students and 15 Russian students from leading Moscow universities participated last month in the IAP “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Networks” course in Russia.
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The D-Lab Scale-Ups fellowship program is a year-old acceleration platform for MIT innovators and entrepreneurs turning poverty alleviating technologies into commercially scalable products. With...
Open minds. Great attitudes. Heartfelt appreciation for MIT and its contributions to the world. These are the qualities of the 19 recipients of this year’s Excellence Awards. While they represent a...
Edgerton instructors Ed Moriarty, Alban Cobi and Jessica Garrett spent ten days this month leading two groups of 32 middle and high school students from Beijing, China, in science and engineering...
The speakers for the inaugural Scaling Development Ventures (SDV) conference who had to travel from farthest away — from Nigeria, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, Kenya, Indonesia, Ghana, India, Scotland and...
Three years ago, Laura Chirot was living in Vietnam, conducting policy research in the country she fell in love with in college and had returned to repeatedly. As part of her work, she became...
Three years ago, Laura Chirot was living in Vietnam, conducting policy research in the country she fell in love with in college and had returned to repeatedly. As part of her work, she became...
Mohamed Harding is a 17-year-old student from Freetown, Sierra Leone, whose passion for electronics lends a whole new meaning to the notion of “do-it-yourself.” Despite growing up in one of the...
Last month, the United Nations Environment Programme agreed on the first major environmental treaty in over a decade, with a focus on reducing mercury pollution. In attendance at the...
For immigrants, the path to citizenship in many countries is filled with hurdles: finding a job, learning the language, passing exams. But for some people, the biggest obstacle of all may be one they...
Lerna Ekmekcioglu was born on the dividing line between two cultures, Turkish and Armenian. A native speaker of both languages, she brings a unique perspective to her area of research — examining how...
The MIT BLOSSOMS Initiative (Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies) has been implemented at the University of Technology in Malaysia (UTM), according to MIT Professor Richard C. Larson...
If you’re reading this, odds are you’ve already used running water in your home today. But you’re in a minority: Globally, at least a billion people have no nearby source of water, while of the...
Ten MIT students will join officials from around the world in Geneva, Switzerland, for the fifth and final meeting to address global controls on mercury, which will take place Jan. 13-18. It is...