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
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...
There’s a tricky chemical trade-off at work in our skies. As greenhouse gases provide their famous warming effect to Earth’s surface, aerosol pollution in the atmosphere actually partly counteracts...
MIT professors Michael Artin and Robert Langer are among eight recipients worldwide of the 2013 Wolf Prize, the Israel-based Wolf Foundation announced this week.
The prestigious...
The prestigious...
President Barack Obama has announced he intends to appoint...
In late October, faculty and staff from MIT joined leaders from the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology and partnering institutions in Moscow, Russia, to reflect on one year of collaborative...
Philip Khoury, MIT associate provost and Ford International Professor of History, shares his thoughts on foreign policy in the Middle East, MIT's relationship to the policymaking community and how...
Last weekend, 650 students were offered early-action undergraduate admission to MIT’s Class of 2017. The 6,541 students who applied to MIT during the early-action period represent a 9 percent...
Gediminas Urbonas, the Mitsui Career Development Associate Professor in Contemporary...
The Legatum Center at MIT recently hosted five members of the MasterCard Foundation Youth Think Tank, which was founded to engage young people from Africa to bring insight into issues facing the...
David Moinina Sengeh considers himself a lucky man — and one who feels the importance of living every day to the fullest. During Sierra Leone’s fierce civil war, as bands of child-soldiers roamed the...
Shortly after Juan Esteban Montero began MIT’s System Design and Management program (SDM) last January, he looked for students who shared his passion for the natural resources industry. He was able...
Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE) Jacopo Buongiorno and NSE Research Scientist Thomas McKrell have been awarded $412,000 by the French Alternative Energies and Atomic...
Maria T. Zuber, the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics, will become MIT’s next vice president for research, President L. Rafael Reif announced today. Zuber chaired MIT’s Department of Earth,...
Fatih Birol, chief economist of the Paris-based International Energy Agency, is the lead author of an eye-catching new report projecting that the United States will become the world’s leading oil...
The quest to harness a broader spectrum of sunlight’s energy to produce electricity has taken a radically new turn, with the proposal of a “solar energy funnel” that takes advantage of materials...
John G. Brisson II, professor of mechanical engineering, has been named director of the MIT/SUTD Collaboration Office, fostering MIT’s ongoing partnership with the...
Victor Zue, the Delta Electronics Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT and the director of international relations for the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence...
A decade ago, in the early days of the innovative MIT classes and field trips known collectively as D-Lab, the project aimed to develop creative solutions to problems facing people in the world’s...
MIT will receive up to $25 million in funding from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as part of a new five-year...
Eighteen new works by Media Arts and Sciences Assistant Professor Neri Oxman were on exhibit this summer at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of Creative Multiversities, an exhibition devoted to...
Five MIT students — C.J. Enloe (Course 14); Sara Comis, Saul Lopez and Franco Montalvo (Course 2); and Elise Myers (Course 12) — spent last semester in Madrid participating in the MIT-Madrid Program...
BP announced today that it is renewing its commitment to MIT's Energy Initiative (MITEI) through an agreement to provide another $25 million for...
Photos: M. Scott Brauer and Stuart Darsch
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Ballot stuffing. Assassination. Revolution. The talk around the dinner table during F. Daniel Hidalgo’s formative years was unlike that of most kids. Hidalgo’s father worked in politics in Mexico...
MIT Associate Professor of Linguistics Michel DeGraff recently received a...