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 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community...
Much has been made of graphene’s exceptional qualities, from its ability to conduct heat and electricity better than any other material to its unparalleled strength: Worked into a composite material...
Since its inception in 2000, more than 600 students have participated in the Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME), an...
During the 2011-2012 academic year, more than 700 MIT undergraduates participated in global opportunities. Students traveled to 41 countries across five continents to take part in MIT International...
The 2012 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded earlier this week to two researchers for their work with light...
Cathy Culot takes comics very seriously. A lecturer in MIT's Foreign Languages and Literatures section, Culot grew up in Belgium, a country in which comic-strip albums today represent 60 percent of...
MIT has been ranked the No. 5 university in the world in the latest Times Higher Education (THE) rankings, which were released this week.
In rankings by discipline, MIT was ranked first in...
In rankings by discipline, MIT was ranked first in...
What is citizenship and how is it affected by race and gender? How have concepts of identity evolved over time? And what role do race and gender play in contemporary border conflicts? These are among...
The Legatum Center at MIT is pleased to announce the expansion of the Legatum Fellowship program. The education of the fellows now begins with a summer curriculum designed to prepare the students for...
Victoria Okuneye
Photo: Allegra Boverman
Decisions aren...
In addition to her research on decision-making and her courses in brain and cognitive...
Before an enthusiastic crowd under a huge pavilion in MIT’s Killian Court, the Institute’s 17th president, L. Rafael Reif, used the occasion of his inauguration to embrace the coming changes that he...
For all the innovations that come out of MIT’s labs, a symposium held on the morning of President L. Rafael Reif’s inauguration underscored the many ways in which the Institute is pursuing...
MIT’s reach in research and education extends far beyond Cambridge — so global engagement was a natural topic for a Thursday symposium keyed to the inauguration of President L. Rafael Reif.
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Can you think of an MIT staff member who works hard to include everyone and takes advantage of their colleagues' various skills and perspectives? Then chances are you know someone you could nominate...
The António Champalimaud Foundation has announced that James G. Fujimoto, the Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering, and...
Noam Margalit, Sloan Fellow ’13, is a driven man. While still in college, where he studied engineering, he co-founded a successful bar in his native Tel Aviv, which eventually expanded to several...
For the first time, MIT has been ranked as the world’s top university in the QS World University Rankings. The No. 1 ranking moves the Institute up two spots from its third-place ranking last year;...
The MIT community is invited to participate in and contribute to the Inauguration 2012 activities taking place from September 19-22....
Ekaterina (Katia) Paramonova ’13 acknowledges starting Course 22 with some distinct advantages: both her father and grandfather work in the nuclear industry, and her Russian parents insisted on...
On Aug. 6, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech), and MIT kicked off a four-week intensive workshop called the...
In some isolated clinics in parts of Africa, the electricity needed to power lights and medical devices is generated by expensive imported diesel fuel; the water supply can be so cold in winter that...
Could raising chickens lead to a healthier human population in Mbarara, Uganda? That's the question Mary Anito and her teammate tried to answer during the...
On June 15, MIT President Susan Hockfield and Alain Fuchs, president of France’s National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), marked the beginning...
The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech) has accepted 21 outstanding Russian students from 14 different universities into...