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
On Tuesday, April 10, MIT welcomed Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to the MIT Media Lab. Upon her arrival, MIT President Susan Hockfield and MIT Provost L. Rafael Reif greeted Rousseff. She...
MIT’s School of Engineering and the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA) in São Paulo, Brazil, have agreed to explore a potential future collaboration.
School of Engineering Dean...
School of Engineering Dean...
As part of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, dozens of student-led teams are innovating solutions to critical quality-of-life barriers...
“At MIT, I have had the opportunity to study a broad range of topics in chemistry and to conduct cutting-edge research,” senior Tara Mokhtari says. “But what I love most is sharing the chemistry I...
Speaking to students in Simmons Hall on Wednesday evening, Provost L. Rafael Reif and Chancellor Eric Grimson explained how MITx — the Institute’s new initiative for online learning — could...
The celebrated Iranian rights activist Shirin Ebadi renewed her message of defiance and optimism in a talk at MIT on Wednesday afternoon, vowing that Iran’s women will continue to “fight for full and...
As part of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, dozens of student-led teams are innovating solutions to critical quality-of-life barriers...
It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers,...
For anyone who has ever taken a commercial flight, it’s an all-too-familiar scene: Hundreds of passengers sit around waiting for boarding to begin, then rush to be at the front of the line as soon as...
The MIT-Germany Seed Fund, made possible by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, awarded its first faculty grants in December 2011. These funds will be used to cover international...
As part of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, dozens of student-led teams are innovating solutions to critical quality-of-life barriers...
The MIT-Japan Program at the Center for International Studies (CIS) has received a grant for the MIT Japan 3.11 Initiative from The Japan Foundation's Center for Global Partnership.
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As part of the MIT IDEAS Global Challenge, dozens of student-led teams are innovating solutions to critical quality-of-life barriers...
The Princeton Review has ranked MIT second for undergraduate game design programs and third for graduate programs on its list of "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012," which honors...
The Princeton Review has ranked MIT second for undergraduate game design programs and third for graduate programs on its list of "Top Schools to Study Video Game Design for 2012," which honors...
Joseph Rafidi (Los Angeles, Calif.), a sophomore epeeist on the MIT men’s fencing team, will likely spend at least part of the next few weeks brushing up on his Russian.
The electrical...
The electrical...
In the high stakes world of international relations, particularly when nuclear powers are involved, there is little room for error. At the same time, sorting out causes and effects from the mix of...
Eric Lander, director of the Broad Institute and a professor of biology at MIT, is among the recipients of the 2012 Dan David Prize — a prestigious Israeli award for achievements having an...
MITx, a new online-learning initiative launched by MIT and announced in December, begins in earnest today with its first course: 6.002x (...
At a remote village called Bisate in the desperately poor nation of Rwanda, a clinic faced chronic shortages of water during the nation’s twice-yearly dry seasons. Sometimes there was simply not...
Nearly a year after the Fukushima nuclear powerplant disaster, Akira Omoto, a member of the five-person Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) of Japan, spoke Thursday at MIT about the impact of the accident...
In December, two School of Architecture + Planning alumni conducted a workshop in Istanbul that brought together 24 young architects, planners and engineers — half from Armenia, half from Turkey —...
This January, MIT graduate students Paul Artiuch and Samuel Kornstein traveled throughout India to identify challenges and inefficiencies in India's agricultural system that result in millions of...
Nitrogen fixation in the polar ocean. Nanoengineered surfaces and coatings for enhanced water recovery. The impact of foreign chains on China's retail industry. These are just three of the 71 faculty...
Controlling and manipulating nature at the quantum level is one of the greatest challenges in both theoretical and experimental physics. The most prominent application is quantum information...