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
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...
During his youth in Freiburg, Germany, family meals could occasion lively debate, recalls Jens Hainmueller, a recently tenured associate professor of political science. His parents, deeply influenced...
On Feb. 7, the ribbon was cut on a new facility at MIT for the SUTD-MIT International Design Centre (IDC). The IDC is a joint research project of MIT and the...
The MIT Sea Grant College Program has awarded the 2012 Dean A. Horn Award for Undergraduate Study in Marine Research to Katy Olesnavage, a graduating senior in the Department of Mechanical...
MIT President Susan Hockfield and about a dozen members of the MIT faculty traveled to Davos, Switzerland, last week to participate in the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF).
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Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward. More than 600 of these...
These days, senior Bethany Tomerlin is just like any other MIT student: She juggles a host of academic and research commitments, plays flute in the MIT Marching Band, and — when she finds a sliver of...
Ed Boyden of the MIT Media Lab and the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, has been named by the United Kingdom-based Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) as the first winner of...
The MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) has announced that nine student projects have been awarded funding through its MISTI 2.0 initiative. Students will use the grant money...