Talking outside the tower
Walking into MIT can feel like entering a foreign country — one with a number for every building and an unwieldy acronym for every ...
A hands-on class responds to Covid
When Professor Stefanie Mueller needed to adapt her laboratory class to the Covid-19 pandemic, she was initially overwhelmed by the a...
Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working with collaborators in Uganda on a solution for the health hazards associated...
An Immersive Experience in Industry
Through the MechE Alliance’s Industry Immersion Program, graduate students get hands-on experience working on projects across a ran...
A New Lens Into the Past
For the fourth summer in a row, 16 rising sophomores visited civilization-spanning structures and monuments in Italy through the Depa...
Fabrics Are the Future
Yoel Fink stands under an unassuming LED ceiling lamp wearing what appears to be just an ordinary baseball cap. “Do you hear it?”...
Taking The Engine for a Test Drive
Innovators, investors, and entrepreneurs worldwide are waiting on news of the first companies chosen to be part of The Engine. Founde...
After MIT, New Officers Will Serve Their Country
A few hours after they received their MIT diplomas on the Institute’s famed Killian Court, 12 young women and men stood on the deck...
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We see making — and breaking — as a fundamental part of our educational ecosystem. At MIT, we have more than 130,000 square feet ...
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