In Tel Aviv, a Better World gathering highlights the MIT student experience
The city of Tel Aviv was the fifth of eight stops on the Better World tour, celebrating MIT’s historic Campaign for a Better World. On January 22, more than 175 guests and current students in Israel...
View ArticleMIT researchers launch technology evaluations for global development in Mali,...
The Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) at MIT has announced its 2017 product evaluations.Over the next year, the interdisciplinary program will bring together faculty, staff, and...
View ArticleMexico City “Better World” event showcases the MIT community in Latin America
The MIT Better World tour celebrated with more than 275 guests in Mexico City’s Four Seasons Hotel on March 23. The evening featured MIT alumni who have garnered international acclaim for their work,...
View ArticleVisiting UAE professors describe “life-changing” experiences at MIT
They came to MIT on different schedules, from different academic backgrounds, with different research and educational goals. But the four junior faculty members from a growing technology university in...
View ArticleRahm Emanuel: The city is where the action is
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel laid out a case for bold action at the city level to make progress on education, inequality, climate change, and technology, in a wide-ranging talk at MIT on Friday...
View ArticleMIT Federal Credit Union bestows annual scholarships, People Helping People...
Each year, the MIT Federal Credit Union (FCU) presents the People Helping People Award to an FCU member who exemplifies compassion, commitment to helping others, and a sense of social justice within...
View Article3 Questions: How urbanization and revolutionary innovation are shaping global...
Around the world, more and more people are moving to cities. The increase in urbanization is paralleled by revolutionary advances in digital technology, innovation in the built environment, and new...
View ArticleJ-WAFS awards $1.4 million in third round of seed grant funding
The Abdul Latif Jameel World Water and Food Security Lab (J-WAFS) at MIT has announced its third round of seed grant funding to the MIT community. J‑WAFS, launched in 2014, is MIT’s Institute-wide...
View ArticleNew funding enables work on Internet policy and cybersecurity for key...
Today, MIT’s cross-disciplinary Internet Policy Research Initiative (IPRI) announced that it has awarded $1.5 million to a select group of principal investigators for early-stage Internet policy and...
View Article3Q: Siqi Zheng on air quality and urban development in China
MIT Professor Siqi Zheng is the Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship within MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Center for Real Estate. She...
View ArticleLIDS Smart Urban Infrastructures Workshop highlights emerging research
Data can reveal valuable insights about the ways humans interact with their urban surroundings, helping to determine the types of services and systems they need and how those services and systems...
View Article3 Questions: Mariana Arcaya on the drivers of health inequality
As economic inequality has risen in the U.S. over the last few decades, so has health inequality. What’s driving the growth of these disparities in public health, now documented in numerous studies? In...
View ArticleDesign innovations for improved life in cities
What do portable desks for children in developing countries, 3-D models of underutilized Boston real estate, and devices that track opioids in city sewers have in common? They are among the products or...
View ArticleAcademics without borders
In January, MIT President L. Rafael Reif sent an update to the MIT community that described the international makeup of the campus. “Like the United States, and thanks to the United States, MIT gains...
View ArticleAdvanced Functional Fabrics of America opens headquarters steps from MIT campus
These are not your grandmother’s fibers and textiles. These are tomorrow’s functional fabrics — designed and prototyped in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and manufactured across a network of U.S. partners....
View ArticleA simple solution for terrible traffic
Cities plagued with terrible traffic problems may be overlooking a simple, low-cost solution: High-occupancy vehicle (HOV) policies that encourage carpooling can reduce traffic drastically, according...
View ArticleEvaluating approaches to agricultural development
As the old saying goes, teaching someone to fish is far more helpful than just giving them a fish. Now, research from WorldFish and MIT takes that adage a step further: Better yet, the study found, is...
View Article3 Questions: Justin Steil on the Trump administration travel ban
On June 26, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments relating to President Donald Trump's recent executive order on travel, which limits individuals from six majority-Musliim countries and...
View ArticleJessica Myers: Liberté, Égalité, Sécurité
As an undergraduate at Princeton University, Jessica Myers MCP ’17 threw herself into writing a thesis on urban food markets in New Orleans. After many months of work, however, she was disappointed to...
View ArticleSix from MIT awarded 2017 Fulbright grants
Three MIT undergraduate students and three recent alumni have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants to conduct independent research projects overseas during the coming academic year. In...
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