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Designing cleaner vehicles

Designing cleaner vehicles

Graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is developing sustainable solutions in vehicle design.

Turning engineers into well-rounded communicators

Turning engineers into well-rounded communicators

The MIT School of Engineering’s Communication Lab provides peer coaching and other services to students and postdocs seeking to improve their communication skills.

Printing a new approach to fusion power plant materials

Printing a new approach to fusion power plant materials

MIT PhD student Alexander O’Brien is working to deliver the next generation of fusion devices through research on additive manufacturing of metal-ceramic composites.

MakerLodge: A launchpad for hands-on learning

MakerLodge: A launchpad for hands-on learning

MIT’s program for first-year students helps develop hands-on maker skills, with tools, socializing, and safety training.

Empowering students to bring change in the Middle East

Empowering students to bring change in the Middle East

The Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET) program uses an MIT-inspired curriculum and MISTI student instructors to help young Palestinians and Israelis find common ground.

A reciprocal relationship with the land in Hawaiʻi

A reciprocal relationship with the land in Hawaiʻi

Through community-based research with organizations that work to “hoʻomomona hou i ka ʻāina,” or “restore that which feeds back to abundance,” PhD student Aja Grande has embarked on a healing journey of her own.

“A whole world of potential learners and potential knowledge to gain”

“A whole world of potential learners and potential knowledge to gain”

MIT Digital Learning Lab advances quality digital learning on campus and globally.

Finding solidarity in the teachers’ lounge

Finding solidarity in the teachers’ lounge

MIT PhD candidate Elizabeth Parker-Magyar finds close workplace networks among educators drive their activism even outside of democracies.

3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering

3 Questions: A new PhD program from the Center for Computational Science and Engineering

Co-directors Youssef Marzouk and Nicolas Hadjiconstantinou describe how the standalone degree aims to train students in cross-cutting aspects of computational science and engineering.

OVC Promotions and New Employees

OVC Promotions and New Employees

Promotions, Feb. 1, 2023-Oct. 31, 2023 Clare Head, Admissions Office Hannah Ledford, Admissions Office Erin Murray, Admissions Office Olivia Whalen, Admissions Office Linda Rabieh, Concourse Elizabeth Taylor, Concourse Heewon Lee, D-Lab Asif Obaidee, D-Lab James Bales, Edgerton Center Patricia Christie, Experimental Study Group Paola Rebusco, Experimental Study Group Maria Cervantes Gonzalez, Office of Graduate Education […]