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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
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
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…
“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
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
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
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,…
Save the Date for CPW 2024
The Admissions Office is pleased to announce that Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) will be held April 11 through April 14. The community website, which has more about CPW 2024, will launch in early January.
Ethics and Sustainability Student Showcase
2023 Ethics and Sustainability Student Showcase, featuring dozens of student projects from the Experiential Ethics and Experiential Sustainability classes. The students’ enthusiasm for their topics was obvious in the posters,…
A Successful FLI Pre-Orientation Program
FLIPOP, the First Generation and/or Low-income (FLI) first-year pre-orientation program aims to ease the transition into MIT for incoming first-year FLI undergraduate students.