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Enhancing the Student Veteran Experience
Since August of 2023, Student Veteran Success (SVS) has been working with the PGA New England HOPE foundation to put together a free golf clinic for veterans and military members…
For MIT students, there is much to learn from crafting a chair
In class 4.500 (Design Computation), Professor Larry Sass teaches the thoughtful and experimental process of design through the familiar idea of a chair, while exploring “foundational technologies.”
Students explore career opportunities in semiconductors
Global Semiconductor Alliance’s Women’s Leadership Initiative provides inspiration and guidance to MIT students.
In Praise of Exceptional Teaching: Two ESG Math Lecturers Retiring
Dr. Gabrielle Stoy and Dr. Jerry Orloff, the Experimental Study Group’s (ESG) long-time math lecturers, will retire at the end of this year. Over their two decades at ESG, Gabrielle…
Flipping Failure Featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education
TLL’s Flipping Failure Initiative Featured in the CHE! Beckie Supiano highlights Flipping Failure in the March 21 edition of her weekly Teaching newsletter from the Chronicle of Higher Education. In it, she quotes Ruthann Thomas, TLL Associate Director for…
MIT announces financial aid and tuition rates for the 2024–25 academic year
Financial aid increased, more than offsetting a 3.75 percent increase in tuition.
3 Questions: Progress on updating MIT’s undergraduate curriculum
Professors Adam Martin and Joel Volman explain the genesis, scope, and objectives of the recently launched Task Force on the MIT Undergraduate Academic Program.
2024 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
Professors Berggren, Campbell, Pollock, and Vaikuntanathan are honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
Envisioning a time when people age without fear of dementia
Moved by the human devastation and scientific conundrum of Alzheimer’s, William Li seeks to work on therapies for the disease.
“Imagine it, build it” at MIT
In class 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II) a hands-on approach provides the skills engineers use to create and solve problems.