Using science for service
MIT senior Sofia Essayan-Perez, majoring in brain and cognitive sciences with a minor in applied international studies, has founded an educational nonprofit, conducted neuroscience research, and...
View ArticleAcknowledging extraordinary efforts
As members of the MIT community, we witness the talents of our colleagues and benefit from their contributions to life at MIT. The Excellence Awards committee encourages you to shine a light on these...
View ArticleStudy: Workplace diversity can help the bottom line
Gender diversity in the workplace helps firms be more productive, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT researcher — but it may also reduce satisfaction among employees.“Having a more diverse...
View ArticleSaid and Done for October 2014
Published monthly during the School terms, and once in the summer, Said and Done is a photo-rich digest from MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, integrating feature articles with...
View ArticleMIT community engages in dialogue on race
“At MIT, every semester is a hard semester,” MIT President Rafael Reif said at Wednesday afternoon’s Winterfest, in remarks to the MIT community. “For many members of our community, this semester, and...
View ArticleOut of the lab, into the world
Who says you have to choose one passion?For MIT senior Anisha Gururaj, each of her varied interests — such as Indian classical dance and music, engineering medical devices, and education — is one piece...
View ArticleA week at MIT
The first week of the new year brought smatterings of undergraduates returning to the MIT campus after the holidays — and 54 new faces were among them.These students traveled from across the country to...
View ArticleMLK Luncheon speakers call for more action
In an MIT tradition that goes back 41 years, hundreds of members of the Institute community gathered Wednesday for a luncheon to honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr., with talks reflecting on the...
View ArticleReport outlines path to greater campus inclusiveness
In 2013, MIT President L. Rafael Reif appointed Professor Edmund Bertschinger, who was then the head of the Department of Physics, to the newly created post of Institute Community and Equity Officer...
View ArticleLetter regarding the release of the Institute Community and Equity...
The following email was sent today to the MIT community by Provost Martin Schmidt.To the members of the MIT community, In April 2013, President Reif created the position of Institute Community and...
View ArticleStamp honors MIT’s first black graduate
The U.S. Postal Service honored one of MIT’s own today, issuing a stamp to honor architect and educator Robert Robinson Taylor. A member of the Class of 1892, Taylor was MIT’s first African-American...
View Article“Our judgments are shaped by biases”
When children ages 3 to 4, of various races, are shown similar dolls, one white and one black, and asked to pick out the one they think is “good,” “smart,” “pretty,” or that “you want to be friends...
View ArticleMIT SHASS launches the Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship
MIT’s School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) has welcomed three PhD students from other universities to campus this year through the SHASS Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship. Funded by...
View ArticleRecognizing the recognizers
Last month, MIT’s Rewards and Recognition Program received three Best Practice Standard Awards from Recognition Professionals International. Recognition Professionals International is the only...
View ArticleTemple Grandin: Look at what people can do, not what they can’t
When she was just two, doctors advised Temple Grandin’s mother that her child would probably need to be institutionalized for life due to her autism. But her mother would have none of that, and instead...
View ArticleAlfred P. Sloan Foundation awards grant to create a University Center of...
MIT has received a major grant — one of only three awarded nationally — from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to create a “University Center of Exemplary Mentoring” (UCEM) that will focus on the...
View Article3 Questions: Melissa Nobles on advancing racial and restorative justice
The U.S. Justice Department’s March report on racist policing in Ferguson, Missouri, was but the latest episode in a series highlighting the unsettled and unsettling issue of racial justice in the U.S....
View ArticleAn inspiring tale: Barbara Johnson wins MITFCU People Helping People Award
Barbara Johnson has a story that deserves to be heard. Winner of this year's People Helping People Award from the MIT Federal Credit Union, Johnson has worked with energy, creativity, and humor to...
View ArticleMission: "Space for all"
On a recent early spring evening, an unusual scene unfolded on the riverside steps of Walker Memorial: Members of MIT’s Black Women’s Alliance (BWA) and girls from the Cambridge-based Science Club for...
View ArticleMegan Smith: It’s mind, hand … and heart
“One of the very most important things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto” — “mens et manus,” or “mind and hand” — Megan Smith ’86, SM ’88, now the chief technology officer of...
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