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Eleven from MIT accept 2026 Fulbright awards
Eleven MIT affiliates — including undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni — have accepted Fulbright grants to conduct research or teach English in countries across the world. Five other students declined their awards to pursue other opportunities, and another student is still deciding. In total, 17 of MIT’s 30 Fulbright applicants won awards this year. Funded by […]
MIT Open Learning reaches all the way to the South Pole
From the icy expanse of the South Pole, John Della Costa, a researcher on the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP) project, watches STS.042/8.225 (Einstein, Oppenheimer, Feynman: Physics in the 20th Century), a free online class from MIT Open Learning’s OpenCourseWare, as part of a weekly “Fysics Fridays” series he started with his team. […]
Jinhua Zhao named head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Jinhua Zhao MCP ’04, SM ’04, PhD ’09 has been appointed head of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), effective July 1. Zhao is the Class of 1941 Professor of Cities and Transportation at MIT. In making the announcement, dean of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning Hashim Sarkis noted that Zhao is a […]
Q&A with an MIT dining influencer
Last fall, MIT Campus Dining recruited a group of students to make short videos and share their experiences as student diners on Instagram. The MIT Dining Ambassadors program is an effort to get students talking about — and helping to improve — MIT’s food services and systems. One of the inaugural ambassadors, Michaela Brown, a biochemical […]
MIT SPURS looks to the future of urban technology and policy
The MIT SPURS/Humphrey Program – a small gem nestled in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) with scores of former fellows in leadership positions in countries around the world – will quietly turn 60 next year. And like most 59-year-olds, the program, or its directors, have stepped back to take a long look […]
Innovative projects explore ways to deal with extreme heat
When MIT mechanical engineering Professor Kripa Varanasi landed in New Delhi in the middle of the night in June 2024 to attend a conference, he found himself in 104-degree Fahrenheit heat. “This was June, and it was crazy. It was so hot for the whole meeting that I never left the hotel,” with daytime temperatures […]
Place-based pathways to a viable future
Aiming to transition away from fossil fuels and avert the worst consequences of climate change, world leaders aspire to achieve net zero global greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and cap global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius. But actions to meet such targets and minimize adverse impacts on lives, livelihoods, and infrastructure are not one-size-fits-all; they […]
Ten from MIT accept 2026 Fulbright awards
Ten MIT affiliates — including undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni — have accepted Fulbright grants to conduct research in countries across the world. Five other students declined their awards to pursue other opportunities, and another student is still deciding. In total, 16 of MIT’s 30 Fulbright applicants won awards this year. Funded by the U.S. […]
Some democracies are struggling to ensure safe drinking water
About 2 billion people — just under a quarter of the world’s population — lack regular access to clean drinking water. And roughly 800,000 people annually die from illnesses associated with unsanitary water. Drinking water access is a fundamental problem for human and economic development. The U.N., for instance, highlighted the issue in its Sustainable […]
A bet that has paid off 500 million times over
In 2001, at the dawn of the digital age, MIT made a bold decision: to open its curriculum to the world. Through MIT OpenCourseWare — now part of MIT Open Learning — the Institute began sharing materials from nearly all of its courses online for free. A quarter of a century later, that decision has […]