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Saudi Arabia faces increased heat, humidity, precipitation extremes by mid-century
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is at a crossroads. Recent long-term studies of the area indicate that rising temperatures and evaporation rates will likely further deplete scarce water resources...
Eleven from MIT awarded 2020 Fulbright Fellowships
This story was updated on 12/17/2020 to reflect Christian Cardozo’s decision to accept a Fulbright fellowship. Eleven MIT students and recent alumni are recipients of awards from the Fulbright U.S....
Action learning in the virtual world
This year marked the third time that MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node hosted a fintech entrepreneurship program designed for students from MIT and from Hong Kong, but this summer marked...
MIT deepens connections to the Middle East
Since MIT’s first major collaboration in the Middle East in the 1970s, the Institute has deepened its connection and commitment to the region, expanding to create the MIT-Arab World Program...
Solve Challenge Finals go virtual for 2020
Solve Challenge Finals 2019 Credits: Photo courtesy of MIT Solve. We have all faced new and greater challenges this year. The Covid-19 pandemic has spared no country, family, or individual,...
MIT community unites for Beirut explosion relief efforts
On Aug. 4, the third-largest non-nuclear blast the world has ever seen shook the city of Beirut, Lebanon. The city’s core was wiped out. Beirut was in shambles, leaving 300,000...
Superconductor technology for smaller, sooner fusion
Scientists have long sought to harness fusion as an inexhaustible and carbon-free energy source. Within the past few years, groundbreaking high-temperature superconductor technology (HTS) sparked a new vision for achieving...
Why soldiers fight
Matthew Cancian concluded his service in the U.S. Marine Corps in 2013, but in some ways he never left his Afghanistan battlefield experience behind. A rising fifth-year doctoral candidate in...
Examining the French stage during the Enlightenment and French Revolution
The MIT Press recently published “Databases, Revenues and Repertory: The French Stage Online, 1680-1793,” an innovative collection of original essays that explore an important initiative in the digital humanities, the...