MIT-Wits Program continues to thrive
Now in its seventh year, the MIT-Wits Program is one of MIT’s most active in Africa. Whether through MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI)-organized student opportunities and...
View ArticleBlueprint for fall 2020 at MIT
How are instructors planning for remote learning in the fall? Why do on-campus students have to be on a meal plan? What will happen if there is a Covid-19 breakout in a residence hall? These and many...
View Article3 Questions: John Leonard on the future of autonomous vehicles
As part of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future’s new series of research briefs, Professor John Leonard teamed with professor of aeronautics and astronautics and of history David Mindell and...
View ArticleKnight Science Journalism Program at MIT announces 2020-21 fellowship class
The Knight Science Journalism Program (KSJ) at MIT announced the selection of 18 distinguished American science journalists to receive its pioneering remote project fellowships during the 2020-21...
View ArticleMasks mandates have major impact, study finds
The research described in this article has been published as a working paper but has not yet been peer-reviewed by experts in the field.Masks reduce the spread of Covid-19. But just how much of an...
View Article“Junior republics,” a unique concept in the history of American childhood
Around 1900, the famed Baedeker’s travel guide began listing a new tourist sight in Freeville, New York: the “George Junior Republic,” a miniature United States run by kids.The invention of...
View ArticleThe promise of using WhatsApp for low-tech distance learning
WhatsApp is one of the most widely-used communication apps in South Africa. Though it’s often portrayed in the news as a way to spread disinformation, it shows surprising potential as a tool for online...
View ArticleThe Philippines, the US, and a century of military alliance
For a few nights in late 1991, a 74-year-old army veteran, newly arrived in Los Angeles and looking for family members, needed to sleep outside. Pastor Amarillento was a recently naturalized Filipino...
View Article3 Questions: Eric Klopfer on the meaning of masks
As The Washington Post has reported,“at the heart of the dismal U.S. coronavirus response” is a “fraught relationship with masks.” In this series of commentaries — inspired by ideas from associate...
View ArticleLouis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and women's and gender...
Louis Kampf, professor emeritus of literature and women’s and gender studies at MIT, died in hospice care on May 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, at the age of 91. The cause was cardiac arrest.The only...
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