MITdesignX and MISTI in Dubai

MIT has nurtured and celebrated its entrepreneurial culture for decades, with programs and courses supporting innovative…

Programming functional fabrics

Encouraged by her family, Lavender Tessmer explored various creative pursuits from a young age, particularly textiles,…

Think globally, rebuild locally

Building construction accounts for a huge chunk of greenhouse gas emissions: About 36 percent of carbon…

Q&A: A blueprint for sustainable innovation

Atacama Biomaterials is a startup combining architecture, machine learning, and chemical engineering to create eco-friendly materials…

Building technology that empowers city residents

Kwesi Afrifa came to MIT from his hometown of Accra, Ghana, in 2020 to pursue an…

MIT in the media: 2023 in review

It was an eventful trip around the sun for MIT this year, from President Sally Kornbluth’s…

MIT Generative AI Week fosters dialogue across disciplines

In late November, faculty, staff, and students from across MIT participated in MIT Generative AI Week.…

Two from MIT named 2024 Marshall Scholars

Anushree Chaudhuri and Rupert Li have won Marshall Scholarships, a prestigious British government-funded fellowship that offers…

Building on an enduring bond

Robert Robinson Taylor’s impressive legacy straddles two institutions. There’s MIT, where he studied architecture and became…

Making life friendlier with personal robots

“As a child, I wished for a robot that would explain others’ emotions to me” says…