John Fernández: Growing grassroots for sustainability on campus and abroad
Environmental Solutions Initiative’s new director discusses sustainable development, student engagement, and making Baker House his home.
Professor Emeritus Seymour Papert, pioneer of constructionist learning, dies at 88
World-renowned mathematician, learning theorist, and educational-technology visionary was a founding faculty member of the MIT Media Lab.
Judith Tendler, professor emerita in urban studies and planning, dies at 77
With an optimistic outlook, Tendler combined development economics and organizational theory to advise governments.
Assessing health impacts of policies and plans
New class offers urban planners tools to explore the intersection of city planning and public health.
2016 MIT Media Lab Director’s Fellows announced
Program blurs the lines between academia and the world.
“Beijing Studio” celebrates 30 years
MIT–Tsinghua collaboration grapples with urban issues in China.
DUSP, CRE, and STL Lab award $1.1 million in second round of faculty research funding
Nine grants awarded to MIT faculty and researchers.
Seeking simple solutions with huge impacts
PhD student Cauam Cardoso assesses technologies that aim to help the world’s poor.
Art and science merge in a disaster readiness haven
Innovative off-grid PREPHubs structures house basic services needed in the aftermath of a disaster.
J. Meejin Yoon, Alex Anmahian among winners of Northern Avenue Bridge Competition
Winning proposals would create civic spaces while restoring infrastructure.
Cities of tomorrow
New book by Senseable City Lab researchers presents vision of data-driven urban design.
Seeing RNA at the nanoscale
Microscopy technique allows scientists to pinpoint RNA molecules in the brain.
Music of the (data) spheres
A new MIT project taps into particle collisions to generate music and forge harmony between science and art.