Education, teaching, academics

Education, empowerment and enlightenment through guided disassembly of your broken stuff

Peter Mui ’82 holds Fixit Clinic XVIII at the MIT Edgerton Center.

February 7, 2012

Medicine, microorganisms and Mexico

Biology major and Rhodes Scholar combines research and social service in the study of infectious diseases.

February 6, 2012

Dean A. Horn Award winner, Katy Olesnavage, and Stelios Ioannou from The Cyprus Institute on board data acquisition flight along the Cyprus coast.

Olesnavage wins 2012 Dean A. Horn Award

Undergraduate lays the groundwork for detection of submarine groundwater discharge in Cyprus.

February 3, 2012

Senior Research Scientist Richard Lanza, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering.

Nuclear security takes its place in NSE’s curriculum

January 31, 2012

Team members Jonathan Calderon and Jaaron Botello extracting purified phage particles after ultracentrifugation through a cesium chloride gradient.

The Art of Microbiology

IAP course tackles life-saving biology.

January 26, 2012

Richard Garriott speaks with a student at the 2011 Zero Robotics Challenge.

Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth

Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.

January 25, 2012

The 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index asked young adults ages 16-25 to identify the greatest innovator of all time.

Survey: Young Americans recognize the impact of innovation on U.S. economy and personal lives

Lemelson-MIT Invention Index reveals barriers and drivers to becoming U.S. inventors.

January 25, 2012

As Assistant Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT, Jessika Trancik focuses her research on the evolution of technologies and on decomposing performance trajectories of energy systems. She is particularly interested in understanding the dynamics and limits of costs and carbon intensities of energy technologies, in order to inform climate change mitigation efforts.

Seminar challenges with systems approach to climate change

Energy Systems and Climate Change Mitigation tackles the multidimensional challenges of climate change.

January 20, 2012

Alumni Class Funds seek proposals for teaching and education enhancement

January 19, 2012

Making her move

MIT senior overcame disabilities to study materials science, hoping to pave the way for other aspiring engineers.

January 9, 2012

Christopher R. Knittel, the William Barton Rogers Professor of Energy Economics, discusses policy options for addressing climate change during an MIT Earth Week colloquium in April 2011. Knittel holds the first endowed chair enabled by MITEI in order to recruit faculty in key disciplines for MIT energy research and education.

Knittel named first energy faculty chair at MIT

January 5, 2012

MIT launches online learning initiative

'MITx' will offer courses online and make online learning tools freely available.

December 19, 2011

What is MITx?

Answering common questions about the Institute’s new approach to online education.

December 19, 2011

Gene Chamberlain, longtime MIT staff member, dies at 91

Worked in MIT’s International Students Office for 32 years

December 15, 2011

Up, down and all around

One MIT senior traveled the planet’s most remote areas before landing at the Institute, where he now works on engineering better thermoelectric devices.