Subra Suresh to head National Science Foundation
MIT’s dean of engineering has been confirmed by the United States Senate to direct the largest supporter of non-medical basic-science research in the country.
OpenCourseWare: A Decade of Global Benefit
Shigeru Miyagawa celebrates OCW’s accomplishments and shares one of the program’s many success stories.
National Research Council releases assessment of U.S. doctoral programs
Rankings reaffirm MIT’s leadership role in science and technology.
The energy challenge calls on humanities and social-science research
Courses on energy include economics, political science, history, literature and more.
MIT, visiting Singapore students transform games research with two more new releases
Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab games delve into color theory and recursive learning.
MIT OpenCourseWare teams up with OpenStudy to help OCW users connect
Thousands of OCW visitors interact on pilot OCW OpenStudy groups; program expanded.
MIT places 4th in comprehensive study of academics and athletics
NCSA Athletic Recruiting's Collegiate Power Rankings assess the academic, athletics standards of all NCAA athletic programs.
Cynthia Barnhart is appointed acting dean of the School of Engineering
Subra Suresh, nominated to head NSF, is on sabbatical leave for the fall semester.
Scott, Yoon tapped to direct academic programs
Will evaluate and develop master's, bachelor's curricula in the Department of Architecture
MIT welcomes 8 MLK visiting professors and scholars
Scholars’ diverse backgrounds enhance MIT community, research and teaching.
MIT ranked third among world’s top 200 universities
Times Higher Education annual survey uses new methodology that focuses on research and teaching.
Hockfield says research universities must help cultivate science, math teachers
At a Brookings Institution event, the MIT president warns U.S. STEM-education gap to have ‘disastrous consequences’ on nation.