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Reframing first-generation academic experience

Reframing the first-generation academic experience

The First Gen Summit has became a rallying point for the MIT’s nascent first-generation graduate students, bringing them together as organizers, presenters, and participants.

MIT releases strategic action plan for belonging, achievement, and composition

Eddie Glaude Jr.: "We must run toward our fears"

Eddie Glaude Jr.: "We must run toward our fears" | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

At MIT’s annual celebration of the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr, Professor Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. of Princeton University invoked King’s memory in an impassioned appeal for confronting the realities of the United States’ history and the country’s racist beliefs and actions, in order to achieve a more just and equitable nation.

2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans

In fall 2020, MIT’s School of Engineering and Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited launched the MIT-Takeda Program, a collaboration to support members of the MIT community working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human health. Hou

2021-22 Takeda Fellows: Leaning on AI to advance medicine for humans

The 2021-22 Takeda Fellows are working on research involving electronic health record algorithms, remote sensing data as it relates to environmental health risk, and neural networks for the development of antibiotics.

Helping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community

Designing in a pandemic to fight a pandemic

Credits: Image: Sean Clarke Next image Last fall, seniors in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering (BE) took on the most relevant of all possible design challenges — the Covid-19 pandemic. The capstone design class in the Course 20 major, class 20.380 (Biological Engineering Design) has a different theme every semester, and in September there was little doubt about this fall’s topic — Addressing the Pandemic with BE. “We weren't sure how students would respond. Would they be exhausted by Covid? Instead, students leapt at the chance to apply their skills to such an immediate problem,” says Professor Angela Koehler, a member of the teaching team.