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At the 2023 MIT class 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes) finals, six teams presented products to help end users with a diversity of "wild" experiences.

In 24.213 (Philosophy of Film), MIT students explore cinema from both the producer and audience perspectives, touching on issues of art and ethics in movies. Associate professor of philosophy Justin Khoo developed a new version of the course, taught for the first time this spring.

A new three-day custom program entitled “Artificial Intelligence for National Security Leaders” (AI4NSL) educates leaders on the basics of AI, machine learning, and data science, and how these topics intersect with national security.

Poet and scholar Joshua Bennett taught a new literature course at MIT 21L.004 (Reading Poetry: Social Poetics), which was designed with an emphasis on Black U.S. poets — part of a group historically barred from literacy and many forms of ownership and belonging.

Through coursework, intercollegiate collaboration, and a site visit, MIT students fuse engineering and anthropology to propose innovative energy solutions in Mongolia, where over 93 percent of the nation’s energy comes from coal-fired power plants.

Daniel Braunstein, an instructor in MIT’s Pappalardo Lab, uses creative approaches in hands-on classes that transform undergrads into mechanical engineers.

Per Urlaub, head of MIT's Global Languages program, answers three questions about the value of language studies and his vision for the future of the program.

MIT class 6.2540 (Nanotechnology: From Atoms to Systems) invites undergrads to spend over nine weeks inside MIT.nano’s labs, learning basic skills that allow them to apply their knowledge of the nanoscale to design and build spectrometers, make quantum dots, fabricate light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and tunneling chemical sensors, and test and package their sensors into active displays and systems.

Cristina Parreno Alonso from the MIT Department of Architecture recently devised a new class, The Deep Time Project, which launched in Fall 2022. The class culminated in a series of “material essays” that seek to bring deep time into contemporary consciousness.

A new Independent Activities Period Ukrainian course from MIT Global Languages opens doors to language learning as well as cultural education and war relief.