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Upcoming Events

Tapia Conference

Tapia Conference

September 10-12, 2025

Location:

Gaylord Texan Resort

Dallas, Texas

The National GEM Consortium

The National GEM Consortium

September 11-13, 2025

Location:

San Diego, CA

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Recent Blog Posts

Ten Stitches Up, Nine Down

June 18, 2025

We all know the trope: pick up a hobby, splurge on supplies, try it once, and never touch it again. I took it a step further—starting a scarf in 2019 and heroically refusing to finish it for years. What began as a quick winter project quietly turned into a long-running companion to my time at […]

Time is ticking for the creative art industry? 

Time is ticking for the creative art industry? 

June 5, 2025

What would you do at 7:30 am on a 30 degree, rainy Saturday morning? If it also happened to be Lunar New Year’s Eve?  While my roommate was still waking up and getting ready to wish his family a happy New Year, I was carrying a box of T-shirts and running to the MIT Innovation […]

The Dome of Dreams

The Dome of Dreams

May 21, 2025

The majestic MIT Dome is a sight to behold! It is a universal dream – whether you go to MIT or not, to get ‘that’ photo at Killian with the Dome adorning the backdrop. Some grandiose few have performed flash mob proposals in front of the Dome, but for the simple rest when this backdrop […]

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Recent News

QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2025-26

June 18, 2025

MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 14th year in a row MIT has received this distinction. The full 2026 edition of the rankings — published by Quacquarelli Symonds, an organization specializing in education and study abroad — can be […]

Combining technology, education, and human connection to improve online learning

June 17, 2025

MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) Fellow Caitlin Morris is an architect, artist, researcher, and educator who has studied psychology and used online learning tools to teach herself coding and other skills. She’s a soft-spoken observer, with a keen interest in how people use space and respond to their environments. Combining her observational skills with active community engagement, […]

Students and staff work together for MIT’s first “No Mow May”

June 16, 2025

In recent years, some grass lawns around the country have grown a little taller in springtime thanks to No Mow May, a movement originally launched by U.K. nonprofit Plantlife in 2019 designed to raise awareness about the ecological impacts of the traditional, resource-intensive, manicured grass lawn. No Mow May encourages people to skip spring mowing […]

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