National Student Parent Month: Magreth Kakoko Celebrating MIT’s graduate student parents Happy National Student Parent Month! This month, the Office of Graduate Education is featuring one graduate student parent per week, highlighting their academic work and parenting journey at MIT. Stay tuned for more student parent features! Family: son Villu (9 months) and husband Siegfried.Degree […]
“The minute you think, ‘I’ve done everything I can possibly do for Lincoln Lab,’ next thing you know, you’re belly crawling through a mock rubble pile,” says Niki Fandel. Through hundreds of photo shoots each year, the MIT Lincoln Laboratory photographer captures technical innovations — from functional fibers to advanced radar systems — and the […]
Following World War II, the MIT faculty convened a committee to assess the Institute’s principles of education and their relevance “in a new era emerging from social upheaval and the disasters of war.” One of the outcomes of this pivotal report was the establishment of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS). MIT News […]
National Student Parent Month: Kathryn Urban Celebrating MIT’s graduate student parents Happy National Student Parent Month! This month, the Office of Graduate Education is featuring one graduate student parent per week, highlighting their academic work and parenting journey at MIT. Stay tuned for more student parent features! Kathryn UrbanFamily: 9-month-old daughter, Ruth, and husband, David.Degree […]
It started with a vision: Move MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning (SA+P) into the Metropolitan Storage Warehouse, an unoccupied, fortress-like brick building on MIT’s campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After all, SA+P needed more space and new facilities. And here, visible from its old offices across the street, was an unused building the size of […]
The MIT School of Architecture and Planning recognized 11 faculty members with promotions for their significant contributions to the school, effective July 1, 2026. Four faculty promotions are in the Department of Architecture, three are in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), and four are in the program in Media Arts and Sciences. […]
This interview is part of a series of short interviews from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS). Each spotlight features a student answering their choice of questions about themselves and life at MIT. Isabel Duran, a junior majoring in Course 6-5 (Electrical Engineering With Computing), keeps a packed schedule: You may spot […]
Vice Provost for International Activities Duane Boning oversees MIT’s international policies and engagements. Here he discusses why international engagement remains vital to MIT’s mission of advancing knowledge, educating students, and innovating to serve the nation and the world. Q: Why does MIT consider international engagement important to its institutional mission? A: International engagement is an integral part of […]
One graduate student family treasures the community they found alongside other MIT student parents Nicholas MaurerFamily: Children Elaine (5) and Zachary (3), and wife Andrea.Degree program: PhD in Data, Systems, and SocietyYears at MIT: 2 For Nicholas Maurer, an international PhD student from Australia pursuing his degree in Data, Systems, and Society, MIT was a […]
A former MIT class project is becoming an $850 million effort to manufacture a new kind of aircraft in Ohio. Electra began as an idea for a hybrid plane that could take off from shorter runways than traditional airplanes but have more range and speed than all-electric aircraft. Now, like other great MIT projects, it’s […]
