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Duane Boning named vice provost for international activities
With extensive international outreach experience as a faculty member and program leader, Boning brings a spirit of curiosity and collaboration to his new role.
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Event: Asian American Visibility & Intersectionality at MIT
This is part one of an ongoing conversation about Asian American visibility & intersectionality at MIT. Stay tuned for part 2! Join ICEO and partners for a panel discussion with Professors Emma Teng, Lily L. Tsai, and Craig Wilder on the history and impact of Asian American marginalization as it applies to higher education, Institutions, […]
Global Languages announces new HASS concentration in Korean
Students at MIT will now be able to take their Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences concentration in Korean. The new concentration extends the options for Asian languages at MIT, which also include Japanese and Mandarin. In response to long-term student demand and the growing importance of international activities in Korea, MIT Global Languages identified Korean […]
Ice melts on US-Sudan relations, providing new opportunities
It was over 27 years in the making. When the White House removed Sudan from the “State Sponsors of Terrorism” list in December 2020, ZAHARA for Education was ready. ZAHARA was founded by MIT technology and policy master’s student Ilham Ali and Harvard University alumna Sahar Omer to expand educational opportunities between Sudan and the […]
To understand race in Africa today, look to the past, panelists say
Last year protests erupted in the U.S. and parts of South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa, with the central message — Black Lives Matter. Ignited by the demonstrations for racial justice and police reform in the U.S., the protests around the world erupted in solidarity with the American cause, but took on the nuances of […]
Mobilizing the masses, one person at a time
Collective action can lead to fundamental change in societies, giving a voice to marginalized citizens and creating opportunities for greater political and economic equity. But for it to work, numbers matter. So Gabriel Nahmias is asking, “How do we get more people to engage in politics, and then how do we get those who are […]
MIT unveils a new action plan to tackle the climate crisis
MIT has released an ambitious new plan for action to address the world’s accelerating climate crisis. The plan, titled “Fast Forward: MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade,” includes a broad array of new initiatives and significant expansions of existing programs, to address the needs for new technologies, new policies, and new kinds of outreach […]
Tackling air pollution in India and the developing world
“I grew up with asthma as a kid, so bad air quality holds a visceral significance for me,” says Sidhant (Sid) Pai ’14, who spent much of his childhood in Pune, India. Located about 90 miles southwest of Mumbai, the city’s population has mushroomed over the past few decades, creating significant waste management concerns and […]
Letter from President Reif: India, Covid, and our global community
The following letter was sent to the MIT community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, Hopeful signs of reopening here in Massachusetts stand in cruel contrast to the immense new pandemic suffering unfolding in India, and increasingly across South Asia. Because MIT is intensely global, our community has […]
SMART breakthrough uses artificial neural networks to enhance travel behavior research
Researchers at the Future Urban Mobility (FM) interdisciplinary research group at Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have created a synthetic framework known as theory-based residual neural network (TB-ResNet), which combines discrete choice models (DCMs) and deep neural networks (DNNs), also known as deep learning, to improve individual decision-making […]
Fellowship Opportunity: Legatum Foundry Fellowship
The Foundry Fellowship is an exciting new leadership development program for Africa-based founders who have scaled innovation-led companies. The Fellowship will bring together African leaders who have demonstrated a commitment to bringing about change through entrepreneurship and are ready to enter the next phase of their entrepreneurial journey. We are seeking 15 established entrepreneurs from Africa who have founded […]