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The new pool of funding supports Independent Activities Period subjects abroad led by SHASS faculty or teaching staff.

This post was originally published on this site. In 2024, an association of female senior citizens in Switzerland won a case at the European Court of Human Rights. Their country, the women contended, needed to do more to protect them from climate change, since heat waves can make the elderly particularly vulnerable. The court ruled […]

This post was originally published on this site. Just as the United States has prospered through its ability to draw talent from every corner of the globe, so too has MIT thrived as a magnet for the world’s most keen and curious minds — many of whom remain here to invent solutions, create companies, and […]

This post was originally published on this site. Whitney Zhang ’21 believes in the importance of valuing workers regardless of where they fit into an organizational chart. Zhang is a PhD student in MIT’s Department of Economics studying labor economics. She explores how the technological and managerial decisions companies make affect workers across the pay spectrum.  […]

This post was originally published on this site. MIT has placed second in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings of the nation’s best universities, announced today.  As in past years, MIT’s engineering program continues to lead the list of undergraduate engineering programs at a doctoral institution. The Institute also placed first in five out of 10 […]