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Eleven MIT affiliates — including undergraduates, graduate students, and alumni — have accepted Fulbright grants to conduct research or teach English in countries across the world. Five other students declined their awards to pursue other opportunities, and another student is still deciding. In total, 17 of MIT’s 30 Fulbright applicants won awards this year.  Funded […]

Six staff members were recognized for their contributions to the MIT community.

In a theater, the first thing the audience sees, and looks at the longest, is the stage. Even so, set design is something most of us know little about. Why does a set have its form and elements? How does it suit the performance?  Consider a set that designer and MIT Associate Professor Sara Brown […]

Nik Sandu points to a graph on the whiteboard in a seventh-grade science class. “According to the graph, what is the energy of the ball?” she asks, gently waving a hand to settle the room’s twitchy energy. “Voices are off.” A student raises his hand, noticing an askew Y-axis. “This one doesn’t go through zero. A […]

MIT economist Whitney Newey PhD ’83, the Ford Professor of Economics, emeritus, has received the 2026 Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics. The biennial Nemmers prizes from Northwestern University recognize top scholars for their lasting contributions to new knowledge, outstanding achievements, and the development of significant new modes of analysis. The university cited Newey — whose research has […]