News

By: Amy MacMillan Bankson
This past summer, the MIT Integrated Learning Initiative (MITili) awarded a $27,260 education research grant to Nwanacho Nwana, SB ’20, and Lori Breslow, senior lecturer in managerial communication at MIT Sloan. Read more
By: Adelaide Zollinger | MIT Morningside Academy for Design
MakerLodge is an extracurricular training program open to all MIT first-year undergraduate students that teaches making skills. It’s a great way to discover MIT shops and makerspaces, use manual and digital tools, socialize, and appreciate the power of making for experiential learning.
By: Anne Trafton | MIT News
Many studies have found that practicing mindfulness — defined as cultivating an open-minded attention to the present moment — has benefits for children. Children who receive mindfulness training at school have demonstrated improvements in attention and behavior, as well as greater mental health.
By: Zach Winn | MIT News
The Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow (MEET) program uses an MIT-inspired curriculum and MISTI student instructors to help young Palestinians and Israelis find common ground. Read more
By: Danna Lorch | MIT Center for International Studies
The program brings talented Nigerian academics at the postdoctoral level to MIT for a semester-long immersive experience, then sends them back out into the field to teach, research, and grow into influential leadership roles in their higher education system.
By: Katherine Ouellette | Stefanie Koperniak | MIT Open Learning
The DLL, a joint program between MIT Open Learning and MIT’s academic departments, is composed of academic staff and postdocs who collaborate on digital learning innovations. Read more
By: Katherine Ouellette | MIT Open Learning
Inclusive Teaching is a hybrid training workshop series offered to MIT postdocs, graduate students, and junior faculty the summer before embarking on their first teaching experiences.
By: Rohan Mehta
Professors have taken to social media to share a spectrum of AI policies. And students—whether or not they’ll admit it—have cautiously experimented with the idea of allowing it to play a part in their academic work.  Read more
By: MIT News
Twenty-seven proposals have been selected to receive exploratory funding.
By: Sarah Foote | Division of Student Life
For the past 10 years, MIT students who are members of dynaMIT have taught middle schoolers from under-resourced Boston-area schools vital STEM principles through a variety of games, experiments, and activities.