Researchers have identified education level and amount of time spent on intellectually stimulating activities as factors that help prevent dementia.
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Now in its 19th year, the WTP brings high school students with little STEM experience to Cambridge for an immersive, four-week exploration of all things engineering.
In a recent panel discussion, experts describe opportunities for equality and equity. For example, the pandemic has set back recent progress, and it looks like Brazil may be returning to levels of education from 10 years ago.
Throughout the pandemic, numerous faculty members have stepped up to support and guide their graduate students in unique and impactful ways, through efforts such as championing diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
“K-12 students across the country will have the opportunity to learn about artificial intelligence, MIT-style — that is, through hands-on activities that will demonstrate the part AI plays in their daily lives.”
Social robotics and artificial intelligence pioneer will oversee business units and help to guide innovative learning initiatives.
“We were all isolated, but we found this platform where everybody could come from multicultural backgrounds,” says learner Blein Alem. “It’s been more than a community, it’s been like family.”
Angrist has conducted his own empirical research that delves deeply into issues of employment and education, bringing light — and hard data — to matters such as the effects of education and military service on lifetime earnings, and the impact of class size and many kinds of policy experiments on educational outcomes.
“Effective graduate advising and mentoring are essential components of our mission as educators at MIT. It is a clear opportunity for a change in culture and a shift in power dynamics.” – MIT’s Paula Hammond
Shaping the Work of the Future, an MITx course that has influenced not only a global audience of tens of thousands of enrollees, but also changed MIT’s professor Kochan’s approach to teaching residential courses on campus.