Senior Jose Aceves-Salvador has been hooked on research since his first UROP. “I love the learning process, and in biology there’s a never-ending cycle of questions to explore, as well as opportunities to learn from failures and successes along the way,” he says.
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MIT graduate Emily Calandrelli (Emily’s Wonder Lab) is trying to be the STEM role model she didn’t have growing up in Morgantown, West Virginia, in the 1990s.
Celebrating 20 remarkable years, MIT OCW looks to the future, informed by learning needs underscored by the Covid-19 pandemic.
"What do libraries mean to me? In one word: everything. My mother was a librarian, first in the children’s section of a local public library and later a research librarian in the Danish Institute for Human Rights." #NationalLibraryWeek
Since its founding 20 years ago, MIT OpenCourseWare has granted free access to MIT course materials, laying the foundation for other open educational resource platforms.
Early education can only go so far. Disadvantaged students need tech role models who can lay out a path forward and show how interests can actually evolve into a career.
Professors Daron Acemoglu and Gigliola Staffilani have been honored as "Committed to Caring" for their dedicated advocacy and for connecting students with wider intellectual communities.
Elisabeth Reynolds, executive director of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, underscores the need to improve job quality, increase access to education and training, and invest in technologies that augment workers.
As the world reduces carbon pollution, research from the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative shows the need to protect schools in counties that rely on the fossil fuel industry.
For nearly three decades, the MacVicar Faculty Fellows Program has recognized exemplary and sustained contributions to undergraduate education at MIT. Congratulations to the 2021 winners!