The Inspiring Story of Ahaan Rungta
“Some people think I’m gifted, but I don’t think so. OCW was a gift to me. I was lucky to be born at the time MIT was opening up education…
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Education is Key in MIT’s New Five-Year Plan for Action on Climate Change
Yesterday MIT introduced a sweeping new five-year plan for action on climate change. This plan embodies the fundamental agreement across our community that the problem of climate change, the subject of…
Continue readingMIT’s Mars Experts are Giddy about the Planet’s Water Discovery (Boston.com)
This week’s announcement by NASA confirming liquid water flowing on the surface of Mars is big news. Several MIT faculty who study Mars shared their thoughts with Boston.com’s Eric Levenson: “I’m excited…
Continue readingCourses by two of Technology Review’s latest “35 Innovators Under 35”
Last week, MIT Technology Review unveiled the 2015 edition of their annual 35 Innovators Under 35 series. This group is making their mark in key emerging technologies, working as inventors, entrepreneurs, visionaries, humanitarians, and…
Continue readingA New Look at Superfluidity (MIT News)
Working at temperatures approaching absolute zero, a team led by MIT Physics professor and Nobel laureate Wolfgang Ketterle has acheived the first magnetic trapping of an elusive “superfluid” phase of matter. MIT News…
Continue readingMIT in New Collaboration to Transform Teaching in the Digital Age
MIT does not have an education school, but it’s just announced a big new initiative with the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation on elementary and secondary teacher training. From MIT News: MIT,…
Continue readingOCW hits Hollywood
As collected in our OCW Stories pages, people use MIT OpenCourseWare materials in many different ways and for many different reasons. Some are motivated by a general curiosity, while others are pursuing a specific goal, such…
Continue readingMIT Geologists in the News
A couple of months ago, we posted a piece about OCW’s new Introduction to Geology course, taught by Professors Taylor Perron and Oliver Jagoutz, and featuring extensive commentary from the…
Continue readingMITEI Releases Report on the Future of Solar Energy (MIT News)
MITEI releases report on the future of solar energy Report highlights enormous potential and discusses pathways toward affordable solar energy. Melissa Abraham | MIT Energy Initiative | May 5, 2015…
Continue readingA Masterwork in Simplicity: The Story of the CC Logo (CreativeCommons.org)
New York’s Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibit, “This is For Everyone: Design Experiments for the Common Good,” that’s close to the heart for all of us in the…
Continue readingNews From MIT MechE: More Juice, More Ketchup
Two stories this week out of MIT’s Department of Mechnical Engineering highlight the range and potential impact of its research. Prof. Tonio Buonassisi’s Photovoltaic Research Laboratory has just published promising results with a new…
Continue readingMega Menger: Building a Menger Sponge at MIT (MIT News)
A Menger Sponge is a three-dimensional fractal curve that has zero volume and infinite surface area. That may be hard to picture, but this MIT News video explains how the Menger Sponge is…
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