MIT takes top team honors in 86th Putnam Math Competition
The undergraduate team topped the scoreboard for sixth year in a row and also took the Elizabeth Lowell Putnam Prize again.
Two MIT alumnae named 2026 Gates Cambridge Scholars
Mitali Chowdhury ’24 and Christina Kim ’24 will pursue graduate studies at Cambridge University in the UK.
Jacob Andreas and Brett McGuire named Edgerton Award winners
The associate professors of EECS and chemistry, respectively, are honored for exceptional contributions to teaching, research, and service at MIT.
Built to fly
MIT senior, master’s candidate, and airman Brian Robinson lives and works at the intersection of aviation, politics, and technology.
Q&A: MIT SHASS and the future of education in the age of AI
As the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences marks 75 years, Dean Agustín Rayo reflects on how AI is reshaping higher education and why SHASS disciplines continue to be central to MIT’s mission.
Flying at the edge of the stratosphere
MIT students see the Earth’s curvature in reborn AeroAstro intro course
Bridging space research and policy
PhD student Carissma McGee studies exoplanets and examines intellectual property frameworks for space collaborations.
MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2026-27
MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2026-27
Urban planning students engage with communities through the Freedom Summer Fellowship
“You can’t teach planning today without grappling with how policy actually unfolds within communities,” says Professor Phillip Thompson.
Building the blocks of life
Computational biologist Sergei Kotelnikov is working to develop new methods in protein modeling as part of the School of Science Dean’s Postdoctoral Fellowship.