Political

Senior Grace McMillan grew up in western New York state in an all-woman intergenerational house. In the Nineteen Eighties, her grandmother and mom defected from the USSR and got here to the United States as refugees. They have been the one Ukrainian household of their semi-rural city.  “My mother would inform me tales about how […] More

MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) and Department of Economics have introduced an growth of their collectively administered Master of Applied Science in Data, Economics, and Design of Policy (DEDP) program. This growth provides a brand new public coverage monitor to enrich the present worldwide improvement monitor, opening up new avenues for scholar […] More

Evan Lieberman is the Total Professor of Political Science and Contemporary Africa at MIT, and can be director of the Center for International Studies. During a semester-long sabbatical, he’s presently primarily based on the African Climate and Development Initiative on the University of Cape Town. In this Q&A, Lieberman discusses a number of climate-related analysis […] More

As of 2015, about one-third of all 15-year-old college students in Latin America lacked rudimentary literacy and math abilities, based on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Those college students might have been enrolled at school, however they weren’t getting an schooling. “They’re basically condemned to a lifetime of unskilled jobs,” says MIT professor […] More

While many years of discriminatory insurance policies and practices proceed to gasoline the reasonably priced housing disaster within the United States, lower than three miles from the MIT campus exists a beacon of innovation and group empowerment. “We are very proud to proceed MIT’s long-standing partnership with Camfield Estates,” says Catherine D’Ignazio, affiliate professor of […] More

Over 180 world leaders preserve social media accounts, and a few of them subject coverage warnings to rivals and the general public on these platforms reasonably than counting on conventional authorities statements. How severely do folks take such social media postings? A brand new research suggests most of the people and policymakers alike take leaders’ […] More

It’s a query that occupies vital bandwidth on the planet of nuclear arms safety: Could hypersonic missiles, which fly at speeds of least 5 instances the pace of sound, enhance the chance of nuclear conflict? Eli Sanchez, who just lately accomplished his doctoral research at MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering (NSE), explored these […] More

Add up the commitments from the Paris Agreement, the Glasgow Climate Pact, and varied commitments made by cities, international locations, and companies, and the world would have the ability to maintain the worldwide common temperature improve to 1.9 levels Celsius above preindustrial ranges, says Ani Dasgupta, the president and chief govt officer of the World […] More

It’s no information that corporations use cash to affect politics. But it might come as a shock to be taught that many family-owned companies — the commonest type of enterprise on this planet — don’t play by the identical guidelines. New analysis by political science PhD candidate Sukrit Puri reveals that “household companies depart from […] More

Sixteen worldwide mid-career city planners and public directors not too long ago bid farewell to the MIT campus, having accomplished a 10-month exploration of North American schooling and tradition designed to increase their skilled networks and infuse their work with new insights as they return to influential positions in authorities businesses, personal companies, and different organizations […] More

This spring, 26 MIT college students and postdocs traveled to Washington to satisfy with congressional staffers to advocate for elevated science funding for fiscal yr 2025. These conversations had been impactful given the current announcement of funds cuts for a number of federal science companies for FY24.  The individuals met with 85 congressional places of […] More

MIT professors Erik Lin-Greenberg and Tracy Slatyer actually perceive the optimistic affect that advisors have within the lifetime of a graduate scholar. Two of the newest school members to be named “Committed to Caring,” they attribute their excellence in advising to the difficult experiences and life-changing mentorship they obtained throughout their very own graduate faculty […] More