| Expanded Financial Aid | | | | | | Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting next fall, thanks to newly expanded financial aid. Parents with family income below $100,000 can expect to pay nothing at all toward the full cost of their students’ MIT education, which includes tuition as well as housing, dining, fees, and an allowance for books and personal expenses. |
| Four from MIT named 2025 Rhodes Scholars Yiming Chen ’24, Wilhem Hector, Anushka Nair, and David Oluigbo will start postgraduate studies at Oxford next fall. |  |
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| A bioinspired capsule can pump drugs directly into the walls of the GI tract The needle-free device could be used to deliver insulin, antibodies, RNA, or other large molecules. |  |
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| How can electrons split into fractions of themselves? Physicists were surprised to discover electrons in pentalayer graphene can exhibit fractional charge. A new study suggests how this could work. |  |
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| Your child, the sophisticated language learner New research shows that a grasp of grammar helps even very young children figure out when they must acquire new words. |  |
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| Catherine Wolfram: High-energy scholar The MIT Sloan professor has become a leading energy economist through original studies that can inform our global climate response. |  |
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| Turning automotive engines into modular chemical plants to make green fuels The MIT spinout Emvolon is placing its repurposed engines next to methane sources, to generate greener methanol and other chemicals. |  |
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| This robot can build anything you ask for out of blocks // New Scientist MIT researchers developed a robot capable of assembling “building blocks called voxels to build an object with almost any shape.” |
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| Science // Craft in America Craft in America visits Professor Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to learn about their work with computational origami. |
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| MIT to cover full tuition for undergrads from households making below $200,000 // WBUR As part of an effort to increase affordability for students and families, MIT undergraduate students from households making less than $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free, starting in fall 2025. |
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| Nobel-winning MIT professors say a strong democracy creates a strong economy // GBH Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu and Professor Simon Johnson, recipients of the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics, discuss their research examining the role of institutions in creating shared prosperity. |
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| | | Can you place this MIT campus shot? Read on to find out the answer! (Photo: Hanley Valentin) |
 | | | | Suddenly, I was learning far more than I had expected about treaties, nuclear arms control, and foreign relations. But once I was hooked, I couldn’t be stopped as that summer sparked a much broader interest in diplomacy and set me on a different path. | | —Anoushka Bose ’20 on the impact of the MIT Washington Summer Internship Program on her career trajectory |
The energy transition is happening — but why is it taking so long? In an episode of the new What If it Works podcast, William H. Green, an MIT professor of chemical engineering and director of the MIT Energy Initiative, explains why shifting to cleaner energy sources has been happening so slowly and how this process could move faster. He also shares what university researchers, industry leaders, and policy makers are doing to accelerate the transition.
Listen to the episode→ |
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