MIT announces the Initiative for New Manufacturing

The Institute-wide effort aims to bolster industry and create jobs by driving innovation across vital manufacturing sectors.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
May 27, 2025 ~9 min

MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work

With support from the Stone Foundation, the center will advance cutting-edge research and inform policy.

Department of Economics • mit
May 13, 2025 ~7 min


Chinese research isn’t taken as seriously as papers from elsewhere – my new study

A study of over 8,000 articles in top economics journals finds that authors with Chinese surnames are 14% less likely to be cited.

Peng Zhou, Professor of Economics, Cardiff University • conversation
May 8, 2025 ~8 min

Q&A: A roadmap for revolutionizing health care through data-driven innovation

A new book coauthored by MIT’s Dimitris Bertsimas explores how analytics is driving decisions and outcomes in health care.

Sara Feijo | MIT Open Learning • mit
May 5, 2025 ~7 min

Study in India shows kids use different math skills at work vs. school

Students can excel at mental math in marketplace jobs but struggle with formal math in the classroom, and vice versa.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
Feb. 5, 2025 ~9 min

Bogus scientific papers are enriching fraudsters and slowing lifesaving medical research

The world’s library of scientific papers is becoming contaminated as fraudsters use ‘paper mills’ to game scholarly publishing for profit.

Guillaume Cabanac, Professor of Computer Science, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse • conversation
Jan. 31, 2025 ~12 min

Fake papers are contaminating the world’s scientific literature, fueling a corrupt industry and slowing legitimate lifesaving medical research

‘Paper mills’ are contaminating the world’s scholarly output with fake papers that hinder research. Lifesaving biomedical fields are especially hard hit.

Guillaume Cabanac, Professor of Computer Science, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse • conversation
Jan. 29, 2025 ~46 min

From refugee to MIT graduate student

As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program to help the West African nation thrive.

Marisa Demers | MIT Open Learning • mit
Dec. 3, 2024 ~6 min


Q&A: A STEAM framework that prepares learners for evolving careers and technologies

MIT pK-12 at Open Learning co-created a secondary school learning architecture that’s available for adoption and adaptation by educational practitioners worldwide.

Katherine Ouellette | MIT Open Learning • mit
Nov. 4, 2024 ~7 min

MIT OpenCourseWare “changed how I think about teaching and what a university is”

Bernardo Picão, a graduate student in physics, has turned to MIT Open Learning’s resources throughout his educational journey.

Lauren Rebecca Thacker | MIT Open Learning • mit
July 15, 2024 ~5 min

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