‘I Am A Scientist’ offers students STEM role models
An initiative seeks to make scientists and their work more relatable to young students to promote STEM diversity.
July 23, 2020 • ~4 min
The elephant in the server room
Catherine D’Ignazio’s new book, “Data Feminism,” examines problems of bias and power that beset modern information.
March 9, 2020 • ~7 min
Design, power, and justice
In new book “Design Justice,” Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock examines how to make technology work for more people in society.
March 3, 2020 • ~8 min
Supporting students in Puerto Rico after a hurricane’s devastation
Postdoc Héctor De Jesús-Cortés works to build up the STEM pipeline from his homeland to MIT and beyond.
Dec. 13, 2019 • ~9 min
A summer at the MSRP-Bio reveals connections between proteins, people, and passions
Undergraduate Meucci Ilunga spent 10 weeks investigating protein interactions, exploring career options, and making new friends.
Sept. 3, 2019 • ~8 min
Data-mining for dark matter
Tracy Slatyer hunts through astrophysical data for clues to the invisible universe.
Aug. 15, 2019 • ~9 min
3Q: The fact finders
Lydia Snover and her Institutional Research team gather data to help the Institute to study itself.
May 22, 2019 • ~8 min
From summer research program to PhD dissertation
Graduate student Raspberry Simpson’s scientific journey approaches fruition.
Feb. 15, 2019 • ~6 min
Math Prize for Girls competition helps to close the gender gap in mathematics | MIT News
MIT hosts the 10th annual contest encouraging STEM careers for female middle and high school students.
Sept. 27, 2018 • ~10 min
Paying it forward: Fellowship boosts women in physics | MIT News
Four students are first beneficiaries of grant program established by Assistant Professor Lindley Winslow with support from the Heising-Simons Foundation.
Aug. 2, 2018 • ~6 min
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