New “AI Comes Out of the Closet” system seeks to merge artificial intelligence and LGBTQIA+ support.

Postdoc Shaniel Bowen studies women's sexual anatomy and health while also working to interest young women in STEM careers.

The MIT professor emerita and influential molecular biologist is being honored for her advocacy for women in science.

MIT community members made headlines with key research advances and their efforts to tackle pressing challenges.

MIT computer scientists developed a way to calculate polygenic scores that makes them more accurate for people across diverse ancestries.

MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center will receive DoE support to improve access to fusion data and increase workforce diversity.

Evaluating articles and journals using a new “diversity index” could promote a wider range of perspectives and better global health outcomes, researchers say.

President Sally Kornbluth talks with Associate Professor Mai Hassan about public administration in Africa and how people mobilize against repressive regimes.

This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research,  AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.

Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.