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students sitting at computer workstations

Looking back at Project Athena

A revolutionary educational project in the 1980s put the tools of computation in students’ hands — and foreshadowed even greater changes.
Associate Professor Maria Yang (far right) speaks with participants at the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop.

Giving Grad Women in MechE the Tools to Succeed

For two days in late October, 34 of the brightest minds in mechanical engineering convened on MIT’s campus. They all come from different backgrounds — one person studies human-robot interaction at Stanford University while another conducts research in thermal equipment design at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. But they all have one thing in common: They are…
Students of the BSU

The BSU at 50

A weekend celebration marks the 50th anniversary of the MIT Black Students Union.
Mahdi Ramadan and Alexi Choueiri

Meeting of the Minds

Mahdi Ramadan and Alexi Choueiri’s common experiences as Lebanese evacuees led both to study the human brain at MIT.
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