Opening Doors / Winter 2019

From the President

President's Letter: Supporting Smartness

A first-year undergraduate once told me that what impressed her most about MIT was learning that “smartness comes in so many different ways.” I had never heard it put quite

Subjects

Why New Undergraduate Chemistry Labs?

The URIECA modules began in 2007 as a new way to teach chemistry majors the ins and outs of lab work with the types of experiments they might encounter in

Opening Doors: Scholarships

Scholarships at MIT

scholarships are the foundation of MIT's needs-blind admission.

Clean Start

This fall marked the grand opening of MIT.nano, an ambitious six-year project to build a state-of-the-art facility for nanoscience and nanotechnology at the heart of the campus.

To Be Continued

Each MIT story is different—but those who give and receive scholarships share a sense of the possibilities

MIT Reshapes Itself to Shape the Future

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

Transforming Traditions

Erin Genia infuses new technologies into the techniques of indigenous art

Do It Yourself

By recreating a chemistry professor’s research, students build the foundations for future discoveries

Leading to Green

Janelle Heslop is no shrinking violet. She found a voice for herself and the environment when she was in middle school, volunteering as a junior docent for the Hudson River