Special events and guest speakers
MIT Open Houses since 1923: ice cream and hand-blown vacuum tubes
March 31, 2011
On April 30, MIT will host an open house for the campus community as well as Cambridge and surrounding areas. In fact, this is a continuation of a long tradition.
Department of Energy launches startup-friendly program
March 30, 2011
At MIT, Energy Secretary Chu announces ‘Next Top Energy Innovator’ program, and White House officials tout commitment to helping startups.
Energy Conference spotlights military's green energy
March 22, 2011
Student-led event featured assessments of non-fossil energy's future from leaders in industry, defense and research
You're invited to Convocation
March 18, 2011
MIT community members, alumni and friends of the Institute welcome at the MIT150 Next Century Convocation on April 10.
The past, present and future of cancer
March 18, 2011
Researchers gather to discuss the state of their field and the potential for new treatments.
What we know, and don't know, about Japan's reactors
March 16, 2011
Panel of MIT nuclear engineers aims for clarity about the state of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Also labeled: Earthquakes, Japan, Nuclear power and reactors, Nuclear science and engineering, Tsunami
‘We need to see ahead’
March 15, 2011
In Compton Lecture, Secretary of Homeland Security Napolitano calls for ‘a deeper partnership’ between government and scientists on national security.
Chinese property tycoon encourages entrepreneurship
March 14, 2011
During talk at MIT Sloan, Zhang Xin details how she helped bring 'color to Beijing'
David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research feted
March 8, 2011
MIT celebrates the official opening of the institute's new building.
Also labeled: Campus buildings and architecture, Cancer, Convergence, Kendall Square, Koch Institute, Research
Strength in numbers
March 8, 2011
At MIT’s annual sports analytics conference, owners, coaches and statistics mavens convene to ask how numbers can help increase success.
Alum-astronaut Robert Satcher: ‘We need to get everybody on board’
February 24, 2011
Delivers keynote address at the annual Laureates and Leaders induction ceremony
A migration that shaped a nation
February 24, 2011
In MIT talk, author Isabel Wilkerson discusses how the Great Migration changed American history.
Rivest unlocks cryptography's past, looks toward future
February 15, 2011
Public-key system has worked and made Internet commerce feasible, but new systems are ready in case flaws are found.
'We do it right — now — or it’s over'
February 14, 2011
GM chairman and CEO Akerson examines his company's future at Sloan dean's speaker series.
King’s legacy celebrated at MIT
February 10, 2011
CNN's Roland Martin, at annual MLK Jr. breakfast, says the civil rights leader’s example of personal commitment and nonviolence lives on.
Also labeled: Diversity, MIT presidency
Examining the impact of human diversity
February 9, 2011
Four-part forum series kicks off this Thursday.
Sen. Scott Brown visits MIT
February 7, 2011
The Massachusetts Republican says the kind of work done at MIT 'can get our economy going.'
Engineering leadership skills: sometimes a matter of life and death
January 31, 2011
Gordon Engineering Leaders team up to build quinzee shelter during 'project engineering' course.
Also labeled: Engineering leadership education, Leadership
Feb. 3 Friedman event postponed
January 31, 2011
CNN's Martin to deliver keynote address at MLK Jr. breakfast
January 31, 2011
37th annual event taking place Feb. 9; registration required by Feb. 5
Economists converge at MIT
January 31, 2011
Nobel laureates, public intellectuals gather for frank debate on economy, politics and the state of their profession.
Alumni power fuels this week’s MIT150 economics and finance symposium
January 26, 2011
MIT's strength in economics and finance education is manifest in this week's alumni-rich lineup of panelists.
3 Questions: David Briggs on playing the organ in Kresge Auditorium
January 13, 2011
World-renowned organist restores an MIT tradition playing a free concert on one of the Institute's historic instruments.
Hockfield discusses science, innovation and MIT150 on NPR
January 7, 2011
On eve of the Institute's anniversary, MIT president talks with On Point's Tom Ashbrook
Also labeled: MIT presidency, MIT150
Let the celebrations begin
January 7, 2011
In kickoff to Institute’s sesquicentennial celebration, MIT Museum shows off 150 artifacts from MIT’s rich history.
Also labeled: Alumni/ae, Faculty, History of MIT, MIT Museum, MIT presidency, MIT150, Staff, Students
MIT prepares for its 150th anniversary
December 21, 2010
For 150 days in 2011, the Institute will celebrate ‘many different MITs’ as it honors its past and imagines its future.
Paul Farmer on Rebuilding Haiti
December 16, 2010
Sponsored by MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society, Arthur Miller Lecture on Science and Ethics
Suresh discusses the role of engineering in the study of infectious disease
December 13, 2010
In public lecture at MIT, former dean describes progress in understanding malaria.



























