One of the things I've come to value deeply about the MIT community is the near-universal willingness to name a problem, measure it, design a solution, and keep iterating until it's right. It's an approach that has worked for a long time, and it's one we'll continue to rely on. As we step into the...

When I last wrote to you in this magazine, I told you a bit about the MIT Collaboratives, an effort to spark new ideas and modes of inquiry and help the people of MIT solve global problems. Since then, we've launched the first collaborative, grounding it in the human-centered fields represented by our School of...

After decades of working as a biologist at a Southern school with a Division1 football team, coming to MIT was a bit of a culture shock-in the best possible way. I've heard from MIT alumni all about late-night psetting, when to catch MITHenge, and the best way to celebrate Pi Day (with pie, of course)....

This past spring, we launched a brand-new manufacturing initiative-building on ideas that are as old as MIT. Since William Barton Rogers created a school to help accelerate America's industrialization, manufacturing has been an essential part of our mission-a particularly MIT brand of manufacturing, informed and improved by scientific principles and advanced by the kind of...