MassLive

The underground student group at Harvard and MIT that VCs are desperate to access

The first rule of Prod is: you do not talk about Prod. The student‑run nonprofit — whispered about by Harvard and MIT undergrads, and likened to a “secret society” by some investors — has quietly ...
Fox News

MIT professor shot, killed in Brookline home: What we know about Boston-area attack

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Authorities are investigating the death of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor after he was found fatally shot inside his Boston-area apartment earlier this week. Nuno ...
Lifehacker

Use the 'MIT Method' to Keep Your Big-Picture Goals in Mind During Everyday Tasks

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...
Science Daily

MIT quantum breakthrough edges toward room-temp superconductors

MIT scientists uncovered direct evidence of unconventional superconductivity in magic-angle graphene by observing a distinctive V-shaped energy gap. The discovery hints that electron pairing in this ...
Reason

First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge ...
The Hill

MIT rejects Trump compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Friday rejected the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would have required sweeping changes ...
Inside Higher Ed

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes ...
WBUR

Non-speaking teen with autism — once thought to be intellectually disabled — accepted at MIT

When Viraj Dhanda begins his freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he’ll be the university’s first-ever non-speaking student with autism. Diagnosed with autism at age 2, Viraj ...
New York Post

I was chased out of MIT — and it was all because I’m Jewish

People chant and hold signs at a rally to support Palestinians at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. AFP via Getty Images Before Oct. 7, 2023, I was the literal ...
MIT Technology Review

An intelligent, practical path to reindustrialization

The MIT Initiative for New Manufacturing aims to fuel a healthy manufacturing ecosystem to drive decades of innovation and growth. This past spring, we launched a brand-new manufacturing ...
The Hill

ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research

ChatGPT can harm an individual’s critical thinking over time, a study released this month suggests. Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked subjects to write several SAT essays and separated subjects ...