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What’s the cost and financial value of college?At MIT, experts say evidence shows the payoff from college education remains high.

MIT engineers elected to national academyThree engineers are among this year’s 69 new National Academy of Engineering members.

Institute-Wide Task Force aims to sketch the MIT education of the futureSaying ‘we are in the midst of an educational revolution,’ President L. Rafael Reif asks Professor Sanjay Sarma and EVP and Treasurer Israel Ruiz to lead an effort to envision the MIT of 2020 and beyond.

MLK Jr. Breakfast addresses elements of meritocracyAnnual gathering features talks by former NBC executive as well as MIT students and administrators.

SA+P faculty, alumni make their mark in TEDA collection of TEDTalks videos featuring researchers and innovators with ties to MIT's School of Architecture + Planning.

SuperUROP propels undergraduate research to next levelPoster session showcases student advances in key technologies and attracts faculty, venture capitalists and industry sponsors.

Five with ties to MIT earn top IEEE awardsBeranek, Dennis, Chou, Jacobs and Langer are among 20 recipients recognized for decades of engineering achievements.

Inspiring the next generationTelling Your Story workshop connects scientist and engineers with teachers and in the process helps to demystify STEM and excite the next generation of learners.

The What, Who, and How of DUE: Global Education and Career Development (GECD)Global Education & Career Development (GECD) comprises three complementary areas within one office.

Leaders for Global Operations alumna shares enthusiasm for engineeringMary Anito LGO '12 is a passionate advocate for engineering education and careers for girls and young women.

Ozdaglar selected as the inaugural Steven and Renee Finn Innovation FellowThe fellowship provides tenured, mid-career faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineer and Computer Science with resources for up to three years to pursue new research and development paths.

Dropbox CEO Drew Houston will be MIT’s 2013 Commencement speakerMIT alumnus and co-founder of popular file-transfer service will address the Class of 2013 on June 7.

Michael Short spans classroom, forge, reactor

Profile: Roger Lewis (BArch ’64, MArch ’67)Practitioner, professor, journalist, author and cartoonist

School of Engineering teams win big at this year’s MassChallenge

How Jonathan Gruber became ‘Mr. Mandate’An MIT economist’s path to the center of health-care policymaking in Washington.

New books on the shelf from SA+PRecent publishing news from School of Architecture + Planning faculty and alumni

MIT alums recount their Martian experiencesSeveral AeroAstro alumni return to campus to describe landing the Curiosity rover on Mars.

Profile: Ju Li explores new nanomaterialsWorking from the scale of atoms on up, he designs materials for future energy applications.

Nuclear physicist Peter T. Demos dies at 94Longtime faculty member guided MIT’s Bates Linear Accelerator from a groundbreaking idea to a globally renowned center for the study of nuclear structure and reactions.

Celebrating 10 years of Simmons HallPast and current “Sims” join together for a three-day long celebration.

Department snapshot: Aeronautics and AstronauticsAeroAstro takes off in new directions — prompting a 50 percent spike in new undergraduate enrollments.

Junot Díaz wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

Slideshow: Community Inauguration FestivalSaturday's events — including a road race, campus quest and global barbecue — marked the end of the week of festivities around inauguration.

‘We are all in this great enterprise together’In his inaugural address, President L. Rafael Reif aims MIT on a course to shape new directions in education.

Innovation in the classroom‘Future of Education’ symposium, held before the inauguration of President L. Rafael Reif, examines the evolution of teaching and learning.