Education, teaching, academics

Slideshow: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff visits MITBrazil and MIT discuss possible future collaboration.

New nuclear science and engineering faculty drive curriculum expansion into computational science and engineering

School of Engineering to explore collaboration with ITASix-month evaluation will examine the feasibility of a collaboration.

MIT students teach hands-on learning abroadMISTI Global Teaching Labs attracts students looking to share the Institute's unique approach to science and engineering education.

Reif, Grimson: MITx aims to enhance on-campus educationNew online courses add value to MIT’s residential program, provost and chancellor tell students.

A tough calculationStudy: Female students wary of the engineering workplace.

A rocket man settles into SDM

Two MIT juniors named Truman ScholarsMcCord, Okuneye awarded $30,000 for graduate study toward careers in government, non-profits.

Review Committee on Orientation releases recommendations

Explore the Learning Center, MIT’s home base for trainingThe MIT Learning Center marks another milestone: EHS compliance training and STARweb courses from the Office of Sponsored Programs have recently moved to this online locale.

MIT Professor Shigeru Miyagawa named award recipient by the OCW ConsortiumProfessor Miyagawa recognized with other leaders of the global OpenCourseWare movement.

Water world'Weather in a tank' demonstration helps students grasp fluid dynamics.

Four professors named 2012 MacVicar FellowsBroadhead, Kaelbling, Kaiser and Rose awarded the Institute’s highest undergraduate teaching honor.

Anant Agarwal named director of new unit to advance MITxInstructor of inaugural 6.002x course will step down as CSAIL director.

Letter to the community on appointment of Open Learning Enterprise director

Current SHASS MacVicar Faculty Fellows reflect on teaching at MITNew fellows to be named Friday; current SHASS fellows discuss the significance — and the sheer fun — of teaching the Institute's students

Graduate programs in engineering, management excel in new rankingsMIT leads in multiple disciplines, says U.S. News & World Report.

Byki Online builds proficiency in 70 languagesThis resource for the MIT community features instruction in 70 languages, from Afrikaans to Zulu.

Political science PhD candidate Christopher Clary helping to shape U.S. defense policy

Louis S. Osborne PhD ’50, longtime MIT physicist, dies at 88Developed many of the experimental techniques that are now standard practice in high-energy physics

First course offered by MITx beginsMore than 90,000 people have registered for 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics

Haibo Wang, SDM ’12: Systems thinking makes surgeries safer

Robert Whitman, longtime CEE professor, dies at 84World-renowned geotechnical engineer and earthquake expert worked at MIT for more than 40 years.

They’re mastering manufacturingA distinctive MIT program trains engineers and managers who want to build careers on the leading edge of industrial production.

An EMBA student teaches self-defense for everyone

Introduction to Electrical Engineering and Computer Science now available in OCW Scholar format6.01SC is the fourth of seven courses OCW will publish this spring specifically to meet the needs of independent learners.