Three MIT seniors — Sara V. Fernandez, Amanda Hu, and Brigette Wang — have been named 2024 Schwarzman Scholars and will join the program’s eighth cohort, consisting of 151 scholars from 36 countries.

Via @mit_hobbyshop on Instagram: While rapper @lupefiasco is at MIT he is working to launch @play_ur, an international governing body for the game of UR. We had the pleasure of working with him last week to make boards for a tournament at the @mitbsu.

“Today’s struggle [in Iran] is part of a long genealogy of revolutions in which generations of Iranians have sought a more representative, democratic, accountable, equitable, just, and humane government,” says MIT historian Pouya Alimagham.

A new method lets users search a remote database without revealing the information they are seeking to the server. It’s also 30 times faster than other techniques. “This work is really about giving users back some control over their own data,” says Alexandra Henzinger.

Undergraduate Evelyn De La Rosa made her way to MIT via the Transfer Scholars Network, which provides community college students with a pathway to four-year universities. Before participating in the program, she says, “MIT wasn’t on the market for me.”

As MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif forged new opportunities for people to learn, teach, and discover under supportive conditions. Formerly a first-generation college student, he says his desire to reach out to others from diverse backgrounds “drove almost everything I did here.”