Special events and guest speakers

Thousands attended last year's Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

Game on

As MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference kicks off, scholars and fans have produced a growing avalanche of quantitative research.

March 2, 2012

Cheers and excitement from the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education as Sharon Bridburg, Director of Human Resources, receives a 2012 Excellence Award for Bringing Out the Best.

Slideshow: 2012 MIT Excellence Awards

March 1, 2012

About 20 MIT students attended an hour-long L.E.A.D. workshop focused on preparing to lead student organizations.

Helping MIT students develop as leaders

L.E.A.D. program provides accessible leadership workshops and resources.

February 29, 2012

2011–12 Knight Fellows Alister Doyle, Hepeng Jia, Eli Kintisch and Joyce Murdoch speak on a panel about science communication.

Knight Fellows offer tips on tackling the energy and climate science beat

Science journalists discuss the current state of their profession and its future.

February 24, 2012

MBA students raise funds for several charities

February 21, 2012

Visiting Artist Ben Houge presents at Sound and Real-Time Systems panel.

Visiting Artist Ben Houge leads lively 'Sound and Real-Time Systems' panel

Artists discuss the convergence between video games, digital media and music composition.

February 17, 2012

McDermott Award winner Robert Lepage initiates a semester-long workshop with students across MIT on Feb. 12.

Robert Lepage launches workshop on Feb. 12

MIT students collaborate with McDermott Award recipient Lepage and discover creative possibilities of playing cards.

February 13, 2012

MIT senior Shamarah Hernandez reflected on the event's theme, 'Expanding the Possible.'

MIT honors Martin Luther King Jr. at 38th annual breakfast

Diversity and education among breakfast-table topics.

February 10, 2012

MIT President Susan Hockfield delivers a lecture on Tuesday evening at the Boston Public Library as part of the Lowell Lecture Series, which commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.

MIT and the Civil War

President Susan Hockfield speaks on the struggle for America’s future — then and now.

February 9, 2012

Proof that 'MIT Can Talk'

IAP activity promotes campus-wide awareness of good oral communication skills.

February 7, 2012

Hockfield and President of Israel Shimon Peres, who attended the MIT neuroscience breakfast.

MIT faculty speak at the World Economic Forum in Davos

Talks explore the mind/machine interface and the science of predicting the economy, among other topics.

February 1, 2012

EPA's top air official, Gina McCarthy, leads roundtable discussion.

EPA air chief talks energy, environment with MIT experts

January 31, 2012

Harvard College Dean Evelynn Hammonds gives the keynote address at the 2012 Institute Diversity Summit.

Diversity and excellence explored at Institute summit

Faculty and students offered multiple perspectives on race and gender

January 31, 2012

Senior Molly Kozminsky shows off the winner of the fifth annual MIT Hummus Taste Off: "Messrs Bentry and Lolpert’s Silk Road Hipster Hummus with Grapefruit Black Tea Infusion."

Giving chickpeas a chance since 2008

Students, faculty and staff taste and compete in fifth annual Hummus Experience

January 25, 2012

Richard Garriott speaks with a student at the 2011 Zero Robotics Challenge.

Robots go head to head, 250 miles above Earth

Third annual Zero Robotics competition pits robots against each other on the International Space Station.