Reversing Alzheimer’s gene ‘blockade’ can restore memory, other cognitive...
MIT neuroscientists have shown that an enzyme overproduced in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients creates a blockade that shuts off genes necessary to form new memories. Furthermore, by inhibiting that...
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Disruptive innovation — in education
Anant Agarwal, head of MIT's Open Learning Enterprise, which will oversee MITx’s development. Photo: M. Scott Brauer It’s midnight, and Anant Agarwal is still at his computer. He’s not, however, tying...
View ArticleHow attention helps you remember
A new study from MIT neuroscientists sheds light on a neural circuit that makes us likelier to remember what we’re seeing when our brains are in a more attentive state.The team of neuroscientists found...
View ArticleUnderstanding Light
With the exception of the few children who couldn’t make it to school, every sixth-grader in the Cambridge public schools — 17 classes in all — has walked through the hallways of MIT to participate in...
View ArticleGordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program showcased in new NAE publication
The Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program is one of 29 programs highlighted in a new, free publication from the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) called "Infusing Real World...
View ArticleSibling power
It’s not often that you find two siblings more in sync than Andrew and Jennifer Barry. They go on long runs together along the Charles River, play Frisbee together during the summer and both study...
View ArticleAiming deep with the Marine Robotics Team
“This is a big deal, guys.”That is what Jackie Sly ’14 tells freshmen and sophomores she has helped recruit for the Marine Robotics Team (MRT), an Edgerton Center-sponsored team that focuses on...
View ArticleStudents invited to become Gordon Engineering Leaders
All MIT School of Engineering students, as well as students from other majors, are invited to apply to join the Bernard M. Gordon-MIT Engineering Leadership Program (GEL). The program will select...
View ArticleTerrascope: Not the typical first semester class
Editor's note: Bennett Cyphers is a freshman from Plattsburgh, N.Y. who has taken two Terrascope classes, 12.000 and 1.016. He is majoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and enjoys...
View ArticleThe What, Who and How of DUE: Concourse
This is the 7th in a series of articles from the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education (DUE) that answers the questions: What does that office really do? Who works there? And how does the...
View ArticleLearning software development — by developing software
Since at least the late 19th century, when John Dewey opened his experimental Laboratory School at the University of Chicago, experiential learning — learning by doing — has had strong proponents among...
View ArticleMIT Sloan’s new track: Enterprise Management
For nearly a decade, MarketLab, a subgroup of the MIT Sloan Marketing Club, offered students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience working on semester-long marketing projects for companies like...
View Article6.003z signals a new open education ecosystem
Earlier this year, the New York Times declared 2012 the “Year of the MOOC.” Massive open online courses have captured the public imagination because they offer a blueprint for a fundamental shift in...
View ArticleMission Southwest: Mines, water and rocks
Editor's note: The following piece was written by first-year students and members of Terrascope Rin Yunis, Emily Shorin and Judy Pu. The students recently returned from a trip to the American...
View ArticleKids coding in the cloud
One of the most popular online destinations on the MIT network is not a website for scientists, engineers or college students, but an online community where kids learn to code.Every day, thousands of...
View ArticleMachine shop builds lifelong skills
Not every MIT graduate feels the need to buy his or her own CNC Bridgeport milling machine. But that is exactly what Adam Madlinger ’07, SM ’08 did. With a job at Exxon Mobil in research and...
View ArticleComplex brain function depends on flexibility
Over the past few decades, neuroscientists have made much progress in mapping the brain by deciphering the functions of individual neurons that perform very specific tasks, such as recognizing the...
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The What, Who and How of DUE: The Teaching and Learning Laboratory
This is the eighth in a series of articles from the Office of the Dean for Undergraduate Education (DUE) that answers the questions: What does that office really do? Who works there? And how does the...
View ArticleLINC 2013 explores global technology-enabled learning
Approximately 300 participants from nearly 50 different countries gathered at the MIT Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) 2013 Conference from June 16-19 to discuss the realities and...
View ArticleMITx course aims to start worldwide conversation about global architecture
Mark Jarzombek, MIT Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture, is already deeply familiar with the concepts behind global architecture—he has authored and co-authored two highly regarded...
View ArticleMITx philosophy course hits the hard questions
Philosophy has a tough job. Because it concerns itself with matters that don’t fit neatly into the concrete categories of modern science, one is often testing the outer limits of language and thought....
View ArticleHow old memories fade away
If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him. However, if the bully moved out of town, you would...
View Article2.03x Dynamics aims to improve learning on and off campus
Beginning this fall, students everywhere will have an opportunity to better understand one of the classic experiences of an MIT undergraduate, when edX releases 2.03x Dynamics on Oct. 28. Mechanical...
View ArticleReif releases preliminary report of the Institute-Wide Task Force on the...
President L. Rafael Reif has released the preliminary report of the Institute-Wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education — a document that, following months of engagement with the MIT community,...
View ArticleMIT and Harvard release working papers on open online courses
MIT and Harvard University today announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. Run in 2012 and 2013, the courses analyzed drew upon diverse...
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