MIT endowment totaled $16.4 billion at end of fiscal year 2018
A large portion of MIT’s monetary returns were accrued through research, with 27 percent from Lincoln Labs and 19 percent from on-campus research.
City of Cambridge redesigns Massachusetts Avenue lanes
The City of Cambridge held a town hall in 32-155 last Thursday to discuss the new plans to redesign the lanes of Massachusetts Avenue from Sidney Street to Memorial Drive.
MIT.nano to celebrate grand opening today
MIT.nano, a facility devoted to nanoscale measurement and engineering, will have its grand opening Oct. 4. The building contains roughly 100,000 square feet of laboratory space, making it the largest facility of its kind in the United States.
Students take part in innovation competition inside glass cube
Five students were confined to a glass cube outside Stata last weekend to rethink the ambulance of the future.
Blood drive, add date, flu shots
There will be a flu shot clinic Oct. 3 from 9 a.m.–3 p.m. in Walker Memorial.
Student leads protests alleging that MIT allowed rapist to return
Several pieces of chalkboard art in the Stata Center over the past few weeks have claimed that MIT allowed a rapist to return to campus.
MIT launches all-gender bathroom pilot
MIT has launched a pilot project designating four multi-stalled, non-residential bathrooms as all-gender.
MIT Yes on 3 urges students to vote to protect transgender rights
The current law prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity in places of “public accommodation, resort, and amusement,” along with race, sex, religion, and other grounds.
Boston Juggling Festival features workshops, juggling shows, games, and more
The 5th Annual Boston Juggling Festival (formerly JuggleMIT) took place last weekend. These photos showcase some of the festival’s events.
TechMart opens in Walker Memorial
Milk at TechMart costs $2.26, an apple costs $0.49, bread costs $1.50, and a carton of eggs costs $1.79.
MIT welcomes its first-ever humanist chaplain
MIT’s Office of Religious Life is welcoming Greg Epstein as its first-ever humanist chaplain at the Institute. The other chaplains are enthusiastic about the new hiring, since they recognize that there is a large group of secular and nonreligious people at MIT, Epstein said in an interview with The Tech.
Samuel Bodman, MIT Corporation member and former U.S. Secretary of Energy, dies at 79
"We are saddened by his loss but grateful for his impact on the Institute and well beyond,” Robert Millard, chair of the MIT Corporation, told MIT News.
Over 500 fewer enrollments in science GIRs this fall
Compared to 2017, the number of unique classes that first-years registered for increased by 10 percent.
Final exam schedules, Career Fair, add date
Today is Career Fair. First-years and volunteers can enter starting at 9:30 a.m., while general access begins at 10 a.m. The fair will end at 4 p.m.
Good weather for Career Fair, another cooldown to come
The weather today will be good for Career Fair activities as a seasonable but breezy and humid air mass overspreads the area in advance of a strong cold front Friday night.
Evolution of the first-year academic experience
This year, freshmen can designate up to three Science, Mathematics, and Engineering (SME) General Institute Requirements to be graded on a Pass/No Record basis after their first term. In light of this experiment, it is timely to reflect on the history of the first year academic experience at MIT.
Career Fair, UA committee applications, UROP deadline
The UROP direct funding deadline is 5 p.m. Thursday.
Florence’s moisture targets the Northeast
After wreaking havoc across the Carolinas and killing over 20, Florence is finally moving on.
Neural network visualization project wins at HackMIT
About 1,200 students from MIT and around the world coded software projects during the 24-hour hackathon held at Johnson Athletic Center.
Logs accept first woman
Formerly all-male a capella group the Logarhythms added their first female member, Quinn Brodsky ’22, to their group this year.