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Photo of MIT President L. Rafael Reif

President’s Letter: Supporting Smartness

Clean Start

Classes began in the new Chemistry Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories in the MIT.nano building this past fall. Photo: Ken Richardson

Do It Yourself

By recreating a chemistry professor’s research, students build the foundations for future discoveries

Students participate in a URIECA class

Why New Undergraduate Chemistry Labs?

Stephen Berenson '82 (left) and Matisse Peppet. Photo: M. Scott Brauer

To Be Continued

Each MIT story is different—but those who give and receive scholarships share a sense of the possibilities

Scholarships at MIT

Leading to Green

More efficient or more sustainable? Janelle Heslop helps businesses achieve both

Urgent Care

Ari Bronsoler’s economic analysis helps to identify best practices in a struggling health system

MIT Reshapes Itself to Shape the Future

The MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing

Left: Genia with Acoustic Tipi (2018). Photo: Nicolás Kisic Aguirre; Top Right: A glazed clay vessel made by Genia in 2016, inspired by Standing Rock’s Sacred Stone Camp, depicts the spirit of a water protector. Photo: courtesy of the artist; Bottom Right: Eclipse (2017), Genia’s expression of the morning star created with a CNC cutting machine for the class How to Make (Almost) Anything. Photo: courtesy of the artist

Transforming Traditions

Erin Genia infuses new technologies into the techniques of indigenous art