“The institute came through a real test. Violence didn’t succeed in radicalizing the student body, and peaceful dissent is stronger than ever. I believe this had significance for this institution —and ...

Dr. Sally Kornbluth, who is new to M.I.T., did not draw nearly as much fire as her counterparts at Harvard and Penn after last week’s congressional hearing. By Jenna Russell Reporting from Cambridge, ...

Dorian Abbot is a scientist who has opposed aspects of affirmative action. He is now at the center of an argument over free speech and acceptable discourse. By Michael Powell CHICAGO — The ...

I arrived at M.I.T. in the fall of 2004. I had just turned twenty-two, and was there to pursue a doctorate as part of something called the Theory of Computation group—a band of computer scientists who ...

Last May, Chicago rap vet Lupe Fiasco announced that he’d be teaching a rap course at the Massachusetts Institute Of Technology (M.I.T.) in the 2022-23 academic year as part of the M.L.K. Visiting ...

The odds of getting admitted to M.I.T. are very slim. A Brookline teenager, Viraj Dhanda, who is nonverbal and autistic, alongside his devoted father, Sumit, pulled this off. It’s never been easy for ...