Suspect in Brown and M.I.T. Killings Discussed Attacks in Videos, Officials Say

Claudio Neves Valente, who is accused of killing two students at Brown and an M.I.T. professor, left rambling descriptions of ...
Time

Universities: The Man Who Cooled M.I.T.

“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 ...
The New Yorker

How I Learned to Concentrate

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 ...
The New Yorker

A Bionic Leg Controlled by the Brain

Hugh Herr, the director of an M.I.T. laboratory that pursues the “merging of body and machine,” grew up in a Mennonite family outside Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He and his brothers—he was the youngest ...
The Fader

Watch Lupe Fiasco’s M.I.T. lecture “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction”

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 New York Times

M.I.T.’s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel.

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 ...