The Boston Globe

‘A loss for the nation’: MIT president says research has fallen 10 percent, and grad student enrollment is down

MIT president Sally Kornbluth said Thursday that the school’s research enterprise has shrunk 10 percent from a year ago and warned of a persistent drop in graduate admissions as the university ...
InfoWorld

The best new features in Python 3.15

Highlights of Python 3.15, now available in beta, include lazy imports, faster JITs, better error messages, and smarter profiling. The first full beta of Python 3.15 ...
PBS

Shooter who killed MIT professor and Brown students planned attack for months, DOJ says

BOSTON (AP) — The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to ...
PBS

MIT professor's fatal shooting has police still searching for a suspect

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — Police intensified their search Wednesday for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at his home earlier in ...
Lifehacker

Use the 'MIT Method' to Keep Your Big-Picture Goals in Mind During Everyday Tasks

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...
Reason

First Circuit Rejects Harassment Claim Based on MIT Anti-Israel Protests: "[W]e Do Not Construe Title VI as Requiring a University to Quash Protected Speech"

A necessarily oversimplified excerpt from the >12K-word Stand with Us Center for Legal Justice v. MIT, decided by First Circuit Judge William Kayatta, joined by Judge Gustavo Gelpi and District Judge ...
Newsweek

MIT Defies Trump’s Federal Funding Deal: ‘Cannot Support’

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology became the first university ...
NBC News

MIT is first school to reject Trump administration's agenda in exchange for funding benefits

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday became the first school to reject an offer of federal funds in exchange for agreeing to the Trump administration's education agenda. Subscribe to ...
Inside Higher Ed

MIT Rejects Proposed Federal Compact

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has rejected the Trump administration’s proposal to sign on to the “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education,” which would mandate sweeping changes ...
The New York Times

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

The Trump administration offered nine universities benefits in exchange for signing an agreement to protect conservative voices, among other things. M.I.T. was the first to refuse. By Vimal Patel ...
WCVB Channel 5 Boston

MIT president warns of 'significant new financial pressures'

NO INJURIES HAVE BEEN REPORTED FROM THOSE TORNADOES. 520 PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FUNDING CUTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION IS IMPACTING ANOTHER MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL. MIT’S PRESIDENT SAYS THE SCHOOL IS DEALING WITH ...
WBUR

Non-speaking teen with autism — once thought to be intellectually disabled — accepted at MIT

When Viraj Dhanda begins his freshman year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he’ll be the university’s first-ever non-speaking student with autism. Diagnosed with autism at age 2, Viraj ...