Join us for Storytime with Christina! Innovative Octopuses is the third book in the Extraordinary Animals series, and it delves into the mind-bending world of amazing animal brains.

Come and enjoy a Storytime adventure with us! Craft and Snack to follow

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Meet the Author- Christina Couch

In this webinar, hosted by MIT Open Learning, authors from the AI + Open Education Initiative will discuss rapid response papers on the topics of professional education, the judicious use of AI, and open practices. The following papers and authors will be spotlighted:

 

AI Literacies and the Advancement of Opened Cultures with Angela Gunder and Joshua HerronAuto Evaluation: A Critical Measure in Driving Improvements in Quality and Safety of AI-Generated Lesson Resources with Hannah-Beth Clark and Margaux Dowland 

Before opening to audience questions, speakers will engage with respondent Nick Baker, the director of the Office of Open Learning at the University of Windsor, in a discussion on:

 

How AI might accelerate responsive open education practicesWhat inequalities might become more entrenched through AI applicationsWhat new literacies are needed for creators of open content co-creating with AI? 

The purpose of this webinar is to shape the discourse about these pressing issues, and to invite multiple perspectives as we tackle these challenges together.  REGISTER NOW

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AI + Open Education Initiative Speaker Series: AI Literacies and Evaluation

Ocean discoveries over the past 50 years have reshaped our understanding of Earth's systems. Advances in robotics and sensors now enable deep-sea and coastal exploration, uncovering microbes and fungi crucial to ocean health and carbon cycling. Meanwhile, satellite Earth observation has revolutionized ocean monitoring and resource management. Join ​Dr. Katy Croff Bell (deep-sea exploration), Jo Hickman (marine microbial ecology), and Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapthy (space technologies) as they discuss how space and deep-sea technologies are democratizing research, driving biological discoveries, and informing climate strategies with the MIT Science Policy Review.

 

Speakers:

Dr. Katy Croff Bell, Founder and President, Ocean Discovery League

Jo Hickman, Ph.D. student MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Applied Ocean Science and Engineering 

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy, Research Engineer and Program Lead, Future Worlds, MIT Media Lab

 

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Contact Kate Danahy at kdanahy@mit.edu with any questions. 

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Exploring Ocean Space: Where Deep Sea and Space Technologies Converge

Ocean discoveries over the past 50 years have reshaped our understanding of Earth's systems. Advances in robotics and sensors now enable unprecedented deep-sea and coastal exploration, uncovering microbes and fungi crucial to ocean health and carbon cycling. Meanwhile, satellite Earth observation has revolutionized ocean monitoring and resource management.

But how do these two realms—space and the deep sea—intersect to advance research and policymaking? How do satellite data and deep-sea sensors work together to drive biological discoveries and inform climate strategies? Join our experts in deep-sea exploration, marine microbial ecology, and space technologies as they explore these questions and more with the MIT Science Policy Review.

 

Speakers:

Katy Croff Bell, PhD, Founder and President, Ocean Discovery League: deep-sea explorer dedicated to democratizing ocean exploration through low-cost technologies, AI-driven data analysis, and capacity building. Bell’s expertise spans ocean engineering, maritime archaeology, and geological oceanography, and she has led numerous expeditions to advance accessible deep-sea discovery.

Jo Hickman, Ph.D. student MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography, Applied Ocean Science and Engineering: studies marine microbial ecology, focusing on the biodiversity and ecological roles of understudied microbial eukaryotes in the open ocean. Hickman leverages a background in bioinformatics, earth science, and philosophy to bridge ocean science, technology, and policy for climate change mitigation and environmental decision-making.

Minoo Rathnasabapathy, PhD, Research Engineer and Program Lead, Future Worlds, MIT Media Lab: expert in space technologies driving climate intelligence and sustainability solutions. Rathnasabapathy combines an aerospace engineering background with global space policy leadership to bridge innovation and governance in addressing pressing environmental challenges.

 

Moderator:

Amelia Macapia, Guest Investigator, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: researcher in bioacoustics and sensory ecology studying acoustic monitoring for science-based conservation and management.  

 

Please RSVP here. There is a Zoom option available; please indicate if you prefer that option in your RSVP. A link will be sent to you prior to the event. 

Lunch will be available. Contact Kate Danahy at kdanahy@mit.edu with any questions. 

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From Ocean to Orbit: How Deep-Sea and Space Technologies Advance Marine Discoveries

Get ready for the MIT $100K Launch Competition, where entrepreneurs battle it out for a chance to win big money and advance their startup

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MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition - Launch

Join us at the kickoff event for the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium. Get an early look at the proposals selected for funding and hear a series of lightning talks from the funding recipients, followed by a networking reception.

 

About: Launched as a presidential initiative, the MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC) is driven by bold, transformative goals that are designed to unlock the full power of generative AI and drive meaningful, far-reaching change. This impactful consortium brings together corporate leaders and MIT's leading researchers to focus on urgent applications of generative AI across disciplines, such as life sciences, health, climate sustainability, finance, and education. MGAIC aims to envision the future of education and work enabled by AI, develop a deeper understanding of AI's societal impacts, educate global business leaders on AI applications, and produce open-source solutions.

 

The consortium is led by MIT’s Office of Innovation and Strategy and administered by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.

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MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium Kickoff Event

For Researchers Interested in Commercializing their New Technology

Learn what I-Corps is all about and what to expect in the programExplore the benefits of participating in our I-Corps short courseWhat will the next steps be toward a potential $2MM in non-dilutive funding support 

There will be an opportunity for Q&A at the end of the session

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New England I-Corps Program Information Session

Dear colleagues, students, and friends,

 

Join us on our journey toward building a better world!

 

The Global Humanities Initiative (GHI) was born in 2021 with the goal of creating an MIT-based worldwide community that works globally towards reinvigorating humanistic learning and education by radically expanding the geographical scope and temporal depth of humanistic disciplines, thereby reimagining their critical relevance to the grand challenges of today’s world.

 

True to an enhanced version of MIT’s motto, “mens, manus et cor” (mind, hand & heart), GHI proposes a hands-on approach to addressing the pressing challenges of our time. Our motto is “Legacies for Our Future,” setting our compass on promoting human flourishing now and creating good legacies for the future of humankind and our planet.

 

We invite you to a special evening celebrating our humanity and community. The event will feature a distinguished surprise speaker, dynamic pitches from GHI members, a keynote address by Kim Jae-hui, Consul General of the Republic of Korea in Boston, a special performance by Grammy Award-winning pioneering multi-style cellist Mike Block, a reinterpretation of Asian traditional dance by the student dance team MIT Flow, and a Korean folk painting (minhwa) experience with three artists during the reception.

 

Join us on this shared journey to reimagine the power of the humanities—together!

 

Warmest regards,

Wiebke Denecke and the GHI team

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1. Main Event:     

- Distinguished Surprise Guest

- Welcome: Wiebke Denecke (Faculty Lead of GHI, Literature)

 

GHI Member Pitches

Jason Chen (MIT‘25, Mechanical Engineering & Literature)Diana Henderson (Literature)Otto Scharmer (Sloan School of Management)Alicia Stevens (Cambridge University) & Kyaw Moe KhineRichard Eberhardt (Game Lab, MIT)Kelly Kim (MIT’26, Literature & Management)Margery Resnick (Literature)Johannes Makar (Harvard University) 

- Mike Block @ Silkroad’s Global Musician Workshop – A Global Bach Surprise for GHI

 

- MIT Flow Dance Team – Arirang 《阿里郎》

 

- Kim Jae-Hui (Consul General of the Republic of Korea) – The Art of Cultural Diplomacy in an Age of Global Imbalance

 

- MIT Flow Dance Team – By the Water 《在水一方》

 

- Mike Block – Special Sing-along


2. Reception with Ch'aekkŏri (Scholars’ Studio Art) Donation Ceremony & Korean Painting Workshop

- Painting Donation Ceremony

Chung Byungmo (Director of the School of Korean Folk Art, Seoul) 

- Opening of buffet and Korean Folk Art experience

Kwak Yunmi, Kim Hakyung & Lee Jisun (Minhwa Artists, Seoul)
For questions, please contact the GHI coordinator Dr. Johann Noh at noh1214@mit.edu.

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INVITATION: Celebrate Global Humanities @ MIT for a Better World

For Researchers Interested in Commercializing their New Technology  

Explore taking your new technology to the marketplace Get entrepreneurial training, support to identify customers Learn how to apply for $50,000 from the NSFIncrease your chances of receiving an SBIR/STTR awardClick here for more details

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MIT I-Corps: For Researchers Considering a Technology-based Startup

New England I-Corps: For Researchers Considering a Technology-based Startup

Discussion ODSC Startup Showcase at the Open Data Science Conference

ODSC Startup Showcase

13 new startups emerge from MITdesignX this year.

We start off Pitch and Demo Day at 2pm, giving the live audience a chance to meet with the teams and see their new products and services. A lunch buffet will be served.

At 3pm, we begin our presentations with a recap of the year at MITdesignX and pitches by all the new startups. This segment of the day will be hybrid and livestreamed online to a global audience.

We hope to see you in person or online on May 16! Please register here.

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MITdesignX Demo + Pitch Day 2025

MITdesignX Pitch/Demo 2025

Speaker/ Moderator: Manish Bharadwaj, Ph.D.

Manish directs Keller Center's Design for Innovation program for faculty in the humanities and social sciences. He was previously the James Wei Visiting Professor at Keller, where he taught idealism in entrepreneurship. Manish is the CEO and co-founder of Innovators In Health, which is devoted to delivering world-class healthcare to the rural poor in India. Manish is also a Fellow of the Dalai Lama Center for Ethics and Transformative Values at MIT. Manish believes that a venture to make the world more just is fundamentally a moral, not technical, undertaking. It requires cultivating a moral imagination, an ability to imagine why people do right or wrong, the root of empathy, itself the root of all enduring change. He believes that accompaniment, to stand with the marginalized, literally and figuratively, is a moral imperative, and in and of itself a powerful means of change.

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Student Roundtable: Can Social Change-makers make the World Just?

As universities renowned for their scientific contributions that benefit society, both MIT and Imperial College London share a commitment to address key global challenges. Over the last 10 years, they have done so through the MIT-Imperial Seed Fund, which aims to help kick-start early-stage projects between two of the world’s leading universities that lead to high-impact research, discovery science and the deployment of frontier technologies

This event will celebrate 10 years of our strategic partnership by showcasing several MIT-Imperial joint projects and their key outcomes and achievements. Please join us as we demonstrate the benefits and impact of this significant transatlantic collaboration.

Please register for the event here.

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MIT-Imperial Seed Fund 10th Anniversary Celebration: A Decade of Transatlantic Collaboration in Science & Technology

Each year, MIT supports five journalists around the country in developing deeply-reported stories about climate change and its solutions, for the news outlets Americans trust the most: the local and regional newsrooms where reporters write about their own communities. This spring, these MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellows focused on the under-covered climate challenges of the food, agriculture and waste sector—which accounts for over 10% of America's climate pollution and the majority of our powerful, fast-warming methane.

Join MIT's newest class of Fellows as they discuss their work covering food, waste and climate in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Texas, Maryland and Illinois. Special guest moderator Jenny Splitter, editor-in-chief of Sentient Media, will lead a conversation with our fellows on the diverse audiences they engaged, the challenges and opportunities of climate reporting in local outlets, and how they connected their stories to local values and priorities—for their readers, and for the farmers, waste managers and city and state officials with the greatest capacity to effect change.

 

About the panelists

Karina Atkins is a Chicago-based environmental journalist covering how climate change is affecting the Midwest. Her fellowship project for the Chicago Tribune explores overlooked threats to Illinois’ farmland and groundwater that, if left unaddressed, could prove catastrophic for national food security in the face of climate change, while showing how, with proper regulations and investment, Illinois still has time to become a hub for climate-smart agriculture.

Carolyn Beans is a science reporter covering food, agriculture, and health from her home base in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Her food writing has appeared in Undark, The Atlantic, PNAS Front Matter, Slate, The Washington Post, TED-Ed, The Food and Environment Reporting Network and other outlets. Her project reports on Pennsylvania dairy farmers’ efforts to measure and minimize greenhouse gas emissions, and ultimately earn a return on climate-smart milk.

Elena Bruess covers the environment and climate for the Houston Landing. She has covered water, climate, environment and health issues throughout the Midwest and Texas, including as a Pulitzer Center reporting fellow. Her fellowship project explores landfill pollution, methane emissions, remediation and the historic and disproportionate impact landfills and trash incinerators have had on marginalized communities in Houston.

Nina Ignaczak is an award-winning journalist and editor based in Detroit, and the founder of Planet Detroit, a digital media startup producing public interest journalism on climate, equity, health, and the environment, centering grassroots voices and solutions. Her project project investigates how food waste and methane emissions in Metro Detroit contribute to Michigan’s climate challenges, and explores community-driven solutions to reduce emissions and build climate resilience.

Paul Ruffins was one of the first journalists to cover the complexities of environmentalism in Black communities and served as a delegate to the first People of Color Environmental Justice Summit. Since then, he has been the managing editor for several community newspapers and social justice organizations. His project investigates a pioneering experiment in food composting in Prince George’s County in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., illuminating how it works, whether it is delivering as promised, and how successes can be replicated regionally and nationally.

Jenny Splitter (moderator) is the Editor-in-Chief of Sentient, the only nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom dedicated to reporting on factory farms, and an award-winning food and climate journalist. Her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Popular Mechanics, New York Magazine, Vox and others.

 

About the MIT Climate Project

The MIT Climate Project is a new, whole-of-MIT initiative to respond to the multiple challenges of global climate change. Through this project MIT seeks to become, within a decade, one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions—solutions that will change the expected trajectory of global climate outcomes for the better. Learn more

Among the programs housed at the MIT Climate Project is the MIT Environmental Solutions Journalism Fellowship, which since 2021 has supported freelance or staff journalists associated with U.S. local and regional newsrooms in developing high-impact news projects that connect local perspectives, values and priorities with climate change science and solutions. By engaging Americans who are unsure, disengaged, or doubtful about the need to act on climate change, these reporting projects advance the frontiers of public opinion on climate as both the impacts and the solutions to climate change grow more visible in Americans’ daily lives. Learn more

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Reporting on Food, Waste and Climate in America

MITdesignX seeks diverse, interdisciplinary teams working on challenging ideas with clear vision, passion and drive to design solutions and launch a real venture.  Applications go through a rigorous selection process that reviews ideas based on human, environmental and social impact, feasibility, uniqueness, and scalability as well as team composition, diversity and skillset.

Up to 12 teams are selected for each cohort. Applicants can include graduate students, researchers, staff and faculty members from across MIT, as well as their colleagues from other institutions or industry.

Participants receive a 10K seed grant, 18 credits, workspace, and mentoring. Apply here now!

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MITdesignX 2025 Cohort Application

Bluetech ventures have substantial potential for impact. We believe that encouraging this type of innovation requires a dedicated and focused support infrastructure. The goal of the BlueSwell Incubator is to build the capacity of new founders to convert their big ocean-focused concepts into profitable and sustainable businesses by bridging a gap of funding and mentorship.

We are seeking bluetech founders that are at an early stage of their innovation journey, with a focus on those that have taken in little-to-no outside capital or are in the pre-seed stage. In the selection process, we will optimize for founders that have the highest likelihood to scale for broad impact.

The 20-week program also provides entrepreneurs with a stipend of $50k, along with business model workshops, mentorship, market access introductions, and the connections to prepare for pre-seed and seed investments. Apply today!

The priority deadline is May 3rd at 5:00pm ET. Eligible applications submitted by this date will have the opportunity to pitch live to a member of the selection committee.

The final deadline is May 31st at 5:00pm ET.