Using plants to purify canal water
Just south of Rome lie the Pontine Marshes, a vexed part of the Italian countryside. In ancient times, Roman emperors tried unsuccessfully to drain the marshes, something only achieved in the 1930s...
View ArticleRethinking the fall of Rome’s republic
When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon — a river in northern Italy — in 49 B.C., leading what was effectively his own personal army, he triggered a set of changes that resonated through the ancient...
View ArticleMind and hand: A fencer takes on MIT Sloan’s MSMS Program
At the age of 18, Valentina Rizzati MSMS ’13 had to choose between fencing and economics.An accomplished fencer from Ferrara, Italy, Rizzati won regional and inter-regional competitions and placed...
View ArticleRadical Innovation course resonates with Italian industry professionals
MIT Professional Education offered "Radical Innovation" — a short course by Sanjay Sarma, the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering — to industry professionals...
View ArticleStephanie Frampton awarded the Rome Prize
MIT Assistant Professor of Literature Stephanie Ann Frampton has been awarded the prestigious Rome Prize for ancient studies by the American Academy in Rome. The Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome...
View ArticleSerenella Sferza honored with SHASS Infinite Mile Award
Serenella Sferza, co-director of the MIT-Italy Program and founder of the MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives Global Teaching Labs (MISTI GTL), was honored with an MIT School of...
View ArticleSignificant foundation grant extends two-way partnership with Italy through 2020
MIT President L. Rafael Reif and Gianfelice Rocca, chair of the Fondazione Fratelli Agostino ed Enrico Rocca, signed an agreement today renewing the Progetto Roberto Rocca, a two-way partnership...
View ArticleA robust presence for MIT at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale
Architects, artists, and designers from the MIT community will constitute a robust presence at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.With eight full-time and visiting faculty, four alumni, and numerous...
View ArticleMIT at the Venice Biennale
At the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, opening Saturday, architects and designers have responded to a charge to “report from the front” on major challenges and issues facing humanity around the...
View ArticleSaving Venice, MIT-style
This summer, MIT professors Paola Malanotte Rizzoli of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) and Andrew Whittle of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering...
View ArticleMIT returns to the Venice Architecture Biennale
MIT faculty, students, and alumni will make significant contributions as exhibitors and curators at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Considered one of the foremost global forums for architecture...
View ArticleMIT alumni curate pavilions at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale
Four years ago, a team of graduate students at MIT’s School of Architecture and Planning helped curator and associate professor of architecture Ana Miljacki research, plan, and mount the United States’...
View ArticleA unique partnership continues to thrive
Last year’s 24th annual European Career Fair (ECF) at MIT, held in early 2020 before the pandemic shuttered campus, was a resounding success, with over 2,000 in-person attendees meeting with over 100...
View ArticleAn ocean apart, shared engineering projects catalyze a love of STEM
A pendulum wave is a series of weights, each suspended by a string a little longer than the last. The weights swing in a wave, like a snake slithering through grass. It’s a work of kinetic art and a...
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