Via @mitalumna on Instagram: “It took me a while to learn this lesson at MIT, but don’t be afraid to fail - like, really fail and do something horribly wrong. There’s a lot of growth in doing something wrong and MIT is the best place to learn that about yourself,” says Nirupama Yechoor.

Students in MIT Sloan course 15.336 learn that being an effective leader requires a deep understanding of what it means to be human in a complex world. “Leading others requires knowing yourself first,” says Nelson Repenning.

Riccardo Comin says the best part of his job is when his students come into his office to tell him they have new, interesting data: “It’s that moment of discovery, that moment of awe, of revelation of something that’s outside of anything you know. That’s what makes it all worthwhile.”

Via @mithaystackobservatory on Instagram: “Science is beautiful: check out the #aurora at Haystack! We'll have more to share about the science behind this incredible atmospheric phenomenon this week, and why it's been happening so often recently”

Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in economic sciences. The two MIT professors share in the prize “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

A new method precisely controls the color and texture of 3D-printed objects made of a single material. Just as desktop printers use one set of inks to generate a range of shades, “we want to be able to do the same thing with a 3D printer,” Mustafa Doğa Doğan says.