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The Department of Nuclear Science & Engineering provides educational opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students interested in advancing the frontiers of nuclear science and engineering and in developing applications of nuclear technology for the benefit of society and the environment. We prepare our students to make contributions to the scientific fundamentals of our field; to the development and engineering of nuclear systems for energy generation, security, health care, and other applications; and to the integration of nuclear systems into society and the natural environment.

Founded in 1861, MIT has a proud history of influencing the world through technological leadership and research innovation. MIT is one of the world’s preeminent research universities: renowned for rigorous academic programs in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship; cutting-edge research; a diverse campus community; and a longstanding commitment to working with the public and private sectors to bring new knowledge to bear on the world’s complex challenges.

One of the six founding courses of study at MIT, mechanical engineering embodies the motto "mens et manus" -- mind and hand. Disciplinary depth and breadth, together with hands-on discovery and physical realization, characterize our nationally and internationally recognized leadership in research, education, and innovation. MIT mechanical engineers have always stood at the forefront in tackling the engineering challenges of the day: inventing new technologies, spawning new fields of study, and educating the new generation of leaders in industry, government, and academia.

The MIT Edgerton Center continues the hands-on legacy of beloved Institute Professor Harold (Doc) Edgerton. At the Edgerton Center, we believe that students can learn to master complex challenges, discover their competencies, and find their inspiration through hands-on project-based learning. To that end, we support student teams in engineering competitions, offer classes, provide workshop space, and engage students in service projects in developing countries. We also advance kindergarten through 12th grade STEM education through our classes, intenstive summer programs, curricula development, and professional development workshops.

The MIT Edgerton Center continues the hands-on legacy of beloved Institute Professor Harold (Doc) Edgerton. At the Edgerton Center, we believe that students can learn to master complex challenges, discover their competencies, and find their inspiration through hands-on project-based learning. To that end, we support student teams in engineering competitions, offer classes, provide workshop space, and engage students in service projects in developing countries. We also advance kindergarten through 12th grade STEM education through our classes, intenstive summer programs, curricula development, and professional development workshops.

DMSE faculty and students study the ways in which atoms can be built into solid materials and how the structural arrangement of the atoms in a material governs its properties.

The campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is located on a 168acre tract in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. The campus spans approximately one mile (1.6 km) of the north side of the Charles River basin directly opposite the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.The campus includes dozens of buildings representing diverse architectural styles and shifting campus priorities over MIT's history. MIT's architectural history can be broadly split into four eras: the Boston campus, the new Cambridge campus before World War II, the "Cold War" development, and post-Cold War buildings. Each era was marked by distinct builds representing neoclassical, modernist, brutalist, and deconstructivist styles which alternatively represent a commitment to utilitarian minimalism and embellished exuberance.Campus organizationThe geographical organization of the MIT campus is much easier to understand by referring to the MIT map, in online interactive, or downloadable printable form. There is also an MIT Accessibility Campus Map available for download, which is useful for mobility-impaired visitors.Buildings 1–10 (excepting 9) were the original main campus, with Building 10, the location of the Great Dome, designed to be the ceremonial main entrance. The actual street entrance leads from 77 Massachusetts Avenue into the lobby of Building 7, at the western end of the "Infinite Corridor", which forms the east-west axis of the main group of buildings. Buildings 1–8 are arranged symmetrically around Building 10, with odd-numbered buildings to the west and even-numbered buildings to the east. In general, higher numbers are assigned to buildings as distance from the center of campus increases.

The MIT Linguistics Group has been engaged in the study of language since the 1950's, and admitted its first class of PhD students in 1961. Our research aims to discover the rules and representations underlying the structure of particular languages and what they reveal about the general principles that determine the form and development of language in the individual and the species. The program covers the traditional subfields of linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics) as well as interfaces with philosophy and logic, speech science and technology, computer science and artificial intelligence, and study of the brain and cognition.

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The Department of Chemistry at MIT is recognized as one of the top chemistry departments in the world. The Department has an illustrious history in sharing the MIT tradition of excellence, and has provided national leadership in chemical education and research. The Department's strong record of achievement is based on its pioneering advances in chemical research, its success in incorporating these advances into teaching and research programs, and its close relationship to government and industry. Many fundamental discoveries made in our Department have found their way into practical applications ranging from polymer synthesis to medical imaging.The Department presently has over 30 faculty members, all of whom participate in the graduate educational program and direct active research programs. There are currently about 100 undergraduate chemistry majors, nearly 250 graduate students, and about 100 post-doctoral associates and visiting fellows in the Department. In a recent year, the graduate population included students from 20 foreign countries and from more than 104 colleges and universities around the United States. Approximately 33% of our students are women. This representation of students from widely different backgrounds contributes to the enrichment of student life within the Department. In recent years, the Department has awarded from 25 to 45 doctoral degrees per year. The Department's program of teaching and research spans the breadth of chemistry. General areas covered include biological chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. Specialized areas such as environmental chemistry, materials chemistry and nanoscience are also covered. Some of the research activities of the Department are carried out in association with various interdisciplinary laboratories such as the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Lincoln Laboratory, the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, and the Whitehead Institute. These interdepartmental research laboratories provide stimulating interaction among the research programs at several MIT departments and give students the opportunity to become familiar with research work in disciplines other than chemistry. There are also opportunities for research in cooperation with other Departments such as Biology, Chemical Engineering, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Physics. A special training program in cancer research is administered with in the department, and many of our students are members of other training programs such as the biotech training program and the Merck Fellowship. This spectrum of research activity, combined with a variety of challenging graduate subjects and an extensive seminar program, provide our graduate students with the foundation needed for a meaningful professional career and a lifetime of independent learning. It is this combination which makes the MIT graduate in chemistry capable of adapting both to the changing demands of his or her profession and to the career opportunities encountered.

The real-time city is now real! The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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The department is home to approximately 180 undergraduates, 200 graduate students, 100+ postdoctoral researchers, and more than 70 world-renowned faculty, including: 4 Nobel laureates 29 members of the National Academy of Sciences 14 Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) investigators

The Department of Biological Engineering was founded in 1998 as a new MIT academic unit, with the mission of defining and establishing a new discipline fusing molecular life sciences with engineering. The goal of this biological engineering discipline is to advance fundamental understanding of how biological systems operate and to develop effective biology-based technologies for applications across a wide spectrum of societal needs including breakthroughs in diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, in design of novel materials, devices, and processes, and in enhancing environmental health. Our departmental epigram is 'Creating Biological Technologies, from Discovery to Design', designating our intertwined emphases on advances in basic bioscience and in applied biotechnology. The innovative educational programs created by BE reflect this emphasis on integrating molecular and cellular biosciences with a quantitative, systems-oriented engineering analysis and synthesis approach, offering opportunities at the undergraduate level for the SB in Biological Engineering and at the graduate level for the PhD in either Applied Biosciences or Bioengineering. BE also partners with the departments of Biology and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science to jointly offer a PhD in Computational & Systems Biology, and with the departments of Biology and Civil & Environmental Engineering to jointly offer a PhD in Microbiology. Research opportunities for BE undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral associates abound across an exciting landscape of interdisciplinary laboratories, centers, and initiatives, including the Center for Biomedical Engineering, the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, the Center for Emergent Behavior of Integrative Cellular Systems, the Center for Gynepathology Research, the Synthetic Biology Center, and the Division of Comparative Medicine. Graduate students in the BE PhD programs can participate in the NIGMS Biotechnology Training Program, the NIEHS Toxicology Training Program, and the NIBIB Biomechanics Training Program. More than one-third of the MIT BE faculty hold membership in one or more of the major US academies, including 6 in the National Academy of Engineering, 5 in the National Academy of Science, 7 in the Institute of Medicine, and 6 in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. BE is one of four bioengineering programs (along with UCSD, Berkeley/UCSF, and Caltech) assigned #1 rankings in the current National Research Council report, and ranks #1 among bioengineering departments in citations per publication in a recent Academic Analytics study. Numerous biotechnology companies have been generated by BE faculty and students, in the Cambridge/Boston area and further nationwide.

The MPC's philosophy focuses on an understanding of processing fundamentals to control internal structure, from the nanoscale to the macroscale, thereby optimizing a material's properties and performance. Center research covers a broad range of materials and processes via a number of common themes. Foremost among these is the control of materials structure, properties, and performance in an ecologically and economically sound manner.

The MIT Tata Center for Technology and Design is training a new breed of engineers and entrepreneurs to develop solutions for resource-constrained communities globally, with an initial focus on serving human needs in India. Guided by the core principle of relevance to global societal challenges, MIT Tata Center projects place an emphasis on affordability, practicality, and performance in six overlapping thematic areas: Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Health, Urbanization, and Water. Tata Center projects are being developed in the context of India, with potential application throughout the developing world. Working in cooperation with government agencies, corporations, universities, and NGOs, the projects address a wide range of concerns, seeking low-cost, sustainable solutions in both urban and rural settings. Tata Center-affiliated Faculty and Fellows are inventing new products and technologies, designing systems, and conducting policy studies that will directly impact the lives of people in India and other developing countries, while also creating business and investment opportunities for our collaborators.

The Climate Change Conversation at MIT aims to explore and assess the broad range of actions that MIT could take to make a significant positive contribution to confront climate change. The global nature and complexity of this problem are uniquely suited for MIT’s strong problem-solving ethos. A leading technical university has unique roles that it can play in responding to the climate challenge. Identifying and evaluating these roles is the purpose of the Conversation. The MIT Climate Change Conversation Committee is supported by Vice President of Research Maria Zuber and staffed by the Office of Sustainability at MIT. For more information about sustainability at MIT visit: sustainability.mit.edu

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The Department of Chemistry at MIT is recognized as one of the top chemistry departments in the world. The Department has an illustrious history in sharing the MIT tradition of excellence, and has provided national leadership in chemical education and research. The Department's strong record of achievement is based on its pioneering advances in chemical research, its success in incorporating these advances into teaching and research programs, and its close relationship to government and industry. Many fundamental discoveries made in our Department have found their way into practical applications ranging from polymer synthesis to medical imaging.The Department presently has over 30 faculty members, all of whom participate in the graduate educational program and direct active research programs. There are currently about 100 undergraduate chemistry majors, nearly 250 graduate students, and about 100 post-doctoral associates and visiting fellows in the Department. In a recent year, the graduate population included students from 20 foreign countries and from more than 104 colleges and universities around the United States. Approximately 33% of our students are women. This representation of students from widely different backgrounds contributes to the enrichment of student life within the Department. In recent years, the Department has awarded from 25 to 45 doctoral degrees per year. The Department's program of teaching and research spans the breadth of chemistry. General areas covered include biological chemistry, inorganic chemistry, organic chemistry, and physical chemistry. Specialized areas such as environmental chemistry, materials chemistry and nanoscience are also covered. Some of the research activities of the Department are carried out in association with various interdisciplinary laboratories such as the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, the Center for Materials Science and Engineering, the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Lincoln Laboratory, the GR Harrison Spectroscopy Laboratory, and the Whitehead Institute. These interdepartmental research laboratories provide stimulating interaction among the research programs at several MIT departments and give students the opportunity to become familiar with research work in disciplines other than chemistry. There are also opportunities for research in cooperation with other Departments such as Biology, Chemical Engineering, Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and Physics. A special training program in cancer research is administered with in the department, and many of our students are members of other training programs such as the biotech training program and the Merck Fellowship. This spectrum of research activity, combined with a variety of challenging graduate subjects and an extensive seminar program, provide our graduate students with the foundation needed for a meaningful professional career and a lifetime of independent learning. It is this combination which makes the MIT graduate in chemistry capable of adapting both to the changing demands of his or her profession and to the career opportunities encountered.

The Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was the first of the Institute’s great modern interdepartmental academic research centers. Today, we are one of MIT's largest such organizations, and the most diverse research laboratory at MIT in our scope of intellectual interests.

Formally launched in 2014 as a new track alongside the MIT System Design and Management (SDM) program, Integrated Design & Management (IDM) integrates industrial design, engineering design, and other design disciplines with management. Offered jointly by the MIT School of Engineering and Sloan School of Management, IDM caters to early to mid-career professionals and will be taught in an innovative design studio format. Graduates will be awarded a master of science degree in engineering and management. Potential students, industry partners, and donors can learn more about IDM by contacting us at [email protected].

MIT Professional Education delivers timely, relevant programs to a global audience of scientists, engineers, technicians, managers, consultants, and others from industry, government, the military, non-profit, and academia. The MIT Professional Education mission is to provide a gateway to renowned MIT research, knowledge and expertise for those engaged in science and technology worldwide, through advanced education programs designed for working professionals. The programs are delivered by MIT faculty and promote technical excellence through ongoing educational engagement with communities of practice.

Besides regularly publishing the ongoing MIT dissertations in Linguistics, MIT Working Papers in Linguistics is the official publisher of : + MIT Working Papers in Linguistics - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung - Proceedings of FAJL - Proceedings of FAMLi - Proceedings of IATL - Proceedings of MOSS - Proceedings of WAFL - Proceedings of AFLA - Proceedings of HUMIT - Proceedings of SCIL + MIT Working Papers on Endangered and Less Familiar Languages + University of Connecticut Working Papers in Linguistics + University of Connecticut Dissertations in Linguistics + University of Rochester Working Papers in the Language Sciences + University of Siena CISCL Working Papers + Tulane University Working Papers + Lexicon Project Working Papers If your department would like to outsource its working paper publications to MITWPL, please contact the management.

The MIT School of Engineering currently offers four free-of-charge enrichment programs through the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs (OEOP) at critical junctures in the pre-college academic pipeline. These programs are aimed at generating interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Our primary mission is to diversify the science and engineering community by serving students from underrepresented and underserved backgrounds and empowering these students to develop the skills and confidence needed to pursue careers in technical fields. We provide participants with an engaging, hands-on curriculum that strengthens their foundational math, science and technological skills; a challenging learning environment with high expectations; and access to positive role models. With exposure to compelling content and the world-class resources at MIT, we are preparing students for careers in the technical fields.

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The Tye lab employs a multi-disciplinary approach including optogenetic, in vivo and ex vivo electrophysiological, pharmacological and imaging techniques to find mechanistic explanations for how emotional and motivational states influence behavior, in health and disease. Behaviors are motivated by two emotional valences: Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. The ability to select appropriate behavioral responses to environmental stimuli, such as avoiding a predator or approaching a food source, is critical for survival. Although most animals are capable of learning to assign either positive or negative associations to environmental cues, we are only beginning to understand the underlying neural circuits and the plasticity that mediates the formation, revision or extinction of an associative memory. - How are emotional or motivational associations assigned to environmental cues? - Where do the circuits processing associative information diverge to differentially encode positive and negative valence? When there are perturbations in the neural circuits mediating reward processing, fear, motivation, memory or inhibitory control, we may observe a number of disease states such as substance abuse, attention-deficit disorder, anxiety and depression. These are among the most prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders, and show a high rate of co-morbidity with each other, as patients diagnosed with anxiety or mood disorders are approximately twice as likely to develop a substance abuse disorder. - Do perturbations in common neural circuits processing motivation, memory or affective valence underlie this high-rate of co-morbidity? - Can emotional states such as increased anxiety alter a given experience and increase the propensity for substance abuse by facilitating long-term changes associated with reward-related learning? If so, what is the mechanism? In addition to scientific excellence and integrity, top values of the Tye Laboratory include mentorship, collaboration, innovation and above all, a positive mental attitude.

MIT's Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) is the most concentrated, science-based graduate degree in real estate available. Launched in 1983 by the MIT Center for Real Estate, the MSRED is the first one-year degree of its kind, fulfilling a need for specialized education beyond the scope of the traditional MBA. The MSRED prepares men and women to compete in the global market with superior qualifications — providing the research-based expertise necessary to solve complex problems in contemporary real estate.

Vision The structures built by the real estate industry comprise over a third of the world's tangible wealth, and are responsible for over a third of the world's energy consumption and CO2 emissions. For the industry to maintain its responsible leadership in the global community, it must encourage a culture of sustainability and innovation that meets the challenges of an increasingly interconnected world. MIT is uniquely positioned to help the industry increase its efficiency, prosperity, and social responsibility. Through research and education initiatives at the MIT Center for Real Estate, MIT applies its tradition of excellence in technology, knowledge transfer, and global reach to the real estate industry, developing innovations to help practitioners build responsibly and profitably. Our goal is to educate the next generations of industry leaders, preparing them with tools to develop better real estate worldwide. In keeping with the MIT tradition, we bring to industry the very best offered by practical experience coupled with the interdisciplinary studies of design, science, and engineering. We offer: * A specialized, globally recognized, one-year Master of Science in Real Estate Development (MSRED) program that emphasizes the creation, operation, and management of the physical product of real estate. * A unique, interdisciplinary research platform that links academia with industry to meet the need for more informed decision-making based on practical knowledge. * A network of global outreach that links the real estate industry with Center graduates and MIT to develop and support the industry's long-term growth. Envisioning the industry's integrated stewardship of its land and products, the MIT Center for Real Estate provides tomorrow's practitioners with the means to transform an ever more vital and complex market.