We write to invite proposals for the second round of the Institute Research Continuity and Transition Fund. Established in June 2026 to provide temporary financial support this fiscal year (FY27), the ...

To the members of the MIT community, MIT's mission is to address the world’s most pressing challenges, and MIT staff are essential to meeting this mission. The Institute’s more than 17,000 employees ...

Below my signature, you’ll find a letter from Provost Anantha Chandrakasan, Chancellor Melissa Nobles, and Chair of the Faculty Roger Levy. In January, they charged the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in ...

To the members of the MIT community, Following the Goodwin Procter report on MIT’s interactions with Jeffrey Epstein, President Reif asked that I create a process to review its findings about ...

Dear members of the MIT community, I write to bring you up to date on developments in two areas where recent government actions are interfering with the normal functioning of MIT, diminishing our ...

Dear members of the MIT community, I write to describe the potential impact of a recent announcement by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and to share the actions we’re taking in response. As ...

Dear members of the MIT community, especially those who come to us from abroad, I write to you in profound disbelief. The action the federal government took today to bar Harvard from having ...

Over the past few months, we have been modeling a variety of financial impacts that could result from changes at the federal level. Given the uncertain outlook for federal funding and policy, we are ...

Dear members of the MIT community, The U.S. Department of Education recently sent MIT and eight other institutions a proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education," along with a letter ...

Dear members of the MIT community, We write to announce the formation and launch of the Ad Hoc Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training. Professors Eric Klopfer and Samuel ...

We write today to share the outputs of the Working Group on Scholarly Content and Generative AI, which was co-chaired by Chris Bourg, MIT Libraries Director, and Claire Schneider, Counsel in the ...

Dear members of the MIT community, With great sadness, I write to share the tragic news that Professor Nuno Loureiro, director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), died early this morning ...