For J-WEL, a year of transforming education

The Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab connects MIT and the world via collaboratives focused on pK-12, higher education, and workplace learning. ...

3Q: Hazel Sive on MIT-Africa

Faculty director discusses the future of the initiative and Africa’s position as a global priority for the Institute. http://news.mit.edu/2018/3q-hazel-sive-mit-africa-0508

Imperial College London and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have announced the ...

The funded projects will bring scientists together from Imperial, MIT and partner institutions in Africa, to work on infectious disease, high energy physics and eco-friendly refrigerants. ...

MIT chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society inducts 76 students from the Class of 2019

The new members of Xi of Massachusetts, the MIT chapter of PBK, combine the best of humanities, natural science, and social science scholarship. ...

WACCI-MIT holds five-week Global Startup Labs Entrepreneurship competition

The Enterprise Hub at the West Africa Centre for Crop Improvement (WACCI), University of Ghana, has intensified its efforts to drive innovations and new product development for agricultural ...

Sierra Leone’s higher educational faculty benefits from MIT learning workshop

The MIT-Sierra Leone Program has organized its first learning workshop for educators in Sierra Leone. The seminar at Njala University was a three-day (August 5-7th, 2019) short course on ...

CUT partners with the acclaimed MIT

In July  2019, CUT hosted Prof Hazel Sive of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who led a workshop on Educating with Problem-Solving Approaches under the auspices of MIT-Africa ...

Mehrdad Jazayeri and Hazel Sive awarded 2019 School of Science teaching prizes

Nominated by peers and students, professors in brain and cognitive sciences and biology are recognized for excellence in graduate and undergraduate education. ...

Justin Chen, graduate student in Hazel Sive’s lab at Whitehead Institute, writes about his ...

Face Time Justin Chen | MIT School of Science January 2017 As a developmental biologist, I study how a single cell becomes a complete animal — how nature makes something from almost nothing. The ...

The teacher becomes the student

The teacher becomes the student Sarah McDonnell | MIT News Office September 2, 2016 As it does every year, MIT stayed active throughout the summer months, welcoming tourists snapping shots of the ...

PBS’s NOVA produces video of Sive lab research

WGBH-TV, producer of the acclaimed public television program NOVA, has released a video featuring Whitehead’s Hazel Sive and lab members discussing their recent work on mouth formation in ...

Jaw-dropping research explains mouth formation during embryonic development

This claymation model shows how the Xenopus frog’s pre-mouth begins as a square, eight cells wide and high, and morphs into a two-cell wide by twenty tall column. As the larvae prepares to ...