Highlights & Initiatives

Projects, initiatives and news.

The pavilion offers tech dinghies with their distinctive red MIT sails
Campus Buildings + Architecture (MIT News)

There’s something for everyone at the “front porch of campus”

The MIT Sailing Pavilion, the oldest collegiate organization of its kind, offers community members a chance to sail for free — or just ...
A panel at the 2023 Sustainability Connect event featured Director of Sustainability Julie Newman (left)
Campus Buildings + Architecture (MIT News)

Celebrating a decade of a more sustainable MIT, with a focus on the...

The MIT Office of Sustainability gathers students, staff, faculty, and researchers for annual Sustainability Connect.
The new “MIT Illuminations” installation
Campus Buildings + Architecture (MIT News)

“MIT Illuminations,” a colorful installation and introduction t...

Located in the new MIT Welcome Center in Building E38, the installation expresses the dynamic, vibrant culture of MIT through the medium ...
Steve Marsh
Campus Buildings + Architecture (MIT News)

The lasting legacy of MITIMCo’s Steve Marsh

In his 23 years of managing MIT’s investment real estate activities, Marsh has transformed Kendall Square.
New tools installed at MIT.nano include (clockwise from left) the Hitachi HF5000 environmental transmission electron microscope
Campus Buildings + Architecture (MIT News)

MIT.nano adds new instruments to create and analyze at the nanoscale

New tools can accommodate samples from small pieces up to 200 mm wafers.
Valerie Jarrett (left)
Campus Buildings + Architecture (MIT News)

A diploma, a discovery, and an historic legacy

The restored diploma of Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT’s first Black graduate — presented by his great-granddaughter Valerie Jarrett —...