MIT

MIT’s stated mission is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world. Based in Cambridge, the Institute pairs undergraduate and graduate teaching with research across fields such as human health, energy innovation, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing and robotics. Recent work includes a planning system that keeps a robot’s flight path clear for search-and-rescue missions and a noninvasive way to identify aging cells in tissue.

Classroom projects sometimes grow into companies. Encora Therapeutics began as a project in 2.009, MIT’s iconic product-design class, to help people with Parkinson’s disease, and nine years later the FDA cleared its device to help adults with essential tremor. The MIT for America initiative ranges across STEM fields and will engage students from kindergarten through community college. Student profiles highlight people like Braedon Rudolph ’26, who double majored in physics and economics before commissioning as a Marine officer.

What to Know

• MIT is a private research university founded in 1861, located along the Charles River in Cambridge.
• Its campus borders East Cambridge and the Kendall Square innovation district.
• MIT has published a fact sheet on steps its leaders have taken to support its Jewish community.
• The Institute is a member of the East Cambridge Business Association.