MIT Admissions will no longer participate in Schoolhouse Dialogues pilot project
MIT Admissions will no longer be a Schoolhouse Dialogues university partner, and applications for the 2025-2026 cycle will not be able to include the Dialogues portfolio as an optional supplement.
Continued sunshine and warmth
As the start of the semester draws near, we have reached peak summer weather in Boston.
Rank and File Caucus proposes amendment to MIT Graduate Student Union constitution
In April 2025, the Rank and File Caucus launched a petition calling for an amendment to the MIT Graduate Student Union (GSU) constitution that requires all external partisan political collaborations to receive general membership approval.
The Institute launches Understanding MIT advertising campaign in Washington’s metro stations
In late June, students reported seeing about 15 Understanding MIT ads in the Capitol South metro station in Washington D.C. near the U.S. Capitol.
The Big Beautiful Bill raises MIT’s endowment tax rate from 1.4% to 8%
On July 3, Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill, a spending and tax bill that will raise MIT’s endowment tax rate from 1.4% to 8%.
Meet Alex Shalek, Director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science
For Shalek, institutes like IMES are all about creating cohesive units “greater than the sum of their parts.”
