What can we do at MIT to prepare our students to solve the challenges of their time? Every learner at MIT can impact the future of humankind and the planet—calling on us to embrace new approaches to an MIT education.

At the 2025 Festival of Learning, hear from MIT faculty, instructors, and recent students about what mens et manus looks like in the future of teaching and learning at MIT. Join a facilitated session to improve teaching and learning at the Institute. 

Join the MIT PKG Public Service Center and the MIT Women's League us as we wrap up IAP with a screening of Little Women (2019) where we keep the lights up and bring our crafting projects to work while we watch! Professor Heather Paxson will introduce our screening with remarks on women's crafting and work through history.

This event is free and open to the MIT Community. Please register to attend.

Popcorn will be provided!

Please join MIT Anthropology Professor Sonya Atalay (CBIKS founder & director) for the first Indigenous Sciences Speaker Series speaker of 2025.

This talk shares insights from a collaborative field school bringing together students and Tribal members from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and their Land Trust. Informed by cultural perspectives and priorities, participants learned archaeological field methods developed by the Tribe and archaeologists over the last decade to study and preserve Indigenous cultural heritage.

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