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Police probe possible link between MIT professor's killing and Brown University shooting - report

According to AP, the FBI had previously said it knew of no links between the cases.

Students stand in front of the Van Wickle Gates after placing flowers, following a shooting at Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, US December 14, 2025.
Nuno Loureiro

Israel examining possibility Iran involved in murder of nuclear scientist in US - report

People passing through MIT's campus stop to take pictures of a replica of the Wright Brothers Flyer which was placed on top of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Great Dome by unknown pranksters, December 17, 2003 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MIT nuclear scientist Nuno Loureiro killed inside Brookline home

Noam Chomsky

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From silk to silence: MIT unveils lightweight fabric that can tackle noise pollution

US researchers engineered a fabric as thin as a human hair to create a lightweight, compact, and efficient way to reduce noise transmission.

 Different color fabrics.

Police dismantles pro-Palestine encampments and arrests dozens at Penn and MIT

MIT and Penn experienced crackdowns on pro-Palestinian protests, sparking debates on campus safety and free speech, amid escalating tensions over Gaza across US universities.

 UNIVERSITY OF Pennsylvania campus.

Harvard, MIT: Among the worst for Jewish students, face highest antisemitism rates

The Report Card is part of ADL’s recently launched Not On My Campus campaign, calling on US colleges and universities to commit to no tolerance for antisemitism.

 A PROTESTER waves a Palestinian flag during a rally at Columbia University in New York, in November.

Israeli-born celebrity professor Neri Oxman accused of plagiarism

The Israeli-born Neri Oxman, a tenured professor at MIT and a celebrity in the academic world, was reported to have plagiarized content in her academic writing, Business Insider reported on Saturday.

Neri Oxman

Austrian university severs ties with Harvard over antisemitism concerns

Presidents from MIT, Harvard, and UPenn testified following a Department of Education investigation into rising antisemitic incidents since the Hamas terror attack on Israel.

Buildings in Harvard Yard are reflected in frozen puddle at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 20, 2015.

MIT joins Harvard and Penn on list of schools facing federal civil rights investigations

None of the schools that responded to requests for comment would say whether their investigations were related to antisemitism.

 MIT STUDENTS were among the first to cheer the Hamas pogrom, says the writer.

US universities are teaching their students to be antisemitic - opinion

Like many interactions during the hearing, the vast distance between non-campus and campus, between “town and gown,” was clear. Ideological diversity is simply not a campus value.

 US REPRESENTATIVE Elise Stefanik (R-NY) speaks during a House Education and Workforce Committee hearing titled ‘Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,’ on December 5

Jewish groups confront new questions: What counts as calling for genocide?

Swift and widespread outrage followed the hearing, leading to the resignation of Penn’s president and placing pressure on the other two leaders.

 PROF. DARIA Mochly-Rosen of California’s Stanford University.

The struggle for justice for Jewish students on college campuses - opinion

When it comes to protecting marginalized students on campus, it seems some groups are "more equal than others," the author writes.

 A US HOUSE and Workforce Committee hearing, ‘Holding Campus Leaders Accountable and Confronting Antisemitism,’ takes place this past week.

MIT partially suspends students who occupied building for pro-Palestinian ‘die-in’

The protest was loud, disruptive, and in defiance of university guidelines, wrote MIT President Sally Kornbluth.

 The sign at Building 76 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, November 21, 2018