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Area Directors support students and the House Teams
In August, the Division of Student Life (DSL) and Residential Life and Dining welcomed five new staff members who serve in the newly created Area Director (AD) position. After a two-day interview...
View ArticleCelebrating 10 years of Simmons Hall
In memory of 10 years of history, camaraderie and creativity, the Simmons Hall community invited residents, staff and alumni to partake in a three-day celebration. The event-packed anniversary weekend...
View ArticleA fond farewell to departing housemasters
Dean for Student Life Chris Colombo announced that next June, Sidney-Pacific and Ashdown House, two of MIT's graduate communities, will say farewell to their long-time Housemasters, Roger and Dottie...
View ArticleAre we purging the poorest?
In cities across America over the last two decades, high-rise public-housing projects, riddled with crime and poverty, have been torn down. In their places, developers have constructed lower-rise,...
View ArticleBexley to close at end of semester for up to three years due to structural...
At a meeting of Bexley Hall residents this evening, Dean for Student Life Costantino Colombo and representatives of MIT Housing and the Department of Facilities discussed the results of engineering...
View ArticleThe new challenges for urban planners
In a talk at MIT on Tuesday, Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan called for a new wave of creative urban planning to help cities evolve during a time of economic hardship. “The...
View ArticleWalter Torous tapped as senior lecturer
Walter Torous, one of the nation’s top scholars in real estate finance, has been appointed to a five-year term as a senior lecturer in the MIT Center for Real Estate, a joint appointment with the MIT...
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An entrepreneur aims to work in Africa
On the long, bumpy drive to her grandmother’s house in Accra, Ghana, seven-year-old Sarah Dimson began to notice some stark disparities between her home in Norman, Okla., and the country of her...
View ArticleRecommendation made to demolish Bexley Hall
At a meeting today of an advisory group established to advise the MIT administration on Bexley Hall, a recommendation was made by the Department of Facilities in conjunction with the Division of...
View ArticleLetter regarding draft report on graduate student housing
The following email was sent today to the MIT faculty by Provost Martin Schmidt. A similar letter was subsequently sent to the graduate student community by Christine Ortiz, dean for graduate...
View ArticleLetter regarding the final report on graduate student housing
The following email was sent today to the MIT faculty and graduate students by Provost Martin Schmidt. To Members of the Faculty and MIT Graduate Students: I am writing to share the final report of...
View ArticleRethinking architecture
Mark Goulthorpe is an architect, writer, and teacher. In each role, his goal is the same: to seek models of thought that might yield new approaches to designing and constructing buildings. In the...
View ArticleSoft design for a sustainable world
“Around the world at unprecedented rates, people are moving from the country to the city,” says Sheila Kennedy, professor of the practice at MIT’s Department of Architecture. “But this rapid...
View ArticleAt the intersection of real estate and urban economics
Albert Saiz uses big data to understand real estate dynamics. As a professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning and director of MIT’s Center for Real Estate, his work is at the confluence...
View ArticlePark to be constructed at Bexley site
During its many years of occupancy, Bexley Hall added a splash of color to the narrative of MIT dormitories. One of the first dorms to become coed, and one of the first to allow cats, Bexley also...
View Article3Q: Karen Gleason on the iconic Metropolitan Storage Warehouse
MIT is advancing a proposal to create a new hub for undergraduate residential life that would include housing, dining, maker space, common and study space, and street-level public retail. The proposed...
View ArticleEastgate, Warehouse graduate communities seek new heads of house
In 1933, Avery Allen Ashdown PhD ’24 was named the first housemaster in MIT’s residential system. He took up residence in a complex of buildings dubbed Graduate House (later renamed Senior House), and...
View Article3 Questions: How urbanization and revolutionary innovation are shaping global...
Around the world, more and more people are moving to cities. The increase in urbanization is paralleled by revolutionary advances in digital technology, innovation in the built environment, and new...
View Article3Q: Siqi Zheng on air quality and urban development in China
MIT Professor Siqi Zheng is the Samuel Tak Lee Associate Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship within MIT's Department of Urban Studies and Planning and Center for Real Estate. She...
View ArticleArt and dirt: Bringing the Cambridge and MIT communities together
About 200 people joined in a lively ceremony in Kendall Square, Cambridge to break ground for the Institute’s new graduate student residence hall and to take a first look at the Community Art Center’s...
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