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MIT welcomes nine MLK Scholars for 2024-25

Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars enhance community through engagement with MIT students and faculty.

An expansive approach to making new compounds

Associate Professor Robert Gilliard and his team deploy strategies from both organic and inorganic chemistry.

Advancing Natural Climate and Community Solutions at COP28

MLK Visiting Scholar Angélica María Mayolo Obregón presents at the climate conference.

Everything, everywhere all at once

Cosmologist and MLK Scholar Morgane König uses gravitational waves to study the universe’s origins, inflation, and present trajectory.

Louis Massiah: W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices

Step into history when you join us for a viewing of “W.E.B. Du Bois – A Biography in Four Voices,” a film helmed by Louis Massiah.

Spoken-word collaboration shows off the MIT community’s musical talents

MLK Visiting Scholar Lupe Fiasco provides a textual intro to the MITverses album.

Jean-Luc Pierite- “Planning in the Native Slipstream: Urban Indigenous Futurisms and Alternative Presents”

MLK Scholar Presentation: “Documentary and the Power of Knowledge Sharing” with Louis J. Massiah

Join documentary filmmaker and educator Louis Massiah for a talk on the possibilities of documentary as a tool for community cultural work.

MIT welcomes nine MLK Visiting Professors and Scholars for 2023-24

Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professors and Scholars will enhance and enrich the MIT community through engagement with students and faculty.