Special Initiatives
“MIT is a community of brilliant individuals with boundless ideas and entrepreneurial spirit. Cultivating these individual strengths is essential — but I want to find ways to harness our collective power too. I believe there are many significant areas where, as a creative community, the people of MIT can do more together if the Institute actively fosters and supports new collaborations on compelling global problems.”
—President Sally Kornbluth
Life Sciences and Health Collaborative
MIT's Life Sciences and Health Collaborative supports the convergence of world-class expertise across MIT and creates connections with industry leaders in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and hospitals—to catalyze discovery, innovation, and impact for human health.
On December 4, 2024, all of MIT will gather to launch this exciting initiative, celebrating the rich history and promising future of life sciences and health research.
On December 4, 2024, all of MIT will gather to launch this exciting initiative, celebrating the rich history and promising future of life sciences and health research.
The Climate Project at MIT
President Kornbluth has called on the MIT community to mount a “bold, tenacious response” to the global threat posed by climate change. The Climate Project responds to this call. The goal is for MIT to become, within a decade, one of the world’s most prolific and collaborative sources of technological, behavioral, and policy solutions for the global climate challenge.
The MIT Human Insight Collaborative
The MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC) connects scholars in the human-centered disciplines with colleagues across the Institute to unite in solving today’s problems, educating tomorrow’s leaders, and expanding humanity’s horizons.