MIT-Mexico Program

For two decades, MIT-Mexico has funded student internships and teaching, as well as faculty research collaborations.

“The World at MIT” videos underscore MIT’s distinctive nature as a community that is at once profoundly American and deeply connected to the world. Paulo Lozano became fascinated with studying the cosmos as a child watching the changing night sky outside his home in Mexico, learning about NASA, and visiting a Mexico City planetarium with his parents. He now directs MIT’s Space Propulsion Lab and is the MIT-Mexico Program Faculty Director.

Collaboration with Universidad Panamericana provided Biology student Anan Quan with the opportunity to conduct critical research while exploring a future career in medicine during her MISTI internship in Mexico.

"My story is quintessentially American but in the broadest sense. The US as we know it would not exist without the history of migration from countries across Latin America, and countries throughout the region have also been shaped by their diasporic populations."

"I am Mexican-American. I was raised in Northeast LA (NELA represent) in a majority Latinx neighborhood. Until MIT, I had never been to a school that wasn’t at least 60% Latinx. I spent most of my summers in Mexico City. I only speak Spanish with my mom and I consider myself a native speaker.

But here was this French painter, who told me they had only been in Mexico for three years, who sounded more Mexican than me. I am not insecure about my Mexicaness. Right?"

"In Mexico, people don’t shy away from physical contact. Both men and women pull you in for an embrace or a kiss on the cheek, respectively. It is the hugs with my own gender that make me the most lonely because I always wonder what it’d be like to hold on for just a second longer or what it’d be like for people to understand me. It’s hard."