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MIT-Russia alumna receives a Fulbright grant to explore the politics of architecture in Russia

MIT-Russia alumna receives a Fulbright grant to explore the politics of architecture in Russia

Christianna Bonin, a Ph.D. candidate in the MIT Department of Architecture and a MISTI Russia alumna, has been awarded a

Universal Language of Science and Technology Helps MIT Students in Russia

Universal Language of Science and Technology Helps MIT Students in Russia

Global Teaching Labs During IAP 2015, the MIT-Russia program participated for the first time in MISTI’s Global Teaching

KAREN DEMONSTRATING A CHEMICAL REACTION IN HER KITCHEN CHEMISTRY CLASS WITH RUSSIAN STUDENTS.

Sophomore in Bio/Chem taught Kitchen Chemistry to Russian students

Karen's host school was SESC of the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia. “This mostly involved learning

VISHNU AND HIS FRIENDS HAVE DINNER IN ALMATY.

Urban Studies and Planning graduate student examines housing strategies in Kazakhstan

Transformation in the post-Soviet housing market Vishnu Prasad, a graduate student in the Urban Studies and Planning

EYTAN LEVI '21 (LEFT) AND BENJAMIN HOYLE '21 (RIGHT).

Two MIT Russia alumni propose an innovative way of renovating mass housing across former USSR

Two MIT Russia alumni, Benjamin Hoyle (MIT Master of Architecture '21) and Eytan Levi (MIT Master of Architecture and

LEAH GOGGIN (LEFT) WITH TWO OTHER MISTI RUSSIA STUDENTS, JAKE BURGA (CENTER) AND ABIGAIL DROKHLYANSKY. PHOTO: EKATERINA ZABROVSKAYA.

Computer science major writes software for a laser physics lab in Russia

The inherently cross-disciplinary nature of MISTI was a totally unique experience that changed her prospective academic

PHOEBE SPRINGSTUBB (FOURTH FROM THE RIGHT) IS WITH OTHER MISTI MIT-RUSSIA STUDENTS IN MOSCOW

History of architecture student researches postindustrial space in Russia

Phoebe did her internship with the Cultural Center ZIL. A former Soviet House of Culture, it’s been reinvented and

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Aero/Astro major Alexander Knapp researches autonomous mobile robots at Skoltech University

During this summer, Alex was given the opportunity to experience many different aspects of Russia, from working in a lab

Aeronautics major interned for Russia’s private space company

Aeronautics major interned for Russia’s private space company

“My job began with assembling existing information on the platform’s development into a single design report,” she says