President L. Rafael Reif outlines what to expect in the short term — and the ways in which MIT is thinking through options for the future, with input from the community.

How to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic? A new study looks at risks and benefits of different types of businesses.

Lincoln Laboratory joins MIT and others in testing N95 and similar, imported respirator masks to check how well they keep out particles and blood.

Hadley Sikes designs simple-to-use diagnostic devices that could benefit patients around the world.

The MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future responds to rapid changes brought by the pandemic.

Bill Gates featured “Good Economics for Hard Times” by Professors Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo on his recommended summer reading list.

In “Speak Italian With Your Mouth Full,” a free class on MIT OpenCourseWare, Experimental Study Group Lecturer Paola Rebusco dishes up a taste of Italian language, culture, and cooking. Participants are encouraged to “come to class hungry for trivia about each dish, plus background about its place in Italian culture.”

MIT postdoc Lisa Piccirillo, who will join the Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor in July, solved a longstanding question about whether the Conway knot is a slice of a higher-dimensional knot.

As part of an effort aimed at motivating students to remain active, Nick Jewell, an administrative assistant for club sports at MIT, created the Patriots logo during a bike ride around the Boston area using a GPS-based activity app.