One of America’s richest self-made women is a Chinese immigrant who once worked as a flea market seller

Wang Shuo, a Chinese-born, San Francisco-based entrepreneur, is listed among the world’s richest self-made women this year. Making it big: W...

Asian American students less likely to attend Ivy League schools than white peers: study

A study shows that Asian American students — especially South Asian applicants — are less likely to attend Ivy League and other prestigious ...

MIT develops cheap solar-powered device that turns seawater into drinking water

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a low-cost, solar-powered desalination system that could produce...

Indian American student wins MIT’s $100K Entrepreneurship Competition

An Indian American graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won an entrepreneurship competition and received $100...

Asian MIT grad asks AI to make her photo more ‘professional,’ gets turned into white woman

A recent Asian American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) graduate made headlines this month after sharing evidence of racial bias...

Delhi-born MIT student develops ‘mind-reading’ headset that can surf the internet

Arnav Kapur, a Delhi-born graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), invented an artificial intelligence (AI)-enab...

Asian American student with 1590 SAT score blames affirmative action for rejections from 6 colleges

An Asian American student from Florida with a 1590 SAT score who was rejected from six elite universities has joined the Supreme Court case ...

Parents petition MIT to revoke admission of S. Korean minister’s daughter

Several South Korean parents have created an online petition calling for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to reevaluate the a...

Chinese MIT professor helps discover ‘game changer’ months after espionage charges

MIT professor Gang Chen, who was previously accused of espionage, was recently credited with helping discover a potentially groundbreaking ...

Harvard, MIT Sue U.S. for Seeking to Deport Foreign Students Enrolled Only in Online Classes

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over a new visa policy tha...

Filipina Typhoon Survivor Who Won International Science Competition Wins Scholarship to MIT

A Filipina survivor of Typhoon Haiyan recently won an international science competition that eventually got her a scholarship from the Massa...

Korean-American Scientist Couple Discovers Major New Cause of Autism

A Korean-American couple may have found one of the causes of Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), a condition that has puzzled scientists from al...

Meet the 23-Year-Old Blind Indian Man Who Built a $16 Million Startup

Srikanth Bolla had a very difficult start in life, but it didn’t prevent him from achieving a level of success that many may never rea...

Raising Taxes on the Rich Won’t Solve Income Inequality, Says 26-Year-Old MIT Economics Grad

A 26-year-old MIT grad student’s proposed theory on income inequality has challenged one of the most influential economics concepts of this ...

MIT Dean To Create Non-Profit University With No Majors, Classrooms

A dean from the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is setting out to create an unorthodox university with no majors, lectu...

Meet the 22-Year-Old Physics Genius That Harvard Believes is the Next Einstein

Sabrina Pasterski was only 14 years old when she stepped foot into MIT’s campus offices seeking approval one morning for the single-engine ...

MIT Dropout Launches Free College With an Ivy League Acceptance Rate

College debt is without a doubt a serious issue facing college students: 2015 graduates will owe an average of a little more than $35,000. ...

Here’s Why Stanford Startups are Better Than MIT Startups

When you are talking about the best strategy for your startup, there are only two ways to go- strong marketing or mind-blowing technology. ...