In 2014, four MIT students created Humans of MIT, a Facebook portrait-blog that profiles MIT community members through a single photo and the subject’s own words.

MIT home page Spotlights showcase the research, technology and education advances taking place at the Institute every day.

The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968 sparked changes at MIT: formation of the BSU, new initiatives and programs, annual commemorations, and a designated Institute holiday.