This year's freshman class at MIT is 5% Black, 1% American Indian/Alaskan Native, 11% Hispanic and 0% Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander. It is 47% Asian American and 37% white.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) banned Megha Vemuri, the Class of 2025 president and valedictorian, from attending her own graduation ceremony on Friday. The ban followed a ...

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before.

Megha Vemuri, MIT's 2025 class president. (Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) MIT's undergraduate commencement was interrupted this morning by a small group of demonstrators ...

News MIT bans class president who gave pro-Palestine speech from commencement Updated: May. 31, 2025, 10:05 a.m. | Published: May. 30, 2025, 12:28 p.m.

Jamil Dellawer, an MIT student, says the experience of camping inside the barricades has been a positive one. "I've made a lot more friends here than I have over the past three years," he admits.

Megha Vemuri, an American student of Indian origin, and President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Class of 2025, sparked intense controversy with her speech at the university's ...

The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before. Megha Vemuri ...

(CNN) — The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before.

(CNN) — The 2025 class president of MIT was barred from attending her graduation ceremony on Friday after delivering a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event the day before.

Data from the US Department of Education shows MIT reported receiving $2.8 million in grants, gifts and contracts from Israeli entities between 2020 and 2024, according to the Globe.