# News

**Source**: https://gue.mit.edu/news-and-updates/news/
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#### [For one learner, online MIT courses are “like getting a Ferrari for the price of an electric scooter”](https://gue.mit.edu/news/for-one-learner-online-mit-courses-are-like-getting-a-ferrari-for-the-price-of-an-electric-scooter/)

Senior engineer Badri Ratnam has enhanced his education and career with 40 courses offered by MITx at MIT Open Learning.

#### [Engineering confidence to navigate uncertainty](https://gue.mit.edu/news/engineering-confidence-to-navigate-uncertainty/)

In 16.85 Autonomy Capstone (Design and Testing of Autonomous Vehicles), AeroAstro students build software that allows autonomous flight vehicles to navigate unknown environments.

#### [Enhancing maritime cybersecurity with technology and policy](https://gue.mit.edu/news/enhancing-maritime-cybersecurity-with-technology-and-policy/)

Strahinja Janjusevic brings an international perspective and US Naval Academy education to his graduate research in the MIT Technology and Policy Program.

#### [Bridging science and society in the emerging bioeconomy](https://gue.mit.edu/news/bridging-science-and-society-in-the-emerging-bioeconomy/)

In STS.059 (The Bioeconomy and Society), students explore the social and political factors at work in the biology, biotech, and biological engineering sectors.

#### [Exploring the promise of regenerative aquaculture at an Arkansas fish farm](https://gue.mit.edu/news/exploring-the-promise-of-regenerative-aquaculture-at-an-arkansas-fish-farm/)

Through research with MIT D-Lab, MIT engineering student Kiyoko “Kik” Hayano worked with Keo Fish Farms to build a model for regenerative water systems.

#### [Bringing the stage to the classroom](https://gue.mit.edu/news/bringing-the-stage-to-the-classroom/)

21T.100 (Theater Arts Production) gathers MIT students, faculty, staff, and other professionals to produce feature-length performances.

#### [Times Higher Education ranks MIT No. 1 in arts and humanities, business and economics, and social sciences for 2026](https://gue.mit.edu/news/times-higher-education-ranks-mit-no-1-in-arts-and-humanities-business-and-economics-and-social-sciences-for-2026/)

Top worldwide honors span disciplines across three MIT schools for the second year in a row.

#### [Counter Intelligence](https://gue.mit.edu/news/counter-intelligence/)

Architecture students bring new forms of human-machine interaction into the kitchen.

#### [Katie Spivakovsky wins 2026 Churchill Scholarship](https://gue.mit.edu/news/katie-spivakovsky-wins-2026-churchill-scholarship/)

The MIT senior will pursue a master’s degree at Cambridge University in the U.K. this fall.

#### [The philosophical puzzle of rational artificial intelligence](https://gue.mit.edu/news/the-philosophical-puzzle-of-rational-artificial-intelligence/)

As AI technology advances, a new interdisciplinary course seeks to equip students with foundational critical thinking skills in computing.