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Can you recommend a science communication textbook?

Our favorite single book about technical communication is Trees, Maps, and Theorems by Jean-luc Doumont.

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  • What’s new in the Comm Lab?

    June 11, 2020 Our Communication Lab teams are always thinking about new communication skills and scenarios that we can help to demystify and support. To find a curated collection of our newest resources, click here.

  • Caitlin Stier wins 2025 School of Engineering Infinite Mile Award

    July 2, 2025 Caitlin Stier, Communication Lab and Career Services Manager for Chemical Engineering, is a recipient of the 2025 School of Engineering Infinite Mile Award.  This award is designed to recognize those individuals or teams who have made extraordinary contributions within their own organizations to help the Institute carry out its mission. Caitlin Stier works with a […]

  • President Emeritus Reif discusses how developing communication and leadership skills can solve the world’s most challenging problems

    June 30, 2025 As an electrical engineering student at Stanford University in the late 1970s, L. Rafael Reif was working on not only his PhD but also learning a new language. “I didn’t speak English. And I saw that it was easy to ignore somebody who doesn’t speak English well,” Reif recalled. To him, that meant speaking with […]

  • I hated writing—until I learned there’s a science to it

    October 21, 2024 Read EECS Fellow, Rachel Yang’s, essay, which was published in Science, about discovering that writing doesn’t have to be so intimidating if you treat it as trial-and-error – like research.

  • Gazing Upwards with MIT’s Evan Kramer

    February 29, 2024 Night hides a world but reveals a universe. Through this lens the world’s landmarks connect to celestial wonders, science meets art, and astrophotography contributes to nature conservation. Join Evan Kramer, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate and Comm Lab Fellow at MIT, and Babak Tafreshi, a National Geographic photographer, for an afternoon of inspiring photography and conversation […]

  • Comm Lab in the News

    November 6, 2023 Learn how the Comm Lab turns engineers into well-rounded communicators in this MIT News article celebrating the SoE’s Communication Lab and its 10th anniversary. “For MIT engineering students and postdocs, tasks like writing grant proposals, applying to jobs, and presenting research findings require not only technical expertise but also the ability to clearly communicate. For […]

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