| Greener Autonomous Vehicles | | | | | | The computers that power self-driving cars could become a huge driver of carbon emissions, a new study has found. Researchers say that if these vehicles are widely adopted, increased hardware efficiency will be needed to keep emissions in check. Full story via MIT News → |
| Karenna Groff ’22 named 2022 NCAA Woman of the Year The soccer player and graduate student in biological engineering is the second MIT student-athlete and the sixth Division III student-athlete ever to receive this honor. Full story via MIT Athletics→ | |
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| MIT engineers grow “perfect” atom-thin materials on industrial silicon wafers Their technique could allow chip manufacturers to produce next-generation transistors based on materials other than silicon. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| 3 Questions: What to expect from respiratory illnesses, including Covid-19, this winter MIT Medical Director Cecilia Stuopis says that while this is a time to be more vigilant, people should not panic. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Preparing to be prepared Miho Mazereeuw, an architect of built and natural environments, looks for new ways to get people ready for natural disasters. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| New technologies reveal cross-cutting breakdowns in Alzheimer’s disease “Single-cell profiling” is helping neuroscientists see how disease affects major brain cell types and identify common, potentially targetable pathways. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT’s Karenna Groff named NCAA Woman of the Year // GBH GBH spotlights graduate student Karenna Groff ’22, recently named the NCAA Woman of the Year, and her efforts to make a difference both on and off the field, from her work as an EMT at MIT to her efforts to reduce maternal mortality in southern India. Full story via GBH→ |
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| Opinion: Fictional newsman Ted Baxter was more invested in fame than in good journalism — but unlike today’s pundits, he didn’t corrupt the news // The Conversation Professor Heather Hendershot explores the growth of politically-biased news coverage, comparing Ted Baxter of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” — a fictional news anchor more interested in personal fame than journalistic standards — to today’s pundits. Full story via The Conversation→ |
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| Each year, people start fires that cost 20,000 American lives // U.S. News & World Report MIT researchers have found “fires started by people account for a majority of premature deaths related to inhalation of tiny smoke particles in the United States.” Full story via U.S. News & World Report→ |
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| Staying relevant // Diverse Issues in Higher Education Natalia Rodriguez ’09 discusses her work as a biomedical engineer focused on community health care. “I work to bring health technologies from the lab to the people, and I also work to bring the needs, the priorities and the strengths of communities back to engineers so they know who they’re designing for,” Rodriguez explains. Full story via Diverse Issues in Higher Education→ |
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| | | Senior and MIT Admissions blogger Cami Mejia recently wrote about their experience producing a short film on their adoration of Harry Styles and his band, One Direction, for the MIT Comparative Media Studies class CMS.335J (Short Attention Span Documentary). In the film, Mejia recounts their journey to uberfandom and explains how their time at MIT, through both academics and community interactions, has led to a personal evolution. Watch the video→ |
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