| Engineering Business | | | | | | Versed in both engineering and business, MIT Sloan Fellow James Fok saw that a lack of financial savvy was impeding engineering solutions. The realization set him on a path to “bring engineering to the market by being the financier of it.” Full story via MIT News → |
| Pantry ingredients can help grow carbon nanotubes Study finds baking soda, detergent, and table salt — all rich in sodium — are effective catalysts. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| For one grad student, MIT’s nuclear reactor is like a “second home” As she prepares to graduate, health sciences and technology doctoral candidate Agata Wiśniowska reflects on her journey with the MIT Nuclear Reactor Lab. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Fabrics poised to become the new software 🎽 Basic research advance leads to production of more than 250,000 chips embedded within fibers in less than a year. Full story via MIT News → |
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| 3 Questions: Reopening the case of cold fusion Professor Yet-Ming Chiang is part of a multi-institution effort to investigate the possibility of cold fusion in a scientifically rigorous way. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT education inside prison walls MIT’s Educational Justice Institute helps to improve prospects of incarcerated people eligible for release, enhance the lives of those serving long sentences, and teach MIT students about the criminal justice system. Full story via Slice of MIT → |
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| These glowing plants could one day light our homes // Smithsonian Professors Michael Strano and Sheila Kennedy have developed an exhibit for the Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial exploring how Strano’s plant research could be part of a sustainable energy future. Full story via Smithsonian → |
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| From famous to forgotten // Innovation Hub Research scientist César Hidalgo discusses his work investigating collective memory and how society experiences generational forgetting. Full story via Innovation Hub → |
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| When students learn by making projects, how do you gauge their progress? // The Washington Post MIT’s Playful Journey Lab has developed assessment tools to help educators track skills development in playful learning activities. “We want to support teachers who are fighting for these types of activities and future-ready skills,” explains YJ Kim, the lab’s executive director. Full story via The Washington Post → |
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| The hidden heroines of chaos // Quanta Magazine Two MIT computer programmers, Ellen Fetter and Margaret Hamilton, played a seminal and previously untold role in developing the “specific programs that revealed the signatures of chaos.” Full story via Quanta Magazine → |
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| | | Competitive a cappella has been a “thing” for more than two decades: Singing groups of all levels can compete in national championships and on game shows looking to highlight the best of vocal song. This spring, the Chorallaries of MIT, a co-ed a cappella student group, joined 17 other choral ensembles on “Sing That Thing!,” an a cappella competition airing on New England’s WGBH network. Their appearance was made available online this week! Watch the episode (Chorallaries' segment starts at 14:44) → |
| | | | | [It] became such a constant and discouraging query that the only thing seemed to be for me to hang out my own shingle and see what I would do about it. | | —Marian Cruger Coffin, MIT alumna, pioneering landscape architect, and civil rights activist, on overcoming the stigma of being an unmarried professional woman in the early 1900s Learn more via The Review → |
| | | Megan Smith ’86, SM ’88 (third from left), CEO of Shift7, former U.S. chief technology officer, and longtime MIT Solve advisor, chatted during this year’s Solve at MIT with the 2019 Indigenous Communities Fellows. Through this unique fellowship program, MIT Solve seeks innovators within the Oceti Sakowin, Navajo Nation, and Hopi Tribe communities with solutions that support and scale sustainable economic development and resiliency using technology. The current-year fellowship sought native-led solutions that use traditional and ancestral knowledge along with technology to create sustainable and prosperous livelihoods for indigenous communities. Learn more via MIT Solve → |
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