| Musical Proteins | | | | | | “Every bit of matter is a set of vibrations,” says Professor Markus Buehler, who has developed a new system that renders protein structures as sounds resembling musical passages. “We can use this concept as a way of describing matter.” Full story via MIT News → |
| When good jobs go bad Even in “good jobs,” workers are experiencing overload. Strategies from Professor Erin Kelly can decrease burnout, increase satisfaction, and prevent turnover. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| 3 Questions: Illuminating the value of public transportation Urban studies research from MIT sheds light on the ways in which low-income riders use mass transit. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| For Catherine Drennan, teaching and research are complementary passions Professor of biology and chemistry is catalyzing new approaches in research and education to meet the climate challenge. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| A data scientist dedicated to social change MBAn student Mason Grimshaw seeks to bring business solutions to overlooked communities. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT leads Division III with five Google Cloud Academic All-America at-large honorees Two women and three men from the swimming and diving and tennis teams raise to 15 the total number of Academic All-Americans from MIT this year. Full story via MIT Athletics → | |
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| What summer vacation and retirement have in common, and why that’s a problem // Forbes “Retirement positively dwarfs summer vacation in the amount of time involved — yet many people’s plans for retirement look a lot like plans for a summer vacation,” writes AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin. Full story via Forbes → |
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| Toddler coding classes are the new must-have activity for nurseries // Wired Preschools in the UK are introducing the ScratchJr programming language, developed at MIT and Tufts, to teach young children the basics of computer programming. Full story via Wired → |
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| Are big cities overrated? Economists say yes, in some cases // NPR Professor David Autor, co-director of the MIT Work of the Future task force, delves into his new research showing that large American cities no longer provide the same opportunities for upward mobility for people without college degrees. Full story via NPR → |
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| Armoire is angling to become the everyday Rent the Runway // TechCrunch Women’s clothing rental service and MIT spinoff Armoire aims to “provide a daily wardrobe for professional women at a price point that could be attractive enough to switch from an ownership to a rental model for fashion.” Full story via TechCrunch → |
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| | | | | Above the noise of the current moment, the signal I believe we should be sending, loud and clear, is that the story of American immigration is essential to understanding how the U.S. became, and remains, optimistic, open-minded, innovative, and prosperous — a story of never-ending renewal. | | —MIT President L. Rafael Reif, in a letter to the community, reaffirming the Institute’s pride in its immigrant students and scholars Read the full letter → |
| | | MIT OpenCourseWare, the trailblazing platform of free MIT course materials, lecture videos, instructor insights, and more, recently passed 2 million subscribers on its YouTube channel. In celebration, the OCW team made a video — a ridiculous, awesome video — exploring the ways in which the Institute’s educational offerings have taken on new life online. Watch, smile, and learn. Watch the video → |
| | | The number of Brass Rats on campus skyrocketed June 6-9 as more than 2,000 MIT alumni and their guests arrived in Cambridge for the biggest alumni party of the year. The MIT Alumni Association has now compiled several Flickr galleries of photos from the 2019 Tech Reunions: one for general highlights, including the image above from Tech Night at the Pops, plus galleries for the 50th and 25th reunion classes. |
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