| Gift of Music | | | | | | A new building for music performance, practice, and instruction “will amplify the positive power of music in the life of MIT,” President L. Rafael Reif says. Some 1,500 students take music courses each year; it’s among the most popular of MIT’s 42 minors. Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT engineers fly first-ever plane with no moving parts The silent, lightweight aircraft doesn’t depend on fossil fuels. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Potential arthritis treatment prevents cartilage breakdown Injectable material made of nanoscale particles can deliver arthritis drugs throughout cartilage. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Three MIT faculty elected 2018 AAAS Fellows Jacqueline Hewitt, Kristala Prather, and John Lienhard are recognized for their efforts to advance science. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Healthy eating made easy 🥕 Startup PlateJoy sends users personalized meal plans to help them achieve health goals. Full story via MIT News → |
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| René García Franceschini: Engineering energy solutions for all “The human impact that I have is equally, if not more, important to me than the technical rigor of the work I’m doing,” says the senior. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| It’s all smoots and garns // Physics World Oliver Smoot ’62, namesake of the smoot unit of measurement, describes “how something that can take you an hour and a half ... in college can live to affect your whole life.” Full story via Physics World → |
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| What single word defines who you are? // BBC News A test to determine whether you’re communicating with a chatbot or a human suggests “knowingly flouting a taboo and provoking, rather than simply describing, an emotion might be the most straightforward way of conveying your shared humanity.” Full story via BBC news → |
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| Climate change will cause more simultaneous disasters // The New York Times |
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By 2100, parts of the world could face as many as six climate-related crises at once. “Nations, societies in general, have to deal with multiple hazards,” says Professor Kerry Emanuel. Full story via The New York Times → |
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| Cutting-edge kit helps teach biology // WBUR |
New classroom kits developed at MIT allow kids to learn and experiment with the building blocks of DNA. Full story via WBUR → |
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| | | Students in 2.00b (Toy Product Design) journey from toy ideation and modeling to testing. “There is a lot of engineering that goes into making toys durable but also whimsical,” says mechanical engineering instructor Georgia Van de Zande. Full story | Watch the video → |
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