| Optimizing Health Logistics | | | | | | PhD student Emma Gibson is working to improve diagnostic services in Malawi. “We have the tools” to treat diseases like HIV, she says. “But in resource-limited settings, we often lack the money, the staff, and the infrastructure to reach every patient.” Full story via MIT News → |
| Monkeypox: What you should know MIT Medical provides guidance on this public health emergency, including information about symptoms, treatment, and prevention. Full story via MIT Medical → | |
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| Friendly skies? An MIT study charts Covid-19 odds for plane flights Researchers calculated the chances of catching the illness when aloft during the first year of the pandemic. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT submits U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief in Harvard/UNC admissions cases MIT, together with Stanford University, IBM, and Aeris Communications, filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to allow colleges and universities to consider race as one of many factors in admissions. More via the Office of the General Counsel | Full brief → | |
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| MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body New stamp-sized ultrasound adhesives produce clear images of heart, lungs, and other internal organs. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| 3 Questions: John Durant on the new MIT Museum at Kendall Square The MIT Museum director describes how the museum is reinventing itself for the 21st century. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Major semiconductor support bill passes first hurdle // Science Friday Professor Jesús del Alamo discusses the importance of the CHIPS Act and the pressing need to invest in semiconductor manufacturing in the U.S. “There is a deep connection between leading-edge manufacturing and innovation,” says del Alamo. Full story via Science Friday→ |
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| Slowly but surely, robots will wind up in our clothes // The Washington Post Professor Yoel Fink and colleagues “have created fibers with hundreds of [silicon] microchips to transmit digital signals — essential if clothes are to automatically track things like heart rate or foot swelling.” Full story via The Washington Post → |
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| Manifesta 14 reinvigorates neglected spaces in Kosovo’s capital // Economist Professor of the practice Carlo Ratti speaks on his work aimed at revitalizing unused spaces in Kosovo’s capital. “We wanted to start something that could continue in the long term: small interventions that, little by little, could become part of the city,” he says. Full story via Economist→ |
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| Could silk take a bite out of humanity’s microplastic problem? // Salon MIT researchers led by Assistant Professor Benedetto Marelli and postodoc Muchun Liu developed a silk-based substitute that could be used to replace microplastics. Full story via Salon → |
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| | | Unified Engineering is a rite of passage for AeroAstro sophomores, putting them on a path toward careers as aeronautical engineers. “It equips the students with fundamental skills,” Professor Zoltán Spakovszky says. “There’s hands-on experience as well.” Watch the video → |
| | | | | Covid is far from over, but we are moving to a place where, as a society and as individuals, we are learning how to live with the disease. ... [W]e are progressing to a point where Covid is more closely resembling the flu than the terrifying disease it was back in early 2020. | | —Cecilia Stuopis, director of MIT Medical, on where things stand with Covid-19 at MIT, and what to expect for the fall Full story via MIT News → |
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