| Time-Delay Pills | | | | | | With a new type of pill developed by MIT researchers, some medications could be taken once a week instead of daily. In a phase 3 clinical trial, the once-a-week capsule delivered the drug risperidone in patients with schizophrenia, controlling their symptoms just as well as daily doses. Full story via MIT News → |
| Window-sized device taps the air for safe drinking water MIT engineers developed an atmospheric water harvester that produces fresh water anywhere — even Death Valley, California. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| New system enables robots to solve manipulation problems in seconds Researchers developed an algorithm that lets a robot “think ahead” and consider thousands of potential motion plans simultaneously. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Listening to frontline workers An MIT Sloan study led by Erin Kelly explores power of employee input to improve workplace conditions. Full story via MIT Spectrum→ | |
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| Animation technique simulates the motion of squishy objects The approach could help animators to create realistic 3D characters or engineers to design elastic products. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Have a damaged painting? Restore it in just hours with an AI-generated “mask” A new method can physically restore original paintings using digitally constructed films, which can be removed if desired. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| The scholar-warrior: How Erik Lin-Greenberg bridges academia and Air Force intelligence The MIT political scientist and U.S. Air Force Reserve squadron commander brings unique perspective to both the classroom and the military. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Engineering better sleep during menopause Loewen Cavill ’20, co-founder of Amira Health, helped to develop a wearable bracelet and cooling mattress pad to address debilitating hot flashes. Full story via Slice of MIT→ | |
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| Ozempic, the internet, GPS: Here are 5 things New England researchers helped develop with federal funding // The Boston Globe Boston Globe reporter Emily Spatz spotlights how a number of key technologies — including the internet and the first widely used electronic navigation system — were created by MIT researchers with the support of federal funding. Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| New mobile robot helps seniors walk safely and prevent falls // Fox News MIT researchers developed a mobile robot, dubbed E-BAR, that’s designed to help physically support the elderly and prevent falls at home. Full story via Fox News→ |
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| Prolific MIT materials professor develops a clean power source for airplanes made from … table salt? // The Boston Globe Professor Yet-Ming Chiang and colleagues developed a sodium-air fuel cell that “packs three to four times more energy per pound than common lithium-ion batteries,” which could eventually be used as a runway for “a groundbreaking clean power source for airplanes.” Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| Stanley Fischer, groundbreaking economist and Fed vice chair, dies at 81 // The Wall Street Journal Professor Emeritus Stanley Fischer, “one of the most influential economists of recent decades,” has died at age 81. Full story via The Wall Street Journal→ |
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| | | “Madrigal” is a vibrant campus sculpture by Sanford Biggers that was recently acquired as the Percent-for-Art commission for MIT’s new Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building (Building W18). Biggers, who is attracted to quilts for their vernacular artistry and as everyday domestic objects, has studied pre-1900 versions and the long-debated historical narrative that certain patterns functioned as semaphores, conveying coded messages along the Underground Railroad to aid enslaved people in their flight to emancipated territories. With “Madrigal,” dazzling visual harmonies (and discordances) are created as the work’s complex geometry enfolds six distinct quilt patterns into seemingly endless configurations. Learn more→ |
| 477,053 | | Area, in square feet, of recreation facilities at MIT, spanning 26 acres throughout the MIT campus Learn more→ |
| | | In this video, Eran Egozy ’95, MEng ’95 discusses his time as an engineering major and musician at MIT, during which he was able to take a signal processing course that led him to discover the powerful connection between engineering and music. Egozy also shares how he co-founded the company that developed the popular video game “Guitar Hero,” as well as his return to the Institute as a professor of the practice in music technology and leader of MIT’s Music Technology and Computation graduate program, which launches this fall. Watch the video→ |
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