| A Life of Curiosity | | | | | | After escaping the Nazis, Josef Eisinger PhD ’51 went on to an impressive scientific career — and a joyful life. “I was never just an artist, or just a scientist, or just a lumberjack,” he says. “I wanted to pursue all of them, to try everything.” |
| Atoms on the edge Physicists capture images of ultracold atoms flowing freely, without friction, in an exotic “edge state.” |  |
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| Wealthier workers benefit most from retirement savings “nudges” New research explores how nudging people toward saving more for retirement doesn’t work equally well for all savers. |  |
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| Startup’s displays engineer light to generate immersive experiences without the headsets “We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon and a former MIT postdoc. |  |
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| How will we make things? MIT researchers are defining the next generation of manufacturing in three ways. |  |
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| A brief guide to the greenhouse gases driving climate change There’s more to global warming than just carbon dioxide. |  |
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| MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders Through MIT’s 2N Program and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, active duty naval officers gain the technical skills they need to lead projects in the U.S. Navy. |  |
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| Introducing the 2024 Grist 50 list // Grist Professor Asegun Henry has been named a 2024 Grist honoree for his work developing a “sun in a box,” a new cost-effective system for storing renewable energy. |
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| How three MIT professors changed the way kids learn about tech // The Boston Globe Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner spotlights the work of Professor Mitchel Resnick developing the Scratch programming language and the Clubhouse Network, Professor Neil Gershenfeld creating the Fab Lab network of makerspaces, and the late Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers and his work with the FIRST robotics competitions, programs that “get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.” |
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| Seashell art is shedding its kitschy reputation // The New York Times Graduate student Krista Mileva-Frank is curating “Objects for a Heavenly Cave,” an art exhibition at the Marta gallery in Los Angeles highlighting the work of 13 artists and collectives considering “how the legacy of the Renaissance grotto might extend to their own work.” |
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| Opinion: Lessons from Market Basket’s summer of 2014 shape the future of work // The Boston Globe Professor Thomas Kochan explores how workers, unions, CEOs, and politicians can all draw lessons from the Market Basket protests in 2014. |
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| | | Three MIT professors accepted the prestigious Kavli Prize from King Harald V of Norway in Oslo on Sept. 3. The event was part of Kavli Week, a series akin to Nobel Week in which new Kavli Laureates in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience take part in lectures, roundtable discussions, a banquet, and an award ceremony. Nearly 40% of this year’s Kavli Prize winners hail from MIT; they are astrophysicist Sara Seager (left), biological engineer and nanoscientist Robert Langer (third from left), and neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher (third from right). |
| | | This September, to mark National Student Parent Month, MIT’s Office of Graduate Education (OGE) is featuring one graduate student parent per week, highlighting their academic work and parenting journey at MIT. OGE highlights Diana Grass, a third-year PhD student from Colombia whose research bridges neuroscience, immunology, and engineering to investigate the communication between the nervous and immune systems. “To all the parents out there chasing dreams while nurturing little ones, keep going,” says Grass, a mom to two children. “You’re not just building your future; you’re inspiring theirs.” |
| | | MIT’s Killian Court took some time to develop into the verdant courtyard that it is today. This 89-year-old photo, recently shared in a Boston Globe newsletter, shows the 1935 installation of one of MIT’s hawthorn trees, a relative giant compared to the saplings studding the court at the time. |
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