| Mapping the Energy Transition | | | | | | A new county-by-county study shows where the U.S. job market will evolve most during the transition to clean energy. “The next step is using this data more specifically to design policies to protect these communities,” says Professor Christopher Knittel. Full story via MIT News → |
| 3 Questions: The Climate Project at MIT Richard Lester describes an emerging new initiative that will back climate efforts at the Institute and find outside partnerships to drive actionable innovation. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Miguel Zenón, assistant professor of jazz, wins Grammy Award The renowned saxophonist won Best Latin Jazz Album along with pianist Luis Perdomo for their album, “El Arte Del Bolero Vol. 2.” Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Will AI will take everyone’s jobs? History could inform the answer. In 1938, MIT President Karl Compton wrote that technical progress didn’t mean fewer jobs. His arguments may provide lessons for today. Full story via MIT Technology Review → | |
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| A night at the orchestra, with Pokémon on the program MIT student musicians blend longtime passions as they arrange and perform the music of beloved video games. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Annie Liau: Infinite caring for the MIT community A longtime physician reflects on her journey from Thailand to MIT, and her four decades of service at MIT Health. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Opinion: Can 15-minute cities work in America? // Bloomberg Professor of the practice Carlo Ratti and Arianna Salazar-Miranda SM ’16, PhD ’23 explore the possibility and potential of developing 15-minute cities in the United States. Full story via Bloomberg→ |
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| MIT students propose better ways to connect Kendall Sq. and Logan // Commonwealth Beacon Research Scientist Jim Aloisi and several students from his urban planning and policy course explore different options for creating a better public transportation connection between Kendall Square, in Cambridge, and Boston Logan International Airport. Full story via Commonwealth Beacon → |
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| After 20 years, uncovering the physics behind the spiral pass // NPR Senior Lecturer Richard Price and his colleagues have scored a touchdown by uncovering the physics behind a spiral pass. Full story via NPR→ |
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| Running “Doom” on E. coli cells… very, very slowly // Popular Science Graduate student Lauren “Ren” Ramlan programmed the video game “Doom” to run on a display made from E. coli cells. Full story via Popular Science → |
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| Research can predict how your running shoes will fit you // BostInno MIT researchers developed a model to predict how different shoes will impact individual runners. Full story via BostInno→ |
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| | | Since 1988, Hiroko Matsuyama, a master instructor of the Ohara School of Ikebana, has worked with MIT students on the basics of the ancient art of Japanese flower arrangement. Through an Independent Activities Period (IAP) course offered each year by the MIT-Japan Program, Matsuyama works with students to create their own arrangements. This year marked the final IAP ikebana course for Matsuyama, who is stepping down. “These workshops I’ve taught at MIT have been a treasure to me,” says Matsuyama. “It made me feel more global and become more worldly.” Full story via MIT News→ |
In this episode of the MIT CSAIL Alliances podcast, Professor Hal Abelson joins host Kara Miller in a conversation about how artificial intelligence will shape education moving forward. Abelson, who has long worked on issues related to computer science education, discusses topics including shifts in pedagogy with AI tools in mind, teacher training in the age of generative AI, and why the education sector has been relatively slow to adopt new AI-informed practices in the classroom.
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| | | | | Science journalism is hard to do because it takes time to wade through it all and understand the science with enough depth to tell the story properly. But, what’s more important than a planet on fire? | | —Tony Bartelme, a past winner of the Knight Science Journalism Program’s Victor K. McElheny Award, on the importance of journalism covering issues in science, public health, technology, and the environment Full story via MIT News → |
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