| Cultural Curator | | | | | | Rekha Malhotra became a CMS/W master’s student after 20 years as a New York DJ who brought bhangra music to the U.S. She finds inspiration where art and activism meet, and says of CMS/W: “I feel like I’ve been able to be myself here.” |
| Why visual stimulation may work against Alzheimer’s New findings help explain the discovery that exposure to flickering light reduces amyloid plaques in mice. |  |
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| Women’s sailing wins first NEISA Championship The team will compete in the women’s intercollegiate national sailing championships later this month. |  |
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| Smarter training of neural networks A CSAIL project shows the neural nets we typically train contain smaller “subnetworks” that can learn just as well, and often faster. |  |
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| Painting a fuller picture of how antibiotics act Machine learning reveals metabolic pathways disrupted by the drugs, offering new targets to combat resistance. |  |
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| MIT Motorsports unveils 2019 electric race car “This student hands-on project is really the ‘mens et manus,’ the hands-on portion, of our education,” junior Serena Grown-Haeberli says. |  |
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| Here’s how much students actually pay to go to MIT // CNBC MIT “is one of just a few schools in the country to be considered full-need and need-blind, meaning the school does not consider financial status during acceptance decisions and claims to meet all demonstrated financial need.” |
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| Cobalt for 500,000 electric cars could be harvested from the oceans // New Scientist An MIT study suggests that “strings of plastic balls dangled in the ocean could harvest enough cobalt for hundreds of thousands of electric car batteries.” |
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| A world-changing forum at MIT // The Boston Globe MIT Solve — an MIT effort that aims to bring together innovators with leaders from business, the nonprofit sector, education, and government to tackle some of the world’s most pressing problems — was founded “to amplify good ideas, and so far, it’s working.” |
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| Making neural networks 90 percent smaller — but just as smart // Popular Mechanics MIT researchers have identified a new method to engineer neural networks in a way that allows them to be a tenth the size of current networks without losing any computational ability. |
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| 20 | | Number of terabytes of digital items in the MIT Institute Archives, in addition to 900 gigabytes of web archives and 23 million tangible items |
| | | Kresge Auditorium and the MIT Chapel, both designed by Eero Saarinen and shown in this photo from the 1950s, officially opened this week in 1955 during a “Fortnight Festival” of events. The program included lectures, concerts, and a debate between teams from Harvard University and MIT about the merits of liberal arts versus technical education, among other offerings. |
 | | | | In the past eight months, I’ve learned how to manage my time better (thanks, iCalendar) and how to use a mop (apparently you’re supposed to wring it out first). I’ve become more compassionate, more introspective. I decided that it’s okay if my growth looks different than other people’s. | | —Junior and MIT Admissions blogger Rona W., on the less measurable aspects of personal growth |
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