| 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.” Full story via MIT News → |
| Why visual stimulation may work against Alzheimer’s New findings help explain the discovery that exposure to flickering light reduces amyloid plaques in mice. Full story via MIT News → | |
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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. Full story via MIT Athletics → | |
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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. Full story via MIT News → | |
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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. Full story via MIT News → | |
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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. Full story via MIT News → | |
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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.” Full story via CNBC → |
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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.” Full story via New Scientist → |
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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.” Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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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. Full story via Popular Mechanics → |
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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 Learn more via MIT Libraries → |
| | | 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. Learn more → |
| | | | | 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 Full story via MIT Admissions Blogs → |
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