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Expert in high-efficiency energy and water systems will succeed Gang Chen as MechE department head.
Physics alumnus who saw the Hindenburg fly over campus now collaborates with researchers to explore the impacts of longevity.
Graduate student Alexa Aguilar helps tiny satellites communicate and builds connections in her academic community.
Alberto Abadie refines the tools of economics — and gets some interesting results along the way.
Wired reporter Aarian Marshall highlights how MIT is launching a new undergraduate major that will combine computer science and urban planning. Prof. Eran Ben-Joseph explains that the motivation for the major is studying how, “you make a better connection between the training and computation, and what the implication of the work will be, for communities, for policies.”
Forbes reporter Anne Field highlights MDaaS Global, an MIT startup that aims to operate low-cost primary and diagnostic care centers in Africa. After seeing how a lack of medical equipment made it difficult for doctors to treat patients in rural areas, MIT graduate Oluwasoga Oni decided, “to build critical infrastructure in a scalable way across the continent.”
Prof. Cynthia Breazeal helped Mattel design the latest Barbie in its “Career of the Year” line, who is a robotics engineer. In collaboration with the online platform Tynker, the company is also offering “seven free "Barbie-inspired” coding lessons that will focus on logic, problem-solving, and other skills that a potential robotics engineer will need,” writes Melissa Locker for Time.
Study reveals how, when a synapse strengthens, its neighbors weaken.
Study links piano education with better word discrimination by kindergartners.
Search considered successful “dress rehearsal” for exoplanet hunter TESS.
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