From MIT to the FBI | | | Kelly (Hogan) Shannon ’02 has always loved investigating. It’s what drew her to MIT to study biology. It’s also what led to her career as an FBI Special Agent. “The skills you learn at MIT are applicable to so many careers,” she says. Full story via Slice of MIT → |
Renowned architect I.M. Pei ’40 dies at 102 Designer of the Louvre pyramid and of the East Building of the National Gallery of Art left a distinctive mark on the MIT campus. Full story via MIT News → | |
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The kilo is dead. Long live the kilo! An old artifact is no longer the standard for the kilogram. As of today, nature itself provides the definition. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Leaving room for a little improvisation At the piano and in the lab, double major Tony Zhang is driven by curiosity and creativity. Full story via MIT News → | |
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MIT and U.S. Air Force sign agreement to launch AI Accelerator New program will focus on rapid deployment of artificial intelligence innovations in operations, disaster response, and medical readiness. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Solution for remotely monitoring oil wells wins MIT $100K Competition MIT startup Acoustic Wells earned the grand prize at the annual entrepreneurship competition. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Can we live longer but stay younger? // The New Yorker “Over the past century, we’ve created the greatest gift in the history of humanity — thirty extra years of life — and we don’t know what to do with it! Now that we’re living longer, how do we plan for what we’re going to do?” says AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin of how AgeLab researchers are developing new technologies aimed at improving the quality of life for people as they age. Full story via The New Yorker → |
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The epic quest to define — and redefine — the kilogram // WGBH News “As of today, the world will never be the same.” So began a special lecture by Professor Wolfgang Ketterle exploring the kilogram’s new standard of measurement. Full story via WGBH → |
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Decay by design: These 3-D-printed organic plastics naturally decompose // Fast Company Researchers in the Mediated Matter Group have created polymers derived from organic materials that are “designed to decompose upon reaching the end of its product life cycle, returning to the earth instead of being destined for a dump.” Full story via Fast Company → |
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Our college sports system is broken. Do we have the guts to fix it? // The Boston Globe Magazine With athletic recruitment in need of change, schools are encouraged to look to MIT for a model of “an athletics-affirming but recruitment-light culture.” “Despite refusing to put a thumb on the scale for athlete applications, MIT has produced a successful sports program that enhances, rather than detracts from, its academic reputation.” Full story via The Boston Globe Magazine → |
| | Irene Chen, a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science, wants to use machine learning to improve heart failure diagnosis and treatment based on patients’ age, history, lab results, and other factors. “The techniques that we have right now just aren’t enough,” she says. Watch the video via YouTube → | | George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company, anonymously contributed $7.5 million to MIT from 1912 to 1920. After his identity was revealed in 1920, a relief bearing his likeness was erected in 1934 in front of Room 6-120. Since then, students have been known to rub Eastman’s nose for good luck on final exams. “Some people believe the luck has been rubbed out of the nose,” Gabrielle Frame ’05 noted in a 2002 interview. “That's why I'm rubbing the ear.” Learn more via the MIT News archive → | This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by grilled cheeeeeeeese. 🥪 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your week! —Maia, MIT News Office |
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