| Honoring Millie | | | | | | The courtyard between MIT buildings 4 and 8 and the new MIT.nano facility has been christened the “Improbability Walk,” in honor of the late Institute Professor Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus. “Millie often used the word ‘improbable’ to describe her success,” says Professor Vladimir Bulović, MIT.nano’s founding director. She “used the simple act of walking across campus as an opportunity to teach, and to learn from her students. Combining the idea of improbable journeys and walking as a form of mentorship ... seemed a fitting tribute.” Full story via MIT News → |
| Lamborghini and MIT pave the way for the electric supercar of the future |
MIT-Italy helps build supercharged partnerships on campus and across the globe. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT Energy Initiative report charts pathways for sustainable personal transportation Technological innovations, policies, and behavioral changes will all be needed to reach Paris climate agreement targets. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Bot can beat humans in multiplayer hidden-role games Using deductive reasoning, the bot identifies friend or foe to ensure victory over humans in certain online games. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Exploring the human side of health care Senior and “people person” Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi brings a human touch to caring for people dealing with medical crises. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| “From Controversy to Cure” documentary chronicles the biotech boom in Cambridge 🧬 |
A new film looks at how Kendall Square became a beacon for industries working on treatments for diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and diabetes. Full story via MIT News → |
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| The revealing words people use to describe retirement // The Wall Street Journal Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab, and research scientist Chaiwoo Lee examine how people across the U.S. describe retirement. Full story via The Wall Street Journal → |
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| New “battery” aims to spark a carbon capture revolution // PBS NewsHour MIT researchers developed a device that can remove carbon dioxide from the air at any concentration and from mobile sources such as cars and airplanes. Full story via PBS NewsHour → |
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| Boston evictions happening “orders of magnitude” more in low-income neighborhoods // WBUR Research by graduate student David Robinson finds evictions are occurring at much higher rates in low-income, majority-nonwhite neighborhoods in Boston. Full story via WBUR → |
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| What if you didn’t have to wait for your plane to be de-iced? // The Boston Globe |
De-Ice co-founder and CEO Alexander Bratianu ’15 developed a novel system to de-ice airplanes by wondering if he could “build something similar to your car’s rear-window defroster, where you press a button, and any frost would go away.” Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| | | World Toilet Day, an international observation that highlights the need for sanitation solutions around the globe, took place this week. At present 1 billion people lack access to safe, clean toilets because they lack sewage plumbing. Change:Water Labs, a team participating in the MIT Solve Global Challenges, aims to address this concern with its iThrone Evaporative Toilet. The compact, waterless toilet leverages a fact that NASA has known for decades: 90% of human waste is water. “By dehydrating waste, our membrane acts like shrink-wrap for crap,” says team lead Diana Yousef. The device needs only monthly emptying, ensuring costs remain low. 🚽 Learn more via Forbes → |
| | | | | The rich and powerful externalize their costs, with the impacts falling disproportionately on those with lower incomes and on communities of color. And that’s simply not right. |
| | —Mike Belliveau ’79, executive director of the Environmental Health Strategy Center, which aims to ensure that all people can thrive in a safe environment Full story via Slice of MIT → |
| | | This year we celebrate 50 years of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, or UROP, which links undergraduate students with hands-on research projects across MIT. Now an indispensable part of the academic culture at MIT, UROP was the brainchild of the late Margaret MacVicar, a professor of physical science and of education. It began with just 25 students; today, nearly 90% of all undergraduates participate, and countless others have replicated the program at their own institutions. MacVicar, who was born this week in 1943, died in September 1991. Watch the video → |
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