| Jumping Cheetah Bot | | | | | | While four-legged robots have made solid progress, they still lag behind animals in traversing rugged landscapes. A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables such robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time. |
| How diet affects tumors A new study finds cutting off cells’ supplies of lipids can slow the growth of tumors in mice. |  |
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| Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids Project scientist Professor Richard Binzel discusses NASA’s latest interplanetary mission, which is co-led by Cathy Olkin ’88, PhD ’96. |  |
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| Improving management everywhere From farmers to supply chains, Associate Professor Karen Zheng tackles operations issues from around the globe. |  |
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| Dinosaurs may have lived in social herds as early as 193 million years ago Fossils indicate a communal nesting ground and adults who foraged and took care of the young as a herd, scientists say. |  |
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| How the brain deals with uncertainty Dedicated circuits evaluate uncertainty in the brain, preventing it from using unreliable information to make decisions. |  |
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| Dropbox CEO: Pandemic caused “the death of the office as we’ve known it” // The Boston Globe Drew Houston ’05, co-founder and CEO of Dropbox, discusses his favorite courses and extracurricular activities at MIT, his first computer, and the future of work at Dropbox during a recent visit to the Institute, where he announced a gift that will endow a professorship in the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. |
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| A real-world revolution in economics // The Economist Professor Joshua Angrist, a winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in economics, discusses how his work has helped bring economics closer to real life. |
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| Women’s potential is undervalued at work // Forbes An MIT study finds “women tend to be under-represented in managerial roles in large part because their leadership skills are undervalued.” |
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| Kids of color and STEM // GBH Senior Lecturer Renee Richardson Gosline discusses ways to increase diversity in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) fields, and how to lower barriers and encourage more children of color to pursue STEAM-related careers. |
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| | | Members of the MIT community gathered last week for a social hosted by President L. Rafael Reif to welcome the Institute’s new chancellor, Melissa Nobles. Hundreds of students, staff, and faculty enjoyed light refreshments while taking the opportunity to meet the new chancellor, who greeted community members with elbow bumps. “It was wonderful to catch up with so many members of our community at the celebration,” Nobles says. “I am honored to be serving MIT in this new role, and I very much look forward to working alongside our amazing students and the wonderful teams throughout the Office of the Chancellor to educate the whole student and to deepen the meaning of an MIT education.” |
 | | | | Failure is such an interesting concept. Sometimes you have complete control over an outcome and you don’t realize it until after it’s over. Other times the end result is totally out of your hands and you don’t figure that out until it’s too late. And, most of the time, it’s a fleeting moment for you to learn from and then, despite how hard it seems, move on from and grow. | | —Kellen Manning, in a recent essay, “A small moment in time,” reflecting on the meaning of failure |
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