| Long-term Sensing | | | | | | Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and depression are linked to dopamine deficits. Neuroscientists have now devised a way to track dopamine levels in the brain for more than a year, which may clarify its role in both healthy and diseased brains. Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT named No. 3 university by US News Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Smoothing out sketches’ rough edges MIT-developed tool improves automated image vectorization, saving digital artists time and effort. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT alumnus and GM engineer returns to campus to inspire student innovation Will Dickson ’14 is trailblazing new ways to spark collaborations and scout talent. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT Open Access Task Force releases white paper Paper provides an overview of efforts to make research and scholarship more freely and openly available. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Effort to support postsecondary education in prison will be housed at MIT A multi-university consortium will look to transform the lives of incarcerated people through education. Full story via MIT News → |
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| How to convince someone global warming is real? Play this game // NBC News Researchers at MIT and UMass Lowell have found a role-playing game helps people discover the urgency of climate change and motivates them to act. Full story via NBC News → |
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| Role models tell girls that STEM’s for them in new campaign // The New York Times Amy Fitzgerald, Edgerton Center outreach program coordinator, says the Ad Council’s new “She Can STEM” campaign aimed at girls “could have a big effect.” It’s vital to feature women who get their hands dirty, she says. “Girls, especially, do not have an idea of the range of possibilities.” Full story via The New York Times → |
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| Little bot swims through pipes to see if they’re leaking // Fast Company A robot that can identify leaks in pipes could help with a pressing global challenge. You Wu SM ’14, PhD ’18 estimates that “if half of the leaks in the world could be found and fixed, that would recover enough water to support 1 billion people.” Full story via Fast Company → |
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Name: Matt Burns
Affiliation: Cashier at LaVerde’s Market
Years at MIT: 10
Hometown: Berlin, New Hampshire
Favorite vacation spot: London
Musicians you love: Rolling Stones, Ian Hunter, The Replacements
Sports team: All the Boston teams
Last great book you read:
“Since We Fell” by Dennis Lehane
Secret superpower: I’m a drummer in a couple of bands
Favorite thing about MIT: WMBR 88.1 |
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| | | At MIT, six-time U.S. yo-yo champion Alex Hattori has been able to combine his passion for yo-yoing and his fascination with robotics. Thanks to the Institute’s makerspaces, the mechanical engineering senior says he started making yo-yos “as soon as I got to MIT.” Last fall, he advanced his skills by creating 50 identical yo-yos using different processes in course 2.008 (Design and Manufacturing II). Video via MIT MechE on YouTube → |
| | | | | It’s hall-of-fame-level type advertising. Not to mention the signal it sends given the current climate. | | —Renée Gosline, MIT Sloan School of Management senior lecturer and expert in brands and social media, on a recent Nike ad supporting Colin Kaepernick, an NFL player who has ignited controversy by kneeling during the national anthem in protest of police brutality Full story via MIT Sloan News → |
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