Mini Satellite-Maker | | | With her students, aerospace engineer Kerri Cahoy is developing small “CubeSats” to monitor weather and search for exoplanets. Throughout her career, she’s been inspired by the creativity and enthusiasm of her students: “That’s the best part of the job.” Full story via MIT News → |
Report outlines route toward better jobs, wider prosperity MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future identifies ways to align new technologies with durable careers. Full story via MIT News → |
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Versatile building blocks make structures with surprising mechanical properties The subunits could be robotically assembled to produce large, complex objects, including cars, robots, or wind turbine blades. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Xzavier Herbert, a bright star in space math | Math student pursues research at NASA studying connections between classical information theory and quantum information theory. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Teaching lab steps up during pandemic CMS Professor Justin Reich, colleagues help guide schools in remote learning. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Commercializing next-generation nuclear energy technology Oklo’s team is using a startup mindset to build novel reactors while meeting federal regulations. Full story via MIT News → | |
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Lessons from a study of the digital economy // The New York Times Three years after President L. Rafael Reif delivered an “intellectual call to arms” to examine the impact of technology on jobs, the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future has published its final set of recommendations. Full story via The New York Times→ |
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These masks change color when you’re wearing them correctly // Fast Company A mask developed by researchers from MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital is embedded with sensors that change colors when it is properly positioned. Full story via Fast Company→ |
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Five things we know about climate change and hurricanes // The New York Times | Professor Kerry Emanuel discusses the impact of climate change on hurricanes. “Potential intensity is going up,” he says, adding that “even if storms themselves weren’t changing, the storm surge is riding on an elevated sea level.” Full story via The New York Times→ |
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Opinion: A renewed focus on the practice of teaching // Inside Higher Ed Senior Associate Dean for Open Learning Shigeru Miyagawa and instructor Meghan Perdue explore how the transition to online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic “may lead to a fundamental change in the way we approach education.” Full story via Inside Higher Ed→ |
| | For those traveling for the holidays, MIT Medical is providing advice for staying safe amid rising Covid-19 cases around the nation. Travel by air, train, or bus involves a high potential for close contact with others and the risk of contracting Covid-19. To avoid spreading the virus to others, MIT Medical recommends that all travelers quarantine for a full 14 days upon arrival at their destination. A new post provides tips for how to spend those two weeks so close to your loved ones, yet so far away. Graph (above) of reported U.S. Covid-19 cases via the CDC. Learn more via MIT Medical→ | | | I know that many members of the MIT community have aspirations for how the Institute should organize itself to address climate change. And I am also aware of a degree of tension between different groups, as to the best emphasis and the best approach. I hope that we can explore these tensions respectfully and use this moment, together, for the intense and urgent planning and collaboration that this immense challenge requires – because I have no doubt that we are united in our goal and that reaching it will require all of our strength, working together. | | —MIT President L. Rafael Reif, in remarks at yesterday’s virtual Climate Action Symposium on policies to fight climate change Full remarks via the Office of the President→ | |