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Plans are in place to meet or exceed greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Symposium commemorates the life and career of pioneering professor and beloved mentor Mildred Dresselhaus.
MIT senior is headed to Ireland to pursue graduate studies in public health.
Senior Drew Bent hopes to level the educational playing field of the future.
MIT media studies professor discusses new essay collection analyzing the impact of drones.
The Bridge Project collaboration accelerates new, highly original, and powerful approaches to defeating cancer.
STAT reporter Hyacinth Empinado highlights Media Lab Research Scientist David Kong’s new project Biota Beats, which uses bacterial data as the basis for hip-hop melodies. “Music is one of the great universal languages of our human society. We thought this would be a really, really wonderful way to engage the broader public and get them excited about science through music,” said Kong.
PRI The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou spotlights a virtual reality exhibit at the MIT Museum by photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa that allows visitors to explore both sides of international conflicts. “What is the point of images of war if they don’t change people’s attitudes towards armed conflicts, violence and the suffering they produce?” says Khelifa of the inspiration for his work.
In an editorial about online learning, The Boston Globe highlights a recent digital learning conference held at MIT, during which, “experts convincingly portrayed innovative online offerings as a key tool for helping those of modest means move up the economic ladder.”
In an op-ed for the Deseret News, graduate student Ryan Hill describes a House-passed tax bill as “devastating” to graduate students, highlighting a provision that designates tuition waivers as taxable income. “The new tax deeply undermines our nation’s commitment to basic research and technological innovation,” writes Hill.
Pocket-sized device detects charged particles in surrounding air.
Ten-month-old infants determine the value of a goal from how hard someone works to achieve it.
Startup’s system captures particle matter from diesel exhaust and turns it into inks and paints.
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