| Opera for the Holidays | | | | | | Music is integral to the holidays — and so we present Allison Provaire, a senior administrative assistant in EAPS and a trained opera singer, singing Puccini’s “Chi il bel sogno di Doretta” atop a windy Green Building. Happy holidays! Watch the video → |
| Hashim Sarkis named curator of 2020 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition Dean of MIT's School of Architecture and Planning will curate the global showcase for architectural work. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Building site identified for MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing Headquarters would replace Building 44, forming an “entrance to computing” near the intersection of Vassar and Main streets. Full story via MIT News → |
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| Music technology accelerates at MIT An increasingly popular program is drawing students eager to build — and use — the next generation of tools for making music. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Laser-pointing system could help tiny satellites transmit data to Earth 📡 Platform offers the precision that shoebox-sized CubeSats need to beam down hefty data packets. Full story via MIT News → |
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| Met Warehouse renovation planning takes an exciting next step Community-driven selection of project architect opens opportunities to imagine new life for historic building as future home for School of Architecture and Planning. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| The 10 best colleges for feminists // College Magazine MIT has been named to a list of the 10 best American colleges for feminists. Full story via College Magazine → |
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| Discovery of “magic-angle graphene” named 2018 Breakthrough of the Year // Physics World Professor Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s discovery of graphene that behaves like a high-temperature superconductor is the Physics World 2018 Breakthrough of the Year. Physics World also honored Associate Professor Steven Barrett for his work demonstrating a combustion-free, propeller-free plane, and research affiliate Alan Rogers for his work studying ancient hydrogen. Full story via Physics World → |
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| Your data can still be identified, even if it’s anonymized // Fast Company MIT researchers found that it’s easy to reidentify anonymized data compiled in massive datasets. Full story via Fast Company → |
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| Developing curricula for the AI era // The Wall Street Journal Provost Martin Schmidt and SHASS Dean Melissa Nobles discuss MIT’s efforts to advance the study of artificial intelligence and its ethical and societal implications through the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Full story via the Wall Street Journal → |
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| | | Get to know the MIT Office of Minority Education! This video highlights the mission of the OME to promote academic excellence, build strong communities, and develop professional mindsets among MIT students of underrepresented minority groups, through various programs offered around the Institute. “It’s an oasis in the middle of the chaos,” says Nina Sara Fraticelli-Guzman, a senior in mechanical engineering, of her experience with the OME. “They’re open arms, no matter who you are or where you’re from.” Watch the video via YouTube → |
| | | | | During that first year in graduate school, I was very close to quitting. I almost went back to Venezuela. But I didn’t. Partly, I was too embarrassed to quit. After all, one of my older brothers had already come to America and earned a PhD. But I also knew that the only path I had to a better life was to make myself stronger and better — to get all the education that I could. And when you’re an immigrant, and you feel like giving up, it is that drive that gives you the power to struggle, and struggle and struggle — until you succeed. You don’t have to be an immigrant to have that kind of drive — but that unstoppable energy is the essential story of America. | | —MIT President L. Rafael Reif, speaking at the International Institute of New England's Golden Door Award Gala Read the full speech → |
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