| The Productive Economist | | | | | | Economist Robert Solow won a Nobel Prize for his research on technology, productivity, and growth. But his legacy as a mentor is equally remarkable: All told, he advised more than 70 PhD students, four of whom would win Nobels in economics themselves. Full story via MIT Technology Review → |
| MIT releases results of fact-finding on engagements with Jeffrey Epstein Law firm completes independent review of faculty, staff, and administration actions. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Top MIT research stories of 2019 |
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The most popular stories of the year include science breakthroughs, engineering feats, and confirmation of 16th century architectural genius. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Finding the true potential of algorithms Using mathematical theory, Virginia Williams coaxes algorithms to run faster or proves they’ve hit their maximum speed. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials |
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Using limited data, an automated system developed at MIT predicts a company’s quarterly sales. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Forging a new story from an old ring |
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Stephen Fantone ’74 is donating part of his Brass Rat collection to benefit the financial assistance program that helps today’s students buy Brass Rats. Full story via Slice of MIT → | |
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| Laser ultrasounds can look inside your body without you even feeling it // Gizmodo MIT researchers have developed a non-invasive medical imaging technique “without any physical contact required, improving upon the limitations of equipment like ultrasound machines.” Full story via Gizmodo → |
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| The best interiors books to start the year in style // Financial Times |
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In his latest book, Associate Professor Timothy Hyde explores “the ‘most vile’ buildings of the past century, and explores the societal (and aesthetic) contexts that make them so.” Full story via Financial Times → |
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| The 2019 good tech awards // The New York Times |
Biobot, an MIT startup cofounded by Mariana Matus PhD ’18 and former MIT researcher Newsha Ghaelit, analyzes sewer samples to identify opioid use levels in specific neighborhoods. It is highlighted in a list of tech companies that had a positive social impact in 2019. Full story via The New York Times → |
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| MIT art center hires Natalie Bell, rising New York curator, to oversee exhibitions program // ARTNews |
Natalie Bell has been selected as the new exhibition curator for the MIT List Visual Arts Center. “I’ve long admired the List Center as a laboratory for art and ideas,” Bell said. Full story via ARTNews → |
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| | | MIT’s annual Trashion Show spotlights waste and sustainability: Student designers create garments from trash and recycled materials, which are then modeled on the runway. “These people are driven by risk-taking,” sophomore Julia Chatterjee says. Watch the video → |
| | | When Sneaky the Lizard, a fictional character, received a PhD in chemistry from MIT, an enthusiastic team of researchers in the lab of Yogesh “Yogi” Surendranath was there to celebrate. “My group is so weird, but I love them so much,” the associate professor says. The Surendranath lab — seen here holding some of their favorite things — is a tight-knit group that enjoys inside jokes in addition to imaginary lizards. They also perform groundbreaking work in electrochemistry that’s opening new paths to a low-carbon future. “It is a true joy to interact with enthusiastic, like-minded, passionate people every day and engage with them on really stimulating problems,” Surendranath says. Full story via MITEI Energy Futures → |
| | | A new video celebrates 50 years of Interphase EDGE, a program for first-year students that helps to ensure a successful transition to MIT. “I recall that experience being really instrumental in helping me to feel a part of the MIT community,” says Eboney Hearn ’01, who is now the executive director of MIT’s Office of Engineering Outreach Programs Video and story via MIT News → |
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