| Shape-Changing Wing | | | | | Assembled from hundreds of identical pieces, a radically new kind of airplane wing changes shape to control flight. It could boost performance and efficiency, Center for Bits and Atoms researchers say, while increasing flexibility in design and manufacturing. |
| MIT launches 2019 AAU survey on sexual misconduct, responds to National Academies report |
Survey is open to all students; MIT has also created a presidential advisory board and helped launch a national consortium to improve academic climates and cultures. |  |
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| The future of agriculture is computerized Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features. |  |
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| Squire Booker PhD ’94 to speak at 2019 Investiture of Doctoral Hoods and Degree Conferral Ceremony Professor of chemistry, biochemistry, and molecular biology at Penn State is an expert on enzyme reactions. |  |
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| Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately Polymers could be designed to reflect or trap heat, regardless of hue. |  |
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| Designing vehicles that drive, fly — and swim Senior and Marshall Scholar Crystal Winston pursues her vision of a world where cars aren’t limited to roads. |  |
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| Are you “virtue signaling”? // The New York Times In an op-ed, Professor David Rand and a colleague discuss their forthcoming paper about moral outrage and their study on “virtue signaling,” in which speech is meant to “make a speaker appear superior by condemning others.” |
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| The evidence against rent control // NPR “The evidence is very clear that rent control doesn’t work the way it’s intended to work,” says Professor Albert Saiz. “There are policies that look a bit like rent control but that do not necessarily distort the housing market.” |
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| Fostering cross-racial friendships in communities // Under the Radar with Callie Crossley Alyce Johnson, interim Institute community equity officer, and Sharon Bridburg, director of human resources for the Office of the Vice Chancellor, discuss their participation in The Club, a “diverse group of friends in the MIT and Harvard human resources community.” |
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| Don’t expect car ownership to become obsolete // Bloomberg A working paper co-authored by Professor Chris Knittel shows that millennials are still interested in owning cars rather than renting or sharing. |
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| | | “There’s a lot of science behind curling, including some that’s actually not so well understood,” says graduate student Nate Bailey, a member of the MIT Curling Club. “I think it works at MIT because of that curiosity,” sophomore Leanne Galanek adds. |
| 67 | | Percentage of incoming first-year MIT students with training in the arts |
| | | Mária Telkes was a pioneering scientist and inventor who specialized in turning sunlight into usable energy. Born in Hungary, she joined MIT in 1939 to work on solar energy projects. Telkes is perhaps best known as the scientist who, together with architect Eleanor Raymond and philanthropist Amelia Peabody, created the first modern home to be heated entirely by the sun. The Dover Sun House, seen here, was built in 1948 in Dover, Massachusetts, about 20 miles southwest of Boston. In 2012, Telkes was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame for her work on solar thermal storage systems. |
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