| VR For All Ages | | | | | | The startup Rendever is helping older adults dealing with depression and isolation, using the immersive world of virtual reality. Starting the company “was one of the most important things I’ve done in my life,” says Reed Hayes MBA ’17. Full story via MIT News → |
| Letter regarding preliminary fact-finding about MIT and Jeffrey Epstein A letter was sent to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif. Full story via MIT News → |
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| The answer to life, the universe, and everything Mathematics researcher Drew Sutherland helps solve a decades-old sum-of-three-cubes puzzle for 42, with an assist from “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.” Full story via MIT News → | |
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| 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics awarded to the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration for black hole observation Nearly 30 MIT-affiliated researchers will share the prize, while David Julius ’77 wins a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences; assistant professor of physics Max Metlitski shares New Horizons prize with Xie Chen PhD ’12 and Michael Levin PhD ’06. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Engineers develop multimaterial fiber “ink” for 3-D-printed devices Filaments with embedded circuitry can be used to print complex shapes for biomedical and robotic devices. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT named No. 3 university by US News for 2020 Undergraduate engineering program is No. 1; undergraduate business program is No. 2. Full story via MIT News → |
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| Removing mini-shampoos from hotel rooms won’t save the environment // Quartz Professor Yossi Sheffi examines the environmental impact of hotels replacing small cosmetic items with more efficient bulk items. Full story via Quartz → |
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| An MIT spinout providing app-based mental health coaching raises $35M // TechCrunch MIT startup Ginger “works with organizations and their health care providers to provide employees with an app-based way to connect with coaches to talk through their issues and suggest ways forward.” Full story via TechCrunch → |
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| How student loan debt is kicking retirement for boomers, Gen X, millennials, and Gen Z to the curb // Forbes “[I]f one’s loan obligations extend all the way into retirement age, then the time to begin saving may never arrive,” writes AgeLab Director Joseph Coughlin. Full story via Forbes → |
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| Globalization may be changing the fundamentals of economics // Axios A paper by Professor Kristin Forbes finds that the increased impact of globalization on the rate of inflation will affect everything from government policy to stock market returns. Full story via Axios → |
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| | | Left to right: David Autor, Elisabeth Reynolds, and David Mindell presented an MIT Work of the Future Task Force report at the National Press Club in Washington. “Automation will transform our work, our lives, our society,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif said in his introductory remarks. “Whether the outcome is inclusive or exclusive, fair or laissez-faire, is up to us — all of us.” Watch the briefing → |
| | | | | If anyone in our office ever advocated for a mediocre applicant on the basis of their ‘excellent pedigree’ they would be kicked out of the committee room. So to be clear: If you got into MIT, it’s because you got into MIT. Simple as that. | | —Chris Peterson, senior assistant director of MIT Admissions, as quoted in a New York Times editorial regarding legacy admissions in higher education Full story via The New York Times → |
| | | This year’s Demo Day for the MIT delta v summer accelerator gave entrepreneurs a chance to celebrate the progress they’ve made. “Today is my favorite day of the year,” said Bill Aulet, managing director of the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship, in his opening remarks. “Changing agriculture, changing health care, changing urban environments. That’s what we’re here to celebrate: these 100 people that will change the world and set a gold standard.” Full story via MIT News → |
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