| Seeking Value in CO2 | | | | Left to right: Assistant Professor Ariel Furst, undergraduate Rachel Ahlmark, postdoc Gang Fan, and their colleagues are working to convert carbon dioxide into valuable products. | Carbon dioxide is available in abundance, but has not yet been widely used to generate valuable products. MIT chemical engineer Ariel Furst is leading efforts to employ biological materials, including DNA, to transform this widespread waste product. |
| MIT students contribute to the success of an historic fusion experiment Students are part of large team that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory. |  |
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| Analysis of email traffic suggests remote work may stifle innovation At MIT, social networks with “weak ties,” which help foster new ideas, declined during the Covid-19 pandemic, researchers report. |  |
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| Using machine learning to identify undiagnosable cancers A new model that maps developmental pathways to tumor cells may unlock the identity of cancers of unknown primary. |  |
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| Forging political alliances through supply chains International firms sharing production networks lobby together to secure favorable trade conditions. |  |
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| MIT Spokes cycles across the country to teach STEM classes Sore legs, 10 flat tires, and hot temperatures did not deter these MIT students and recent graduates. |  |
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| Opinion: Not quietly quitting but quietly returning, older workers are changing work and retirement // Forbes Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab, explores why many former retirees are returning to the workforce. “These older adults are inventing something that is neither our current idea of retirement or of work,” he writes, “a new life stage altogether that sees the retirement age of today as a mile marker, not an exit.” |
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| NASA’s Artemis moon rocket launch will open new chapter in space exploration, MIT expert says // CBS Boston “It’s very exciting because the last time we were on the moon was during the Apollo years and we didn’t stay. Our current generation has just a vague memory of that,” says Professor Paul Lozano of the Artemis 1 moon mission. “All we learn by going to the moon we can apply to go to other places in the solar system.” |
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| Immigrant Hari Balakrishnan has made roads safer for drivers // Forbes Professor Hari Balakrishnan discusses his decision to leave India to pursue a PhD in computer science in the U.S., his love for teaching students as a professor at MIT and his work co-founding Cambridge Mobile Telematics, a software company that utilizes technology to make roads safer. “Immigration and immigrants make the United States stronger,” says Balakrishnan. |
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| Opinion: America’s seeing a historic surge in worker organizing. Here’s how to sustain it // WBUR Professor Emeritus Thomas Kochan and Wilma Liebman, former chair of the National Labor Relations Board, explore the current rise in worker activism and how to rebalance the relationship between employees and management. |
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| | | We are all rooting for you in this first week of classes, MIT students! Best wishes to you — and to all faculty and staff who support you — for a successful fall term. Image: Jenny Baek |
| | | Retired engineer Lynn Yamada Davis ’77, the social media personality behind the wildly successful “Cooking With Lynja,” was recently named one of Forbes’ 2022 Top Creators. With more than 16 million followers on TikTok and YouTube, Davis, 66, has grown a devoted following by creating delightful, effects-laden videos with her son, Tim. In this interview, she describes her late-in-life success. |
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