| Enhanced Vigilance | | | | | | MIT neuroscientists have found a brain circuit that may alert us to potential threats. Dopamine is key to the process: Released in the prefrontal cortex when danger is perceived, it then primes another area of the brain for enhanced vigilance. When off-balance, the circuit may trigger anxious or paranoid behavior. Full story via MIT News → |
| Kevin Flike MBA ’16: Wounded, but not broken “There is always a light at the end of the tunnel,” says Flike, a former member of the U.S. Special Forces, “no matter how dark it might seem.” Full story | Watch the video → | |
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| Chemical synthesis could produce more potent antibiotics A simple method for linking molecules could help overcome drug-resistant infections. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Giving early-career women in mechanical engineering tools to succeed in academia The Department of Mechanical Engineering hosts its first Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Engineering the perfect bagel MIT Sloan MBA candidate Milena Pagán ’11 is using her chemical engineering background to craft artisan bagels. Full story via Slice of MIT → | |
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| MIT seeks campus and alumni input on new college Opportunities and new challenges were at the forefront of discussions about the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| The problem with the way we envision retirement // Forbes An MIT AgeLab survey finds that many Americans have unrealistic expectations for retirement. Full story via Forbes → |
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| Researchers created an “AI physicist” // Motherboard MIT researchers developed an artificial intelligence system that can generate theories about physical laws of imaginary universes. The system could be used to study massively complex datasets. Full story via Motherboard → |
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| Semiretirement is treating me well — and it made room for a younger scientist // Science Richard Larson writes about his decision to enter semiretirement as a professor, post-tenure, at MIT. Full story via Science → |
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| Tips for female MBA grads seeking mentors // Financial Times “One of the greatest things women can do to support each other is to become mentors and bring up the women behind them,” writes Maura Herson, assistant dean of the MIT Sloan MBA Program. Full story via Financial Times → |
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| | | Twice a year, the setting sun lines up with MIT’s Infinite Corridor so that sunlight beams through the windows of Building 7 and illuminates the corridor all the way to Building 8. It’s a phenomenon known as “MIThenge,” and it’s slated to happen again (weather permitting) over the next few days. Dan Falk, former fellow in the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT, created this video in 2011 to explain the ’Tute’s unique celestial phenomenon. Watch the video on YouTube → |
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