| Changing Careers | | | | | | MIT Technology Review recently profiled five alumni who radically rethought their careers — and aren’t looking back. “I definitely see more career changes and people carving out niches for themselves,” says Ann Guo ’98, MEng ’99, now a career coach. |
| In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat A newly identified process could explain a variety of natural phenomena and enable new approaches to desalination. |  |
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| Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide The approach directly converts the greenhouse gas into formate, a solid fuel that can be stored indefinitely and could be used to heat homes or power industries. |  |
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| MIT’s Justin Yu wins Classic Tetris World Championship In a Q&A, the MIT junior describes how all the pieces fell into place as he captured the Tetris world title. |  |
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| Innovating for health equity As an engineer and an EMT, senior Abigail Schipper works to make medicine more accessible to all. |  |
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| The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do Two studies find “self-supervised” models, which learn about their environment from unlabeled data, can show activity patterns similar to those of the mammalian brain. |  |
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| Designing cleaner vehicles Graduate student Adi Mehrotra ’22 is developing sustainable solutions in vehicle design. |  |
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| This liquid crystal fabric is “smart” enough to adapt to the weather // Popular Science MIT researchers developed a programmable, shape-changing smart fiber called FibeRobo that can change its structure in response to hot or cold temperatures. |
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| The Jurassic Park of perfume, this brand taps DNA of extinct flowers for its fragrances // Forbes Jasmina Aganovic ’09 founded Future Society, a brand that uses sequenced DNA from extinct flowers to create new scents. |
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| Why you can understand what your baby is trying to say // Newsweek Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have found that an adult’s ability to “parse the early attempts of children to talk may also help the children learn how to speak properly faster.” |
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| How quantum “squeezing” will help LIGO detect more gravitational waves // Science News By employing a new technology called frequency-dependent squeezing, LIGO detectors should be able to identify about 60 more collisions between massive objects like neutron stars and black holes than before the upgrade. |
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| Planning Just Indigenous Futures | | |
| | | To mark National American Indian Heritage Month, we highlight the latest issue of Projections, the journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, published annually by the MIT Press. Edited by doctoral candidate Kevin Lujan Lee (Chamoru), Daniel Engelberg PhD ’23, and yəhaẃ Indigenous Creatives Collective, the newest issue engages and centers the voices of Indigenous scholars, community leaders, and artists — alongside non-Indigenous scholars — to support visions of planning practice that are meaningfully aligned with contemporary Indigenous movements for resurgence, sovereignty, and life. |
| 950,000 | | Number of MIT Open Learning Library learners from 228 countries around the globe |
| | | Now on view in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery in Building W20: Come Back and Tell Me Why Things Last, by architecture graduate students Lauren Gideonse and Adriana Giorgis. The exhibit, which explores factors that affect building lifespan in the U.S., was the product of two long road trips through the American landscape with the route shaped to pass particularly old and materially significant buildings. It was also reinforced by the artists’ ongoing collaboration with Boston Building Resources, a local building material reuse non-profit. |
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