| Accelerating Climate Action | | | | | | MIT has released an ambitious new plan for action to address the world’s accelerating climate crisis. “Our approach is to build on what the MIT community does best — and then aspire for still more,” says Vice President for Research Maria Zuber. Full story via MIT News → |
| “Just ask questions and go for it!” Senior Zaina Moussa’s path toward a career as a physician-scientist has included embracing her different cultures and varied interests. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| A comprehensive map of the SARS-CoV-2 genome MIT researchers have determined the virus’ protein-coding gene set and analyzed new mutations’ likelihood of helping the virus adapt. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Robert C. Merton honored with MIT’s Killian Award Finance scholar is granted highest distinction offered by Institute faculty. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Saving the radome Student-led efforts preserve an iconic campus landmark for future generations of education and research. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Six from MIT named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars |
Fellowship funds graduate studies at Stanford University. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Jobless benefits don’t make people “lazy,” Nobel Laureate Esther Duflo says // The New York Times Professor Esther Duflo discusses her views on GDP, financial incentives, and how to encourage women to pursue careers in economics. “One of the mistakes made by economists in general was to agree collectively that GDP, and perhaps the stock market, is how we acknowledge success in a country,” says Duflo. “GDP measures the value added in a country, but life is so much more than that.” Full story via The New York Times→ |
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| Wow! MIT’s color-changing paint could make your iPhone look different every day // Fast Company MIT researchers have developed a new light-sensitive paint, dubbed ChromoUpdate, that makes it easy for people to change the color and pattern on a wide variety of objects. Full story via Fast Company→ |
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| This is your brain under anesthesia // Wired Research by professors Emery Brown and Earl Miller examines how neurons in the brain operate as “consciousness emerges and recedes — and how doctors could better control it.” The work “could make anesthesia safer, by allowing anesthesiologists who use the EEG to more precisely control drug dosages for people who are unconscious.” Full story via Wired→ |
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| The power of pre-K // The New York Times A study co-authored by MIT researchers examining the short- and long-term effects of Boston’s universal public preschool program finds that pre-K has a substantial impact on student behavior. Pre-K seems to “improve children’s social and emotional skills and help them mature more than it helps in a narrow academic sense.” Full story via The New York Times→ |
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| | | The Music Unites: Songs for Equity (MUSE) project is an initiative by Cello World and the MIT Ribotones to highlight the works of Black composers. The latest performance, by the Chorallaries of MIT, features a song by singer and songwriter Amber Mark. View other MUSE Project performances→ |
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