August 4, 2018
Greetings! Here’s a roundup of the latest from the MIT community.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Hot Spot
Climate change could threaten the habitability of one of the most densely populated regions on Earth, according to research from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The North China Plain, which includes China’s agricultural heartland, is projected to be “the hottest spot for deadly heat waves in the future,” says Professor Elfatih Eltahir.
Full story via MIT News →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Top Headlines
Boeing will be Kendall Square Initiative’s first major tenant
New research presence will serve to advance innovation in the aerospace industry and shape East Campus gateway.
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Constantinos Daskalakis wins prestigious Nevanlinna Prize
EECS professor and CSAIL affiliate is honored for his contributions to theoretical computer science.
Full story via MIT News →
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At MIT, a meeting of the minds in world economic history
MIT Prof. Anne McCants describes the major gathering of thinkers in economic, business, and social history, which is convening in the U.S. for first time in 50 years.
Full story via MIT News →
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Inventing future fabrics 👚
Workshop challenges MIT and FIT students to conceive of new concepts in active textiles.
Full story via MIT News →
MIT represents in MIT Technology Review’s 2018 Innovators Under 35 list 🙌
At least 13 from MIT made the list, the strongest showing since Slice of MIT began tracking Institute affiliates.
Full story via Slice of MIT  →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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In the Media
Boeing will lease 100,000 square feet in new Kendall Square building // The Boston Globe
With MIT’s Kendall Square Initiative, “we want to bring corporate partners to the edge of our campus, to facilitate stronger and deeper interactions with our community,” explains Provost Martin Schmidt.
Full story via The Boston Globe →
Science career ads disproportionately seen by men // Scientific American
A study co-authored by Prof. Catherine Tucker finds marketing algorithms prevent many women from seeing STEM career ads.
Full story via Scientific American →
One scientist’s radical idea to engineer mice and stop Lyme disease // CNN
“We want to heritably immunize the local white-footed mice,” says Prof. Kevin Esvelt. “The idea is fewer infected ticks means fewer infected kids.”
Watch the segment via CNN →
Map: How much a single person needs to earn to live comfortably // CNBC
Using data from MIT’s Living Wage Calculator, CNBC Make It has mapped the earnings needed for a single person to live comfortably in every state.
Full story via CNBC →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Meet Your MIT Nieghbor
Name: Jermey Matthews
Affiliation: Acquisitions editor at MIT Press
Years at MIT: 2
Hometown: Georgetown, Guyana
Favorite vacation spot: Vegas
Last cellphone pic: Physicist Carlo Rovelli giving a talk about his newest book
Secret superpower: Making eggs for my daughters
Favorite thing about MIT: No path of inquiry seems off limits to the students and faculty.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ExoArm
A team of high school students in the 2018 MIT Engineering Design Workshop, a program hosted by the Edgerton Center, designed and built a cardboard prototype of an orthotic hand exoskeleton. Their goal was to produce a device that enables patients with limited mobility and strength to pick up objects such as a bottle or a can.
More on the Engineering Design Workshop →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Scene at MIT
“Simmons Hall is a Cubist’s dream,” according to Boston magazine, which featured the MIT dormitory along with the Stata Center, the Great Dome, and the MIT Chapel in a recent “100 Best Buildings in Boston” feature. “The huge geometric masterpiece comes to life at night with the steady blinking of some 5,500 windows, almost like a huge computer modem.” Image: Yu-Pu/Flickr CC BY-NC-SA
Full story via Boston Magazine  →
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