December 7, 2019
Greetings! Here’s the latest roundup from the MIT community.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Rhodes Scholars
A record five MIT seniors have been named Rhodes Scholars: Ali Daher, Claire Halloran, Fran Vasconcelos, Billy Woltz, and Megan Yamoah. Three are from the Engineering Quantum Systems group, which studies coherent quantum systems. Each scholar will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall.
Full story via MIT News →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Top Headlines
Achieving heating by cooling in MIT fusion research
Postdoc Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez resolves a fusion paradox that had been unsolved for 20 years.
Full story via MIT News →
 MIT Heat Island
3 Questions: Dan Huttenlocher on the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
The inaugural dean of the college shares an update on the process of building a college.
Full story via MIT News →
 MIT Heat Island
Monthly birth control pill could replace daily doses
A long-lasting capsule can remain in the stomach and release contraceptive drugs over several weeks.
Full story via MIT News →
 MIT Heat Island
Restructuring the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
The Institute's largest academic department reorganizes with new leadership as part of the formation of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing.
Full story via MIT News →
Fueled by the power of stories
A fascination with storytelling led K. Guadalupe Cruz to graduate studies in neuroscience and shapes her work to promote inclusivity at MIT.
Full story via MIT News →
 MIT Heat Island
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#ThisIsMIT
Follow @MIT on Twitter →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
In the Media
Spotlight: Giving workers a nudge // The Boston Globe
MIT’s commuter benefits program is described by the Boston Globe Spotlight Team as a model for other area employers: “No other major Boston-area employers surveyed by Spotlight offer commuter incentives with the scale and sophistication of MIT’s.”
Full story via The Boston Globe →
MIT's breakthrough in propulsion of intraintestinal micromuscular agglomerations // NPR
MIT students Phoebe Li and Amber VanHemel discuss their quest to set a world record for the longest hot dog toss and catch.
Full story via NPR →
The modern life of origami, an art as old as paper // The New York Times
“I want the result to be complex, but I want to simplify the process it takes to get there,” says lecturer Jason Ku of the process of creating origami sculptures.
Full story via The New York Times →
You can now design the perfect plan to end the climate crisis // Fast Company
Researchers from MIT and Climate Interactive have created a climate change simulator that allows users to craft their own climate policy.
Full story via Fast Company →
President Nixon never gave this Apollo 11 disaster speech. MIT brought it to life to illustrate power of deepfakes // WBUR
An immersive art project developed by MIT's Center for Advanced Virtuality aims to spark awareness of deepfake technologies.
Full story via WBUR →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
50 Years of UROP
“Undergraduates should inhabit a very special world,” Margaret MacVicar, founder of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) said in 1969, “that of a moral and intellectual universe with certain fixed stars but also with wide spaces in between where students can find room to wander and make their own paths.”
Watch the video →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Digit
600+
Number of noncredit activities, in approximately 50 categories, offered by and for members of the MIT community during Independent Activities Period in January.
Learn more about IAP →
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Scene at MIT
“Transtectonics” is a new exhibition by Spanish architect and designer Cristina Parreño Alonso, lecturer in the MIT Department of Architecture. Crossing materials and processes, Parreño presents sculptural prototypes that combine natural materials such as glass, stone, wood, and volcanic rock with unexpected craft processes, and juxtaposes them with geological events. The exhibition is on view at MIT’s Keller Gallery (Room 7-408) through Jan. 31, 2020.
Learn more via the Department of Architecture →
This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by even more about that hot dog feat, this time with dinosaurs. 🌭🦖

Thanks for reading, and enjoy your week!

—MIT News Office
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Forward This Email Subscribe
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This email was sent to newsletter@newslettercollector.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters.
subscribe  update preferences  unsubscribe  view in browser
MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA