MIT News Newsletter

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 30, 2016
MIT News: around campus
A weekly digest of the Institute’s community news

Four MIT students named 2017 Marshall Scholars

Matthew Cavuto, Zachary Hulcher, Kevin Zhou, and Daniel Zuo will pursue two years of study in the U.K.

New Kendall Wi-Fi supports Kendall Square and nearby residential areas

Free high-speed outdoor internet service implemented by MIT and partners.

3Q: Dennis Frenchman on the rise of innovation districts in Cambridge and beyond

MIT professor explains how “productive neighborhoods” can remake cities.

Lauren Uhr: a brain researcher motivated by personal experience

MIT senior studies cognitive science and medicine from the vantage point of a person with dyslexia.

MIT Reads hosts author Janet Mock

Shared reading sparks timely conversation about gender, race, and community.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory garners six 2016 R&D 100 Awards

Innovations in air traffic safety, biomedical devices, and magnetic field detection earn accolades.

In the Media

WGBH reporter Kirk Carapezza explores MIT’s MicroMasters program in Supply Chain Management, which allows students to complete a master’s degree through online and on-campus courses. Student Danaka Porter explains that the program provides an opportunity to “get education from a fantastic university, as well as be able to continue to keep working.”

Chris Bourg, director of the MIT Libraries, speaks with Carl Straumsheim of Inside Higher Ed about the MIT report on the future of libraries, which presents a “vision of the library as an ‘open global platform’.” Bourg notes that “providing access to credible information and the tools to assess, use, understand and exploit it…is more important than ever now.”

Prof. Thomas Kochan writes for The Huffington Post that a new social contract is needed in America to ensure that the economy works for everyone. Kochan writes that “America needs to build a new social contract based on mutual respect and attuned to the needs of today’s workforce and economy.”