| Graphene Electrodes | | | | | | Optoelectronic devices that either emit light, like smartphone screens, or harvest it, like solar cells, would benefit from thin, transparent electrodes. They could get a boost from a new way of making large sheets of high-quality, atom-thin graphene. |
| Taking an MIT approach to a return to campus |
Data-informed efforts are contributing to the Institute’s ramp-up strategy. |  |
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| Learning the ropes and throwing lifelines PhD student Geeticka Chauhan draws on her experiences as an international student to strengthen the bonds of her MIT community. |  |
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| MIT, guided by open access principles, ends Elsevier negotiations Institute ends negotiations for a new journals contract in the absence of a proposal aligning with the MIT Framework for Publisher Contracts. |
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| Engineers put tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses on a single chip The design could advance the development of small, portable AI devices. |  |
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| Recent political science graduates see brighter days ahead |
Leveraging unique undergraduate opportunities, new MIT political science alumni pursue bright prospects. |  |
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| It’s called artificial intelligence — but what is intelligence? // Wired |
Professor Joshua Tenenbaum discusses the quest to bring more human-like reasoning and intelligence to AI systems. |
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| Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight // Quartz Assistant Professor Danielle Wood discusses her research aimed at enabling equal access to the benefits of space exploration. “Our team has been doing research that addresses racial inequity,” she says. “You don’t have to leave aerospace to be confident you’re working against injustice, but you do have to change the way you’re doing the aerospace work.” |
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| Museum directors plan for reopening and reinvention, in their own words // The Boston Globe During a virtual roundtable, MIT List Visual Arts Center Director Paul Ha spoke about how museums are being reimagined as they plan to reopen during the Covid-19 pandemic. |
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| For Black families, talking to kids about racism starts early // CBS Boston Author Christine Taylor-Butler ’81 discusses the importance of children’s books in confronting racism. “If we can start flooding these kids with 20 books that are positive images of people who are African-American and LatinX and Native Americans, [they] start to go ‘Wow, those kids are just like me,’” Taylor-Butler says. |
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Staff of the MIT Libraries have compiled a list of books — as well as a handful of films — exploring racial justice and policing, foundations on racism in the U.S., racial justice activism, anti-racism, and whiteness. All are available remotely to the MIT community.
View the resources → |
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 | | | | Injustice after injustice, it’s enough to make us explode. We try to keep on seeing it, even as it breaks our hearts, and carry on. But the all of it feels sometimes like more than we can bear. |
| | —Professor Helen Elaine Lee, director of the MIT Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, in a recent post, “Heartsick. Anguished. Enraged.” |
In a new episode of the Chalk Radio podcast from MIT OpenCourseWare, professor of linguistics Michel DeGraff discusses his goal to connect language to issues of culture and identity — and to show how language prejudices are rooted in hierarchies of power. “Can you be Mauritian but not speak the Mauritian Creole language? Can you be Latino but not be fluent in Spanish? Can you be African American but yet not be fully fluent in so-called Black English?” he asks. “[T]here is perhaps as much misconception about language as there is about race.”
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