| Love at MIT | | | | | | Larissa Nietner SM ’14 PhD ’17 and Scott Nill SM ’14 PhD ’18 fell in love while studying mechanical engineering and were married last spring, just before receiving their MIT doctorates. In between their first meeting at the Thirsty Ear pub and their current postdoctoral positions at MIT Sloan, the couple also started two companies together. “One of the best parts of being married to someone who has been through the MIT PhD program is you have an immense amount of understanding and empathy for what the other person is going through,” Nill says. Full story via MIT News → |
| President Reif calls for federal funding, focused education to address “opportunity and threat” of artificial intelligence In a Financial Times op-ed, the MIT president says higher education must teach students to be “AI bilingual.” Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Six from MIT elected to the National Academy of Engineering New members have made advances in molecular processes, rheology, computer networking, nanocrystalline metals, affective computing, and semiconductor tech. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Unleashing perovskites’ potential for solar cells Researchers find varying the recipe could bring these materials closer to commercialization. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| From summer research program to PhD dissertation Graduate student Raspberry Simpson’s scientific journey comes full circle. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Acoustic waves can monitor stiffness of living cells A new technique sheds light on cells’ health and development and may be useful for precision medicine. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Do women really care about pants pockets? // The Boston Globe MIT startup Radian Jeans is developing women’s jeans with functional pockets. Full story via The Boston Globe → |
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| How to solve gender and racial bias in artificial intelligence // TIME “By working to reduce the exclusion overhead and enabling marginalized communities to engage in the development and governance of AI, we can work toward creating systems that embrace full spectrum inclusion,” writes graduate student Joy Buolamwini. Full story via TIME → |
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| Paranoid about tainted lettuce? There could be an app for that one day // CBS This Morning MIT researchers have developed a system that uses wireless signals to detect contamination in food. Full story via CBS This Morning → |
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| Keeping artists’ workspaces front and center // WBUR Graduate students Stephanie Lee and Ellen Shakespear discuss Spaceus, a collaborative work and exhibition space they created for artists in the greater Boston area. Full story via WBUR → |
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| | | Valentine’s Day 2019 has come and gone, but it’s always a perfect day to profess your love, perhaps irrationally, for a constant like pi. Enjoy this poignant love poem from nuclear science and engineering graduate student Amelia Trainer ’18. Watch the video via YouTube → |
| | | | | I really wanted the girls to have this empowering experience where their voices and their skills could be put to help people. | | —Evelyn Gomez ’10, on joining DIY Girls, an organization supporting girls in STEM by teaching them to make solar-powered tents for individuals without homes Full story via WBUR → |
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