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Commencement speaker says the greatest opportunities are for humans, not technology.
Reif urges graduates to “find your calling. Solve the unsolvable. Invent the future. Take the high road.”
Candis Callison SM ’02, PhD ’10, professor and journalist, tells doctoral graduates they can “shift society” for the better.
Historic building would create “design hub” for MIT, with benefits for surrounding community.
Visit follows renewal of popular MIT Portugal Program.
A new daughter helped Alejandra Falla PhD ’18 gain perspective on life — and her tiny MIT regalia stole the show at Commencement.
Term members will each serve one, three, or five years on MIT’s board of trustees.
The Economist spotlights the experience of several MIT graduates who have started their own companies in a piece about teaching entrepreneurship. The Economist notes that MIT alumna Bilikiss Adebiyi-Abiola credits a course she took at MIT with helping her, “gain confidence in pitching to a room full of investors.”
Institute Prof. Sheila Widnall co-chaired a new report from the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine, which examines the prevalence of sexual harassment in higher ed. The authors “call for a ‘systemwide change to the culture and climate in higher education’ in order to address the issue and prevent harassment,” report Ellie Kaufman and Evan Simko-Bednarski for CNN.
Boston Globe reporter Sophia Eppolito writes that during MIT’s 2018 Commencement exercises, speakers stressed the importance of uniting to create a better world. “We all strive to see the world, not as a zero-sum game, but as positive-sum — as a world where generous collaboration makes each collaborator smarter, stronger, and richer in every way,” said MIT President L. Rafael Reif.
Abigail Hess of CNBC writes that MIT has been named the best university in the world by QS for the seventh consecutive year in a row. “No other university has managed such a long run at the top,” notes Hess.
Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers; prototype to be installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant.
Faculty from across the Institute tapped to lead new initiative in human and machine intelligence.
PhD candidate and Amazon Robotics Challenge winner Maria Bauza helps to improve how robots interact with the world.
Wireless smart-home system from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could monitor diseases and help the elderly “age in place.”
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