| Welcome, MIT.nano | | | | | Officially opening next week, MIT.nano is the largest, most sophisticated, and most accessible nanotechnology facility at any U.S. university. Vice President for Research Maria Zuber calls it “a game-changer for the MIT research enterprise.” |
| John Deutch endows MIT Institute Professorship Honoring MIT and its community, Institute Professor Emeritus John M. Deutch ’61, PhD ’65 has made a generous endowment gift to name an MIT Institute Professorship. |  |
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| How Earth sheds heat into space New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming. |  |
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| Math Prize for Girls competition helps to close the gender gap in mathematics MIT hosts the 10th annual contest encouraging STEM careers for female middle and high school students. |  |
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| Plug-and-play technology automates chemical synthesis System makes it easier to produce new molecules for myriad applications. |  |
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| At-cost grocery pilot opens in Walker Memorial 🍉 TechMart store for students, located on the second floor in Rebecca’s Café, was recommended by the Food Insecurity Solutions Working Group. |
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| Students compete in global competition inside a glass cube at MIT // WHDH As part of the InCube entrepreneurial challenge, five MIT students spent four days living and working in a glass cube to develop the ambulance of the future. |
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| Dana-Farber and MIT target pancreatic cancer // Boston Herald A new lab at MIT, led by Prof. Tyler Jacks, will investigate how the immune system can be used to treat and manage pancreatic cancer. |
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| Getting into bed with Skynet // The New York Times A robotic furniture system from MIT spinout Ori, which reconfigures itself with the push of a button or voice commands, could be a solution for those living in small spaces. |
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| Picking apart fireflies’ glow — for science // STAT Prof. Jing-Ke Weng’s lab at the Whitehead Institute has mapped a firefly genome to understand how the insects evolved to glow. The findings may lead to better tools to study and treat disease. |
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Name: Patrick McAtamney
Affiliation: Technical instructor and manager of the Area 51 Student Machine Shop
Hometown: Hampton, New Hampshire
Years at MIT: 17
Most influential teacher: Mr. Martin at Greater Lawrence Technical School
Hobby: Golf. Love it!
Best past Halloween costume: I wrote “GO CEILING” on a T-shirt and went as a ceiling fan
Proud MIT moment: When the MIT Motorsports team cheered Carnegie Mellon after receiving a controversial penalty and dropping from 1st to 4th place
Secret superpower: I can sleep anywhere
Favorite thing about MIT: Working with the students |
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 | | | | Chemical engineering is a field in which you can achieve a huge amount with respect to giving to others and creating solutions [for] the greater world. | | —Paula Hammond, David H. Koch Professor in Engineering and head of the MIT Department of Chemical Engineering, in a recent podcast on the benefits of chemical engineering and of diversity in STEM |
| | | The MIT Student Lending Art Program is a unique program that gives students the opportunity to live with a museum-quality work of art for an academic year. Works from the MIT List Visual Arts Center collection are distributed through a lottery. For grad student Rachel Insoft, seen here with her first-choice artwork (“Ray Cat” by William Wegman), getting to borrow a museum-quality print “makes me feel like my space is more of a home.” This year, over 900 students participated in the lottery, with over 650 receiving art to take home. |
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