| MIT's Approach to Covid-19 | | | | Student move-in has begun for the fall semester, with new Covid-19 protocols in place. | | Extensive modeling by MIT’s Isolat group has helped shape the Institute’s Covid-19 policies, including procedures for returning to campus this fall. “I believe that we are a generous community and that we will be willing to take precautions to help keep each other healthy,” says Associate Dean of Engineering Peko Hosoi. Full story via MIT News → |
| Countering climate change with cool pavements Researchers affiliated with the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub find that paving material selection could mitigate extreme heat and greenhouse gas emissions. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| A pivot from accounting to neuroscience Through a summer research program at MIT, Patricia Pujols explored the neuromuscular junction, and a future in science. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| 3 Questions: Martin Schmidt on MIT’s Strategic Action Plan for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion MIT’s provost discusses how community building, collaboration, accountability, and critical investments will build a more impactful MIT. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Inflatable robotic hand gives amputees real-time tactile control |
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Prosthetic enables a wide range of daily activities, such as zipping a suitcase, shaking hands, and petting a cat. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| 3Q: Lynsey Ford on fostering confidence, passion for science, and student-centered learning The SEED Academy program administrator describes how she and her colleagues help middle and high school students see why “science makes the world magic.” Full story via the Office of Engineering Outreach Programs→ | |
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| Opinion: That $56,000 drug? Blame Medicare // The New York Times “Economists tend to favor letting the private sector set prices, but this requires a well-functioning market,” writes Professor Amy Finkelstein of the need to reign in prices of drugs administered by physicians. Full story via The New York Times→ |
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| Barnacle-inspired glue seals bleeding organs in seconds // Wired MIT researchers have developed a glue, inspired by barnacles, that can adhere to wet tissues and stop bleeding nearly instantly. Full story via Wired→ |
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| Opinion: What can we do now to avert the worst climate impacts? // The Hill Sergey Paltsev, deputy director of the MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, examines the findings of the IPCC report on climate change. Full story via The Hill→ |
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| Climate change will disrupt supply chains much more than Covid — here’s how businesses can prepare // CNBC Professor John Sterman discusses how climate change will impact supply chains. Full story via CNBC→ |
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| Recruiting student and teacher voices to rethink schools because of the pandemic // KQED A report co-authored by Associate Professor Justin Reich proposes a path for rethinking K-12 schools after Covid-19. Full story via KQED→ |
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| | | This tranquil view of the Great Dome was captured by physics postdoc and shutterbug Tianyi Han. The Charles River is one of his favorite places to photograph. “I love the sense of seasons changing when I observe the river freezing, the trees blossoming, the full moon rising,” he says. Full story via MIT News→ |
| | | | | I am honored to call myself a pilot and join the ranks of around 200 deaf pilots in the nation. ... My flying experience has motivated me to earn my private pilot license this fall to further challenge myself as a deaf pilot. Continuing my pilot training will raise the visibility and representation of deaf pilots, so others will realize that deaf people can become pilots. |
| | —Sheila Xu ’14, in a recent essay, “A Deaf Pilot’s Path to Aviation” Full essay via the Federal Aviation Administration→ |
| | | In a new study that may help engineers develop a way to inject drugs without needles, MIT researchers fired small jets of water through many kinds of droplets, using high-speed cameras to capture each watery impact. The results were similar to the famous strobe-light photographs of a bullet piercing an apple pioneered by Harold “Doc” Edgerton. With his development of the electronic stroboscope, the inventor, entrepreneur, explorer, and beloved MIT professor succeeded in photographing phenomena that were too bright, dim, fast, or slow to be captured with traditional photography. View the Edgerton Digital Collections→ |
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