A five-story wooden building in Boston will have net carbon emissions of almost zero. John Klein, an architect on the project, sees the approach as “very competitive with concrete and steel for buildings of between eight and 12 stories.”
MIT Emergency Management establishes COVID-19 planning team and working groups
A campus-wide effort will ensure academic, research, and business continuity, as well as continued medical, residential life, and communications response to the COVID-19 coronavirus.
“[T]here are just some people who, for whatever reason, have consistently nonmajority tastes. They like that odd house. That political candidate everyone else finds off-putting. They like Watermelon Oreos,” says Professor Catherine Tucker of her work with Professor Duncan Simester analyzing the habits of consumers referred to as “harbingers of failure.”
A startup offering physician-approved kids shoes that actually fit // Forbes
Ten Little, a children’s shoe company co-founded by Fatma Collins MBA ’11, is aimed at making it easier for parents to find shoes that fit properly and provide the necessary support.
The Margaret Cheney Room at MIT is a space that supports students including self-identified women, transgender women, and non-binary individuals. The original (seen above) was established in 1884 as a reading room for women at MIT’s first campus in the Back Bay area of Boston. It was named after Margaret Swan Cheney, who studied under instructor Ellen Swallow Richards in the MIT Women’s Laboratory and died in 1882, at age 27, after a brief illness. When MIT moved to Cambridge in 1916, the Margaret Cheney Room moved with it; today it encompasses a series of rooms in 3-310.
