| Sustainable Construction | | | | | | 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.” Full story via MIT News → |
| MIT’s response to COVID-19 coronavirus: Important new policies President L. Rafael Reif shares new MIT policies and guidelines about travel and events. Full story via MIT News → |
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| 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. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| MIT students dominate the annual Putnam Mathematical Competition |
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Participating MIT students make history by taking all top five spots — the first time this has happened for any school. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2020 The Institute ranks second in five subject areas. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Design, power, and justice In new book “Design Justice,” Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock examines how to make technology work for more people in society. Full story via MIT News → | |
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| Are you an anti-influencer? // The New York Times “[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.” Full story via The New York Times → |
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| A startup offering physician-approved kids shoes that actually fit // Forbes |
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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. Full story via Forbes → |
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| How the world of building materials is responding to climate change // Science Friday Jeremy Gregory, executive director of the MIT Concrete Sustainability Hub, discusses efforts aimed at creating more sustainable concrete and cement. Full story via Science Friday → |
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| Using artificial intelligence to formulate your perfect skin serum // Fast Company |
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MIT startup Atolla aims to leverage “machine learning to deliver personalized skin serums using an individual’s actual skin data.” Full story via Fast Company → |
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| | | 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. Learn more → |
| | From “A Light Exists in Spring” by Emily Dickinson
A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year
At any other period –
When March is scarcely here
A Color stands abroad
On Solitary Fields
That Science cannot overtake
But Human Nature feels...
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