MIT News Newsletter

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
November 8, 2017
MIT News: around campus
A weekly digest of the Institute’s community news

MIT joins court brief in support of “Dreamers”

Legal filing is part of larger set of Institute actions to aid DACA students.

“A good negotiator can be exactly who you are"

Bruno Verdini leads a popular new class on negotiation skills.

Connecting through conversation

Whether in Cambridge or Shanghai, MIT senior Joshua Charles Woodard seeks to learn from others’ perspectives and challenge his own.

Strong current of energy runs through MIT

Research, education, and student activities help create a robust community focused on fueling the world's future.

Fighting a giant foe at a tiny scale

Professor Paula Hammond uses nanoscale biomaterials to craft anti-cancer treatments tiny enough to get through the bloodstream and enter tumors.

3 Questions: Joseph Coughlin on innovation for an aging population

New book, “The Longevity Economy,” calls for rethinking our ideas about what the elderly can do.

In the Media

In an article for The New York Times, graduate student Yonah Freemark writes that making city streets safer can help protect pedestrians and cyclists from careless and malicious drivers. “The side effects of a pedestrian-focused strategy are overwhelmingly positive, even setting aside the lowered potential for death. Air quality improves, people exercise more, neighborhood business expands.”

In an article for USA Today, Nick Som highlights six must-see, mid-century college campus buildings, including the MIT Chapel. Som writes that the chapel is “stunning. The undulating walls of the chapel’s interior are devoid of windows, save for a single domed skylight on the ceiling.”

Prof. Yossi Sheffi writes for The Wall Street Journal that students should be learning soft skills such as communications, leadership and teamwork, tools that are necessary for managing organizations and supply-chains successfully. Sheffi writes that, “professionals need to hone their ability to communicate with people working across a wide range of disciplines and a variety of geographies.”

In an article for The Washington Post, Prof. Marcia Bartusiak writes about Scott Kelly’s new memoir of his record-setting year on the International Space Station. Bartusiak writes that the book, “offers Earthlings an informative and gripping look at both the adventures and day-by-day experiences of living in a metal container that is orbiting Earth at 17,500 mph.”