| Machine Learning Meets Epidemiology | | | | | | Engineers have created a model that uses Covid-19 data in conjunction with a neural network to assess quarantine measures and better predict viral spread. The model, refined in class 2.168 (Learning Machines), is the first to integrate machine learning and epidemiology. |
| Ten from MIT awarded 2020 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans The $90,000 merit-based fellowship funds graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants. |  |
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| How a Cambridge biotech firm is racing toward a Covid-19 vaccine |
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In a recent MIT Sloan webcast, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel described the dire economic model for vaccine development and his firm’s hope for a Covid-19 vaccine later this year. |  |
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| 3 Questions: Charles Stewart on the Covid-19 pandemic’s impact on the 2020 elections |
Head of the MIT Election Data and Science Lab discusses the greatest risks, voting by mail, zombies, and asteroids. |  |
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| Helping K-12 students overcome school closures CovEducation matches college students with younger learners to facilitate online learning. |  |
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Professor Emeritus Arnold Demain, a pioneer in the development of antibiotics, dies at 92 An eminent microbiologist, Demain conducted groundbreaking antibiotics research and mentored hundreds of young scientists. He died from complications of Covid-19. |  |
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| Targeted social distancing — the way to reopen the economy and keep it open // The Boston Globe |
Professors Simon Johnson and Retsef Levi explore how the U.S. can prepare to safely reopen the economy without reigniting another wave of Covid-19 infections. |
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| Many parts of America have already decided to sacrifice the elderly // The Washington Post Joseph Coughlin, director of the Age Lab, and Luke Bryant Yoquinto, an Age Lab research associate, examine how patchwork social distancing regulations in certain areas of the U.S. have put vulnerable populations at risk. |
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| Physical distancing doesn’t stop one Arlington toddler from living adventurously, one page at a time // The Boston Globe Every morning, a local toddler is greeted with a new adventure, and a new page in an ongoing story, thanks to the efforts of Deborah Douglas, director of collections for the MIT Museum. |
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| Researchers rush to fill gap in ventilator supply // ABC News MIT researchers have developed an inexpensive alternative to a traditional ventilator that could be rapidly manufactured. “Our goal is to provide the best research information as fast as we can and share that so that partners around the world can scale up and take this through,” explains Research Scientist Nevan Hanumara. |
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| Making a Better World From Afar | | |
| | | Dispersed by Covid-19, junior Afeefah Khazi-Syed and senior Jeba Sania remain committed to making the world a better place. Sania, who calls STEM “the closest thing we have to superpowers,” adds: “I can save the world from my living room.” |
| | | MIT Medical recently announced the opening of the Sean Collier Care Center, a fully licensed 75-bed facility for patients with Covid-19. Located on the MIT campus and named for fallen MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was killed in the line of duty on April 18, 2013, the center will provide care for members of the MIT community and the broader Cambridge community. |
| | | The MIT community, like most of the world, is scattered and distancing due to the Covid-19 pandemic. A new video series features check-ins with MIT community members wherever they happen to be right now. Here, Mary Beth Gallagher, from MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, checks in with Professor Anette “Peko” Hosoi, the associate dean for engineering in MIT’s School of Engineering. They chat about staying connected, innovating to solve problems, and why “MIT was made for this.” |
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