| New Year’s Traditions | | | | | More than 3,000 of MIT’s students come from countries other than the U.S., bringing with them a variety of traditions for ringing in the new year. The International Students Association wishes everyone in the MIT community a joyful, peaceful 2022! |
| MIT’s top research stories of 2021 |
Last year’s popular research stories included a promising new approach to cancer immunotherapy, the confirmation of a 50-year-old theorem, and a major fusion breakthrough. |  |
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| MIT community in 2021: A year in review Top Institute stories dealt with the return to campus and continued response to Covid-19, MIT’s commitments to climate action, its support of our diverse community, and more. |  |
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| Visualizing atom arrangements MIT.nano is home to a microscope capable of visualizing atoms within a material. |  |
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| Kerstin Perez is searching the cosmos for signs of dark matter “There need to be more building blocks than the ones we know about,” says the particle physicist. |  |
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| MIT community members celebrated in Forbes 30 Under 30 for 2022 Nearly 30 MIT alumni, students, faculty, postdocs, and researchers under 30 years of age are recognized for innovations in 20 categories. |  |
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| Opinion: Four lessons Gen Z and Millennials can learn from Betty White about longevity, work, and retirement // Forbes “We will all miss Betty White,” writes Joseph Coughlin, director of the MIT AgeLab. “However, if we only remember her lifetime of work for the smiles that she brought to our faces, we may have missed her finest role — how to live a long life, well.” |
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| Is artificial intelligence about to transform the mammogram? // The Washington Post Professor Regina Barzilay and graduate student Adam Yala developed an AI system called Mirai that could transform how breast cancer is diagnosed, “an innovation that could seriously disrupt how we think about the disease.” |
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| Bitcoin’s “1 percent” controls lion’s share of the cryptocurrency’s wealth // The Wall Street Journal A study co-authored by Professor Antoinette Schoar finds the “top Bitcoin holders control a greater share of the cryptocurrency than the most affluent American households control in dollars.” |
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| The next generation of business leaders is entering a changed world of work. Will their education prepare them? // The Boston Globe |
MIT Sloan School of Management is offering a virtual speaker series focused on preparing students for a changing work and business landscape. |
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| | | Can you spot the Brass Rat in space? NASA astronaut Raja Chari SM ’01, a graduate of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, recently shared these photos from the Cupola of the International Space Station, where he is currently stationed! Along with Chari’s MIT Brass Rat, you can see his mission patches as commander of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission and as member of ISS Expedition 66. |
 | | | | Everybody should be concerned that this is not an isolated event, and the next one could be much more damaging. I think the only good thing that has come out is that hopefully people are becoming a little bit better informed, and recognizing that a broad reassessment of where we are is necessary. | | —Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu, reflecting on the future of democracy following the U.S. Capitol invasion of Jan. 6, 2021 |
| IAP at MIT | | | Independent Activities Period (IAP) is a time for exploration of a wide variety of academic and non-academic topics by all members of the MIT community. IAP offerings are distinguished by their innovative, playful spirit and fusion of fun and learning. During IAP, students, faculty, staff, and alumni can organize, sponsor, and participate in a wide variety of activities.
IAP 2022 began Monday and ends on Jan. 28. For those wanting to participate, please note that IAP will move forward in a modified fashion this year, with reduced density on campus due to the highly transmissable Omicron Covid-19 variant.
Learn more via the Experiential Learning Office→ |
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