| Preserving Language | | | | | The MIT Indigenous Languages Initiative provides tools to help graduates keep their communities’ threatened languages alive. For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Roger Paul SM ’20 penned this expression of gratitude in Passamaquoddy, around the MIT theme of “mind, hand, and heart.” |
| Scientists chart how exercise affects the body A new study maps the genes and cellular pathways that contribute to exercise-induced weight loss. |  |
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| MIT events illuminate a critical need for menstruation science |
More than 300 people take part in events to discuss the emerging new field and to help destigmatize the study of menstruation. |  |
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| SMART researchers develop a quick test to determine immunity against Covid-19 Measuring a person’s antibodies, the test requires a drop of blood and takes just 10 minutes to show results. |  |
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| A diploma, a discovery, and an historic legacy The restored diploma of Robert Robinson Taylor, MIT’s first Black graduate — presented by his great-granddaughter Valerie Jarrett — highlights connections between the Institute and Tuskegee University. |  |
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| Two winners of 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry have MIT roots K. Barry Sharpless is a former chemistry faculty member, while Carolyn Bertozzi is the daughter of Professor Emeritus William Bertozzi and a Lemelson-MIT Prize winner. |  |
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| Opinion: Hurricane Ian reminds us of three retirement risks few consider // Forbes Joseph Coughlin, MIT AgeLab director, outlines three risk factors to consider when planning where to live in retirement. “Retirement planning can’t control the weather,” he writes. “However, critically and realistically assessing our personal resilience and how to best prepare for the possible risks of where I live is a critical element to thinking about how I will live in older age.” |
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| “Life is Hard” is a consoling guide to this vale of tears // The Economist |
In his new book, “Life is Hard: How Philosophy Can Help Us Find Our Way,” Professor Kieran Setiya “aims to show how living well and hardship can go together.” The Economist notes that: “Attentive readers of this humane, intelligent book will come away with a firmer grasp and better descriptions of whatever it is that ails them or those they cherish.” |
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| Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to three scientists for work exploring quantum weirdness // The New York Times Professor David Kaiser discusses the significance of Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser, and Anton Zeilinger’s work conducting experiments concerning quantum entanglement, for which they were honored with the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. “Clauser got a lot of pushback from scientists who didn’t think this was even part of science,” said Kaiser. “He had to have a lot of stick-to-itiveness to publish his result.” |
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| New MIT Museum glimpses the future and examines school’s past // The Boston Globe The new MIT Museum, a “purpose-built exhibition and gathering space in the heart of Kendall Square ... seeks to demystify some of the school’s opaque inner workings, makes itself broadly approachable with expanded gallery space, forum areas, learning labs, and a maker hub where visitors can work on museum-led projects.” MIT Museum Director John Durant explains: “We want people to feel that this is their museum.” |
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| | | Oct. 9 is National Nanotechnology Day — the day that shines a light on the potential of nanoscale discoveries and innovations to help solve some of the biggest challenges facing society. This year, MIT.nano has produced a coloring book highlighting MIT scientists and engineers who are working to make our world a better place by exploring solutions to challenges in health, climate, and energy and by discovering new possibilities in computing, communications, materials, manufacturing, and more — all through the power of nanotechnology. |
| | | Presented by the MIT Museum, the always popular Cambridge Science Festival returns in person this week, with free events celebrating science in our community, around the world, and beyond. Activities include performances, demonstrations, workshops, experiments, lectures, walking tours, VR experiences, talkbacks, runway shows, meet-and-greets, trivia, tastings, immersive installations, interactive presentations, robots, competitions, give-aways, keynote speakers, and much more. |
| | | “Contact: Arcs of Relation” is a sprawling exhibition currently on display at moCa Cleveland by artist and MIT Professor Renée Green. “Contact” interweaves and places in conversation Green’s own works with a vast array of invited participants with whom she’s been in conversation through the years, spanning many locations and times — including those who inhabited and passed through MIT during the last decade of Green’s ongoing engagement with the Art, Culture, and Technology program. |
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