| New MIT President | | | | | MIT’s 18th president will be Sally Kornbluth, a cell biologist whose eight-year tenure as Duke University’s provost has earned her a reputation as a brilliant administrator and a creative problem-solver. “The ethos of MIT, where groundbreaking research and education are woven into the DNA of the institution, is thrilling to me,” she says. |
| On campus, a warm welcome for MIT’s next president, Sally Kornbluth Kornbluth greeted members of the Institute community at a campus event, outlining her vision and values, and thanking everyone for the reception she has enjoyed. |  |
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| Five with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2022 Professors Mark Bear and Laura Kiessling ’83, along with Krishna Shenoy SM ’92, PhD ’95, David Tuveson ’87, and Martin Burke are among the newly elected members. |  |
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| 3 Questions: Blue hydrogen and the world’s energy systems Research Scientist Emre Gençer describes natural gas–based hydrogen production with carbon capture and storage, and the role hydrogen will play in decarbonizing our energy systems. |  |
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| Bringing it all back home In MIT visit, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf PhD ’81 offers a road map for creating more manufacturing jobs in the U.S. |  |
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| Tackling social issues through engineering and theater Senior Susan Su finds inspiration in both makerspaces and performance spaces. |  |
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| Teenager solves stubborn riddle about prime number look-alikes // Quanta Magazine During his senior year of high school, MIT first-year student Daniel Larsen successfully proved a key theorem about Carmichael numbers, entities that mimic prime numbers. “His proof is really quite advanced,” says Dartmouth Professor Carl Pomerance. “It would be a paper that any mathematician would be really proud to have written.” |
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| Watch two mini cheetah robots square off on the soccer field // TechCrunch MIT researchers detail how they used reinforcement learning to teach MIT’s mini cheetah robot to play goalie in a soccer match. “In this work, we focused solely on the goalkeeping task, but the proposed framework can be extended to other scenarios, such as multi-skill soccer ball kicking,” the researchers explain. |
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| Opinion: As a child in Haiti, I was taught to despise my language and myself // The New York Times Professor Michel DeGraff details how the education system in Haiti discriminates against Kreyòl, forcing children to speak and learn in French, “a legacy of the French colonial design for Haiti’s impoverishment, which continues, centuries later, to drain us as a nation.” DeGraff adds: “Unshackling Haitian minds and society from centuries of linguistic discrimination is the first step to help Haiti overcome the disastrous consequences of its colonial and neocolonial history.” |
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| Sally Kornbluth named next MIT president // The Boston Globe President-elect Sally Kornbluth discusses her hopes and aspirations for her tenure as MIT’s president. “I just want to continue the excellence of MIT,” said Kornbluth. “I hope when I turn my head back down the road some years from now that this will have been viewed as a period of continued excellence, but also of the discovery, innovation, and invention of things that continue to really have a huge impact on the world stage.” |
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| | | On her first day as MIT’s president-elect, Sally Kornbluth was welcomed by faculty, staff, and students at several events, including a morning press conference, a gathering at Gray House, and a community welcoming celebration. She expressed excitement to be joining the “world capital of intellectual fun.” |
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