MIT News Newsletter

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
July 12, 2018
MIT News: around campus
A weekly digest of the Institute’s community news

The city is her lab

Siqi Zheng studies the economics of China’s urban explosion.

Making nuclear energy safer and more affordable

Galvanized by the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disasters, PhD student Xingang Zhao envisions a future with safe, efficient nuclear power.

Ties with MIT run deep for the US Navy’s top officer

Chief of Naval Operations Admiral John Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 poses global challenges to academe.

Dynamic duo

Incoming first-year students Malik and Miles George double down on their dream of attending MIT.

Attention new moms: A way to make more milk with less pain

Alumna-founded LiLu promises to make life as a new mom easier by making breast pumping more comfortable and more productive.

Institute Archives spotlights pioneering women at MIT

Initiative is building collections highlighting the contributions of female faculty.

In the Media

Reporting for WBUR, Bruce Gellerman highlights how MIT Solve brings together innovators to tackle some of the world’s pressing challenges. "Putting your money where your social values are and making connections is what Solve is all about," observes Gellerman.

MIT graduate students Ellen Shakespear and Stephanie Lee are opening “an artist workspace and exhibition pop-up,” known as Spaceus, in the historic Roslindale substation, reports Jules Struck for Boston Magazine. The startup, which is partly funded by MIT, “provides a sustainable service to local artists, but also serves as a neighborhood gathering place,” according to Lee.

Prof. John Bush speaks with Popular Science reporter Dyani Sabin about the physics behind bending a soccer ball like a World Cup player. “The physics is rather complicated honestly, but there are simple ways to explain it,” says Bush. “The reason it looks mysterious is because you can’t see what the surrounding fluid, in this case air, is doing.”