| Virtual Borderline | | | | | The tunnels below buildings 66 and E17 house the more than 60 murals of the Borderline Mural Project. Now the student artists behind the project have developed Tunnel66, a collaborative digital art project aiming to reconnect the MIT community. |
| An innovation plan to beat Covid-19 |
MIT economist Pierre Azoulay outlines a roadmap for scientific success against the virus. |  |
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| The passive house that’s aggressively green A six-story building designed to the “Passive House” standard has gone up in Cambridge. Architect Michelle Apigian MA ’00, MCP ’00 explains why it’s so energy efficient. |  |
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| Susan Solomon earns Killian Award, MIT’s highest faculty honor Atmospheric chemist is recognized for her “leadership in working toward real-world solutions to address the global climate crisis.” |  |
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| “Lean lab” approach enables quick research ramp down MIT lab offers a model for cost savings, productivity, and safety; principles may also facilitate efficient reopening in the future. |
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| Probing reality through physics, philosophy, and writing Senior Michelle Xu’s varied interests all involve a desire to understand the universe. “I was just never particularly picky about which way to figure it out,” she says. |  |
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| A face mask that lights up when it detects the coronavirus // Business Insider |
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Researchers from MIT and Harvard University are developing a face mask that would emit a “fluorescent signal when a person with the coronavirus breathes, coughs, or sneezes.” |
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| Study: Summer’s heat and humidity not going to stop the coronavirus // The Boston Globe |
“Even though high temperatures and humidity can moderately reduce the transmission rates of coronavirus, the pandemic is not likely to diminish solely due to summer weather,” says Associate Professor Hazhir Rahmandad of the MIT Sloan School of Management. |
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| MIT senior reflects while completing spring semester // NECN |
Senior Steven Truong discusses challenges he’s faced during the coronavirus pandemic as well as hopes for the future: “I hope ... we can take this sense and spirit of collaboration and go forward and tackle the hardest problems in society and solve the most pressing issues in the world.” |
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| Five things to do this weekend // WBUR |
Audiences around the world will be able to listen to Professor Tod Machover’s symphony, “Philadelphia Voices,” when it is streamed this weekend on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s website. Machover captured “samplings of cityscapes, vocalizations, and texts from Philadelphians” to create the piece. |
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| | | Join the entire MIT community as we celebrate the Institute’s 2020 Commencement, online on May 29. The program will include an address given by Admiral William McRaven, salutes from student leaders, an extraordinary community-sourced technical music project, a turn of the Brass Rat, and the conferring of degrees. |
| | | Matt Fulton is not used to “rocking out” alone. The MIT facilities and operations administrator usually sings and plays guitar before a full room at Boston’s Green Dragon. At least, he did until bars closed and physical distancing increased in response to Covid-19. Recently he found himself playing for a new audience, his Plasma Science and Fusion Center colleagues, with a Zoom concert of classic favorites. “I was more nervous doing this than I would be playing at the Green Dragon in front of 40 or 50 strangers,” he says. |
| | | A recent episode of BioGenesis, a podcast from the MIT Department of Biology and the Whitehead Institute, features graduate student Sophia Xu, who’s bringing together modern scientific methods and ancient Eastern herbal remedies. She studies fish and plant compounds to investigate how molecules in natural products interact with proteins in the human body — and may even find a cure for hangovers along the way. In this episode you’ll learn about her path to MIT, her research and hobbies 🐉🛶, as well as how she tries to inspire the next generation of biologists. |
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