MIT News Newsletter

	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
March 16, 2016
MIT News: around campus
A weekly digest of the Institute’s community news

U.S. News gives top rankings to MIT graduate programs in engineering, business

MIT is home to No. 1 graduate engineering program; MIT Sloan is No. 5 business school.

U.S., EU leaders talk Web policy and world economy at MIT

With EU vice president, U.S. secretary of commerce discusses EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield” and launches new policy program.

MIT offers admissions decisions to the Class of 2020

MIT admits 1,485 students from 49 states and 65 countries; "Star Wars"-themed video continues a lighthearted admissions tradition.

A hands-on approach to art, math, and community

Senior YQ Lu finds new ways to combine math and paper art, shares his passion for both.

Administration addresses student recommendations

Earliest actions on inclusiveness will focus on orientation, mental health counseling, student surveys.

Frank Perkins, professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering, dies at 82

Longtime professor and former dean for graduate education had lasting impacts on civil engineering and teaching at MIT.

In the Media

On CBS This Morning, Prof. John Leonard weighed in on “Deflategate,” validating a local student's experiment that showed how cold weather causes a football to lose pressure. "It's just basic laws of physics, it doesn't matter if you root for the Patriots, or the Eagles, or the Redskins, this is what happens to footballs in cold weather," Leonard said.

Reuters reporter Dustin Volz writes that during an MIT event, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker announced that the U.S. will begin sending digital trade experts to foreign markets. Pritzker also “discussed the Privacy Shield and other issues facing the transatlantic digital economy with Andrus Ansip, vice president of the European Commission's digital single market.”

Washington Post reporter Scott Clement compares the results of an analysis performed by MIT researchers of key issues on Twitter in the 2016 presidential race to a national survey. The researchers found that foreign policy and race are key issues on Twitter, while the national survey found that the economy and jobs were top priorities for voters.