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Professor Sangeeta Bhatia’s salute from the faculty

June 4, 2021

Below is the salute to the graduates, as prepared for delivery, by Sangeeta Bhatia SM ’93 PhD ’97, the John J. and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Engineering, for the Institute’s 2021 Commencement, held online today. MIT PhD class of 2021, you did it! You have managed to get over the finish line in a race with obstacles that none of us could have imagined when you started. Institute closing. Remote learning. Research on a shift schedule. In a year of...

On systemic sources of early life stress,...

June 3, 2021

A powerful series of speakers at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory’s biennial Spring Symposium, Early Life Stress and Mental Health, blended personal stories and rigorous research to demonstrate that while remedying the lifelong toxic stress and disadvantage many people incur during childhood can be difficult, it is by no means intractable. Picower Institute Director Li-Huei Tsai opened the symposium, co-produced with the JPB Foundation led by Barbara Picower, with the observation that while problems such as poverty,...

Exploring the future of humanitarian technology

June 3, 2021

The year 2030 serves as the resolution to the United Nation’s Agenda for Sustainable Development. The agenda, adopted in 2015 by all UN member states including the United States, mobilizes global efforts to protect the planet, end poverty, foster peace, and safeguard the rights of all people. Nine years out from the target date, the sustainable development goals of the agenda still remain ambitious, and as relevant as ever. MIT Lincoln Laboratory has been growing its efforts to provide...

Experiential learning through entrepreneurship

June 3, 2021

As senior Gabrielle Finear was pursuing a major in computer science, economics, and data science, she wanted to find a way to apply what she was learning. “I found my major to be incredibly theoretical. Although my coursework provided me with an excellent educational foundation, I didn’t want to graduate without ever having built anything,“ Finear explains. In the spring of her sophomore year, Finear and a friend applied to the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund Program as team Snack...

William Dalzell, influential lecturer in chemical engineering...

June 3, 2021

William H. Dalzell ’58, SM ’60, ScD ’65, a longtime lecturer in chemical engineering at MIT and station director for the David H. Koch School of Chemical Engineering Practice, passed away on April 13 after a protracted battle with cancer. He was 84 years old. The first person in his family to attend college, Dalzell entered MIT in 1954. In an essay for the MIT Office of the First Year, he recalled humorously, “I had no idea what I...

Engineers create a programmable fiber

June 3, 2021

MIT researchers have created the first fiber with digital capabilities, able to sense, store, analyze, and infer activity after being sewn into a shirt. Yoel Fink, who is a professor in the departments of materials science and engineering and electrical engineering and computer science, a Research Laboratory of Electronics principal investigator, and the senior author on the study, says digital fibers expand the possibilities for fabrics to uncover the context of hidden patterns in the human body that could be...

A better way to introduce digital tech...

June 3, 2021

When bringing technologies into the workplace, it pays to be realistic. Often, for instance, bringing new digital technology into an organization does not radically improve a firm’s operations. Despite high-level planning, a more frequent result is the messy process of frontline employees figuring out how they can get tech tools to help them to some degree. That task can easily fall on overburdened workers who have to grapple with getting things done, but don’t always have much voice in...

Q&A: Meditation for Chinese language learners

June 2, 2021

With the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, student well-being has become a pressing issue for many instructors. In this interview, Panpan Gao and Kang Zhou, lecturers in Chinese at MIT Global Languages, discuss their project to produce original meditation videos tailored for Chinese language learners. Working with a team of collaborators, they launched their website Meditation for Chinese Learners. The team has just received funding from MIT’s MindHandHeart Community Innovation Fund to further expand the project for the coming...

How data science gives new insight into...

June 2, 2021

“To do really important research in environmental policy,” said Francesca Dominici, “the first thing we need is data.” Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and co-director of the Harvard Data Science Initiative, recently presented the Henry W. Kendall Memorial Lecture at MIT. She described how, by leveraging massive amounts of data, Dominici and a consortium of her colleagues across the nation are revealing, on a grand scale, the effects air pollution...

3D printing tiny parts for big impact

June 2, 2021

Whether it’s computer chips, smartphone components, or camera parts, the hardware in many products is constantly getting smaller. The trend is pushing companies to come up with new ways to make the parts that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by MIT Professor Nicholas Fang in 2016 to improve the resolution and precision of 3D printing. Today BMF is helping customers in the race toward ever smaller parts by offering new kinds of...

Thirty-eight extraordinary MIT students named 2021 Burchard...

June 1, 2021

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (MIT SHASS) has announced that 38 MIT undergraduate sophomores and juniors have been named as the 2021 Burchard Scholars. Candidates for the Burchard program are nominated by their professors and selection is competitive. All students chosen for the program have demonstrated excellence and engagement in the humanistic fields, but can be majoring in science, design, and engineering fields as well as in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. With the...

The potential of artificial intelligence to bring...

June 1, 2021

Health care is at a junction, a point where artificial intelligence tools are being introduced to all areas of the space. This introduction comes with great expectations: AI has the potential to greatly improve existing technologies, sharpen personalized medicines, and, with an influx of big data, benefit historically underserved populations. But in order to do those things, the health care community must ensure that AI tools are trustworthy, and that they don’t end up perpetuating biases that exist in...

Professor Emeritus Gordon Pettengill, radio astronomy pioneer,...

June 1, 2021

Gordon Hemenway Pettengill ’48, MIT professor emeritus of planetary physics in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), former director of the MIT Center for Space Research, and pioneer in radio astronomy, died peacefully at his home in Concord, Massachusetts, on May 8 of congestive heart failure. He was 95. Pettengill pioneered the use of radar for planetary astronomy applications, making groundbreaking observations of the moon, the inner planets, and other solar system objects. His work was...

When masks reveal

June 1, 2021

A Covid-19 mask is typically seen as a form of protection. But what if our masks became opportunities for exposure — the physical expression of our thoughts, preoccupations, and the way we relate to the turbulence of the outside world? That was the challenge faced by MIT undergraduate students assigned to design a mask that reflected individual and collective experiences during the pandemic. As part of the interdisciplinary course 4.302 (Foundations in Art, Design and Spatial Practices: Design and...

Taking an indirect path into a bright...

May 28, 2021

Matthew Johnston was a physics senior looking to postpone his entry into adulting. He had an intense four years at MIT; when he wasn’t in class, he was playing baseball and working various tech development gigs. Johnston had led the MIT Engineers baseball team to a conference championship, becoming the first player in his team’s history to be named a three-time Google Cloud Academic All-American. He put an exclamation mark on his career by hitting four home runs in...

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