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Fikile Brushett named 2020 NOBCChE Lloyd N....

November 9, 2020

The National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) has selected Associate Professor Fikile Brushett as the 2020 recipient of the Lloyd N. Ferguson Young Scientist Award for Excellence in Research. This award is granted to a young scientist who has demonstrated technical excellence and documented contributions to their field. It also recognizes dedication shown to research and to the community. Brushett received the award at NOBBChE’s Annual Conference on Sept. 25, and is...

Innovative face masks and medical-grade gowns to...

November 9, 2020

With the world battling the current Covid-19 outbreak, a new project at MIT seeks to develop innovative solutions to fight this and future pandemics. The Pandemic Response CoLab is a joint project by the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence (CCI), MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, and founding member MilliporeSigma, the life science business of Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany. The Pandemic Response CoLab is an open, online collaboration platform that invites anyone, from individuals to groups, from communities...

Environmental Solutions Initiative puts sustainability front and...

November 9, 2020

When MIT students walk into the Johnson Athletic Center for fall career fair — or this year, hop onto Zoom — they’re greeted with flashy displays from hundreds of employers vying for some of the top tech and engineering students in the world. Company reps eagerly tell them about salaries, office perks, and opportunities to contribute to cutting-edge work. Now, thanks to a tool developed by MIT’s Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI), students can also learn how environmentally responsible their...

Staying ahead of the artificial intelligence curve...

November 9, 2020

In August, the young artificial intelligence process automation company Intelenz, Inc. announced its first U.S. patent, an AI-enabled software-as-a-service application for automating repetitive activities, improving process execution, and reducing operating costs. For company co-founder Renzo Zagni, the patent is a powerful testament to the value of his MIT educational experience. Over the course of his two-decade career at Oracle, Zagni worked his way from database administrator to vice president of Enterprise Applications-IT. After spending seven years in his final...

No matter the size of a nuclear...

November 9, 2020

Atoms in a gas can seem like partiers at a nanoscopic rave, with particles zipping around, pairing up, and flying off again in seemingly random fashion. And yet physicists have come up with formulas that predict this behavior, even when the atoms are extremely close together and can tug and pull on each other in complicated ways. The environment within the nucleus of a single atom seems similar, with protons and neutrons also dancing about. But because the nucleus...

Aspiring physician explores the many levels of...

November 9, 2020

It was her childhood peanut allergy that first sparked senior Ayesha Ng’s fascination with the human body. “To see this severe reaction happen to my body and not know what was happening — that made me a lot more curious about biology and living systems,” Ng says. She didn’t exactly plan it this way. But in her three and a half years at MIT, Ng, a biology and cognitive and brain sciences double major from the Los Angeles, California...

Pushing the envelope with fusion magnets

November 6, 2020

“At the age of between 12 and 15 I was drawing; I was making plans of fusion devices.” David Fischer remembers growing up in Vienna, Austria, imagining how best to cool the furnace used to contain the hot soup of ions known as plasma in a fusion device called a tokamak. With plasma hotter than the core of the sun being generated in a donut-shaped vacuum chamber just a meter away from these magnets, what temperature ranges might be...

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero receives the Lise Meitner Distinguished...

November 6, 2020

Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, the Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics, was awarded the Lise Meitner Distinguished Lecture and Medal, for his groundbreaking work on “twistronics,” a technique that adjusts the electronic properties of graphene by rotating adjacent layers of the material. His breakthrough research in twisted bilayer graphene research discovered unique electrical properties with the potential to create innovative superconducting materials and novel quantum devices for advanced quantum sensing, photonics, and computing applications. The medal, sponsored by the Royal Swedish...

MIT Center for Real Estate announces new...

November 6, 2020

The MIT Center for Real Estate (CRE) has announced a new leadership team. Siqi Zheng, the Samuel Tak Lee Professor of Real Estate Development and Entrepreneurship, has assumed the role of faculty director. Kairos Shen, associate professor of the practice, is serving as the center’s executive director. Zheng and Shen assumed their new positions last summer. Zheng will lead the intellectual and research mission of CRE. This includes expanding the center’s interdisciplinary connections within the School of Architecture and...

A storyteller dedicated to environmental justice

November 6, 2020

“What’s an important part of your identity?” It was a simple question. Yet Mimi Wahid watched as the high school students in her workshop fell silent, their eyebrows furrowed in thought. It was clear that for many, this was the first time they had been directly asked this question before. To Wahid, an MIT senior, questions about identity define her story. Growing up as a young woman in rural North Carolina to a white mother and a black father,...

Julian Beinart: A life of carefully chosen...

November 5, 2020

Professor Emeritus Julian Beinart, an internationally celebrated architect and longtime MIT professor known for his highly influential course on urbanism, died on Oct. 2 due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. He was 88. “Julian Beinart’s best ideals were the best ideals of this department,” says Nicholas de Monchaux, head of the MIT Department of Architecture. “A tireless student of form, he believed architecture’s role in the city also made it inextricable from politics. His legacy — in South Africa,...

MIT celebrates Women's Entrepreneurship Month

November 5, 2020

The women’s entrepreneurial experience at MIT started in 1870, when Ellen Henrietta Swallow first set foot on campus as an “experimental student.” Some 30 years later, she became the second president of the MIT Women’s Association, organized with her help “to promote greater fellowship among Institute women.” In the years since, the immeasurable contribution of MIT’s women to innovation and entrepreneurship has spanned the globe. This month, MIT commemorates the 150th anniversary of the first female student at MIT with...

For Thomas Searles, a passion for people...

November 5, 2020

When Thomas Searles was assigned a book report in the first grade, he initially had trouble choosing a topic. He really didn’t like fiction books. After a bit of indecision, he chose to write his report on a book about Black astronauts. Though he didn’t realize it at the time, his journey to becoming a physicist at MIT had just begun. “I looked in the book, and there was Ronald E. McNair, who happens to be an MIT alum,...

Algorithm reduces use of riskier antibiotics for...

November 5, 2020

One paradox about antibiotics is that, broadly speaking, the more we use them, the less they continue to work. The Darwinian process of bacteria growing resistant to antibiotics means that, when the drugs don’t work, we can no longer treat infections, leading to groups like the World Health Organization warning about our ability to control major public health threats. Because of its ubiquity, one topic that’s particularly concerning is urinary tract infections (UTIs), which affect half of all women...

Using machine learning to track the pandemic’s...

November 5, 2020

Dealing with a global pandemic has taken a toll on the mental health of millions of people. A team of MIT and Harvard University researchers has shown that they can measure those effects by analyzing the language that people use to express their anxiety online. Using machine learning to analyze the text of more than 800,000 Reddit posts, the researchers were able to identify changes in the tone and content of language that people used as the first wave...

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