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Decarbonize and diversify

July 15, 2020

Today, Russia’s economy depends heavily upon its abundant fossil fuel resources. Russia is one of the world’s largest exporters of fossil fuels, and a number of its key exporting industries — including metals, chemicals, and fertilizers — draw on fossil resources. The nation also consumes fossil fuels at a relatively high rate; it’s the world’s fourth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide. As the world shifts away from fossil fuel production and consumption and toward low-carbon development aligned with the near-...

MIT's Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab...

July 15, 2020

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT is launching a new regional research center in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to focus on innovative research and policy engagement to reduce poverty. Policy challenges in the MENA region are complex and interconnected: Children in the region have among the lowest learning outcomes, youth and women struggle to find quality employment, women’s agency is among the lowest in the world, environmental and energy resources are strained...

Op-ed: International scholars are vital to American...

July 15, 2020

Earlier today, following a lawsuit filed by MIT and Harvard University, the federal government rescinded a policy that would have prevented potentially hundreds of thousands of foreign students from studying in the U.S. this fall if classes were taught remotely. “Yet the larger battle is far from over,” MIT President L. Rafael Reif writes in an op-ed published this evening by The New York Times. “This misguided policy was one of many signals that the administration wants foreign students...

Racing into the future of autonomous driving

July 14, 2020

On a cloudy day last August, Emily Zhang held her breath at the Hockenheimring racetrack in Germany’s Rhine Valley. Less than two weeks after the circuit hosted the German Grand Prix, it was the stage for Formula Student Germany, one of the world’s most competitive automobile design competitions for students. Zhang and her teammates from MIT Driverless — working under the auspices of the Edgerton Center — watched anxiously as their race car rolled over to the starting line....

Stephen Morris named inaugural Peter A. Diamond...

July 14, 2020

The Department of Economics has announced that Stephen Morris is the inaugural Peter A. Diamond Professor in Economics. This professorship was created by a generous gift from economics PhD alumnus C.C. Chen ’63, Sloan ’65, PhD ‘67, of Taipei, Taiwan. Chen, who received MIT degrees from three schools for his studies in the 1960s, has spent five decades as an entrepreneur, primarily in the global shipping industry. He is the founder and group chairman of Wan Hai Lines, one of...

MIT team collaborates with 3M to develop...

July 14, 2020

Hadley Sikes, an associate professor of chemical engineering at MIT, has been working for years with her team on the technology they’re adapting to create a Covid-19 test with rapid results. Moving beyond lab prototypes and into manufacturing the diagnostics on a large scale, however, is new territory. 3M is collaborating with the Sikes Lab to jointly develop the test, including establishing novel processes for scaling it. They will determine whether the test renders highly accurate results within 10...

LEAH Knox Scholars Program kicks off fourth...

July 14, 2020

A kickoff event on June 24 commenced a summer of science for local high school students. Established in 2017 as a biomedical research track within the Leaders through Education, Action, and Hope (LEAH) Project, the LEAH Knox Scholars Program is a collaboration between MIT and Health Resources in Action (HRiA), providing mentorship and hands-on lab experience in the field of biology. Each summer, 24 rising juniors and seniors from disadvantaged and underrepresented backgrounds enrolled in Boston, Cambridge, and Everett,...

Alumni in Greater China boost MIT's PPE...

July 14, 2020

When coronavirus cases in Massachusetts began to increase in early March, the MIT community sprang into action. By late March, more than 50 MIT departments, labs, and centers had donated extra, unopened personal protective equipment (PPE) to support area hospitals and frontline health-care workers in need. An MIT Medical outreach team — led by Elazer R. Edelman, director of the Institute for Medical Engineering and Science — was established for distribution of PPE to local hospitals. MIT alumni from around the world also...

Communicating the “beauty and complexity” of science

July 14, 2020

A few months into her virology doctoral program at Harvard University, Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira knew something wasn’t right. “Grad school was a reality check. Once you choose to pursue a PhD, your life is kind of mapped out for you,” she explains. “But when I started grad school, I immediately saw the annoying parts of academia: writing five grants and getting one, and labs being shut down for lack of funding. And it just seemed very unstable.” Rather...

Learners today, leaders tomorrow

July 13, 2020

On June 18, 609 learners celebrated the completion of MITx MicroMasters programs in Data, Economics, and Development Policy (DEDP), Principles of Manufacturing, and Statistics and Data Science in an online event hosted by MIT Open Learning. With Vice President for Open Learning Professor Sanjay Sarma presiding, the celebration emphasized the credential holders’ tenacity and potential to transform their industries and communities. This is the first time cohorts from these three programs have been recognized through a completion ceremony, bringing...

At home and abroad with MISTI 2020

July 13, 2020

“My hopes that the internship would be possible were dashed,” rising sophomore Nieky Wang reflects about the impact Covid-19 had on her plans to take part in MIT-India this summer. “I wasn’t sure if I would be personally comfortable with traveling abroad during a pandemic, even if it was allowed by MIT.” Wang is one of many MIT students for whom summer means an MIT International Science and Technology (MISTI) opportunity, with over half of the 1,200 annual student...

Effort launches to “explore how MIT might...

July 13, 2020

MIT’s expansive effort to envision, and position itself for, a post-Covid world — Task Force 2021 and Beyond (MIT Beyond) — is now under way. With a letter today to the MIT community, co-chairs Rick Danheiser and Sanjay Sarma formally launched MIT Beyond, a collaborative, cross-Institute team composed of some 150 faculty, staff, and students. “Covid-19 has forced changes in how we all live, work, and learn — and there may be no full return to our old ‘normal,’”...

Letting robots manipulate cables

July 13, 2020

For humans, it can be challenging to manipulate thin flexible objects like ropes, wires, or cables. But if these problems are hard for humans, they are nearly impossible for robots. As a cable slides between the fingers, its shape is constantly changing, and the robot’s fingers must be constantly sensing and adjusting the cable’s position and motion. Standard approaches have used a series of slow and incremental deformations, as well as mechanical fixtures, to get the job done. Recently,...

A wizard of ultrasharp imaging

July 12, 2020

Though Frances Ross and her sister Caroline Ross both ended up on the faculty of MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering, they got there by quite different pathways. While Caroline followed a more traditional academic route and has spent most of her career at MIT, Frances Ross spent most of her professional life working in the industrial sector, as a microscopy specialist at IBM. It wasn’t until 2018 that she arrived at MIT to oversee the new state-of-the-art...

Tunney Lee, professor emeritus of urban planning,...

July 10, 2020

Tunney Lee, professor emeritus of urban planning and former head of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), passed away of complications from cancer treatment on July 2 in Boston. He was 88 years old. An architect by training, Lee was also an accomplished planner, historian, and community activist. At MIT, his research focused on the process of community-based design, with a particular interest in high-density urban settings. He led frequent collaborations between MIT students and Boston-area...

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