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Universities support MIT and Harvard in legal...

July 10, 2020

After MIT and Harvard University led the way on Wednesday, a growing number of colleges and universities around the country have begun or are actively planning to take legal action against a surprise policy issued by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security. The new policy would have the effect of banning any foreign student with an F-1 student visa from entering the U.S., or from remaining in the country, if their classes...

Bringing the benefits of in-person collaboration to...

July 10, 2020

Over the past few months, while many workers were adjusting to a newfound reliance on Zoom meetings and Slack messages, employees at companies including toy designer Mattel, banking giant BNP Paribas, and the multinational energy corporation Enel Group have been collaborating in shared spaces. They’ve been using whiteboards and sticky notes to organize ideas, and even finishing up work sessions with handshakes and high fives, all without the slightest concern of contracting Covid-19. That’s because they’re meeting virtually on...

Studying the cultures of companies

July 10, 2020

While shadowing human resources employees at a fast-growing technology company, Summer Jackson began to notice a strange pattern. The well-intentioned company was struggling to achieve its diversity goals, but it was reluctant to use recruiting tools that could help. The issue was the way these sites displayed underrepresented candidates in an e-commerce-like interface. “They want you to shop for people?” the HR team members bemoaned. Their moral discomfort surprised Jackson, because the team used similar but less race-oriented tools...

Q&A: Meet MIT Alumni Association President Charlene...

July 9, 2020

On July 1, Charlene C. (Nohara) Kabcenell ’79 began her one-year term as president of the MIT Alumni Association. She joins President-Select Annalisa L. Weigel ’94, ’95, SM ’00, PhD ’02 and a slate of new directors for 2020-21. A Hawaii native, Kabcenell has lived in California with her husband, Derry Kabcenell ’75, since she graduated from MIT with degree in electrical engineering and computer science. She began her career at Xerox and retired from Oracle as a vice...

A new approach to carbon capture

July 9, 2020

An essential component of any climate change mitigation plan is cutting carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activities. Some power plants now have CO2 capture equipment that grabs CO2 out of their exhaust. But those systems are each the size of a chemical plant, cost hundreds of millions of dollars, require a lot of energy to run, and work only on exhaust streams that contain high concentrations of CO2. In short, they’re not a solution for airplanes, home heating systems, or automobiles....

Our itch to share helps spread Covid-19...

July 9, 2020

To stay current about the Covid-19 pandemic, people need to process health information when they read the news. Inevitably, that means people will be exposed to health misinformation, too, in the form of false content, often found online, about the illness. Now a study co-authored by MIT scholars contains bad news and good news about Covid-19 misinformation — and a new insight that may help reduce the problem. The bad news is that when people are consuming news on...

Empowering kids to address Covid-19 through coding

July 9, 2020

When schools around the world closed their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, the team behind MIT App Inventor — a web-based, visual-programming environment that allows children to develop applications for smartphones and tablets — began thinking about how they could not only help keep children engaged and learning, but also empower them to create new tools to address the pandemic. In April, the App Inventor team launched a new challenge that encourages children and adults around the world...

Engineers design a reusable, silicone rubber face...

July 9, 2020

Researchers at MIT and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they believe could stop viral particles as effectively as N95 masks. Unlike N95 masks, the new masks were designed to be easily sterilized and used many times. As the number of new Covid-19 cases in the United States continues to rise, there is still an urgent need for N95 masks for health care workers and others. The new mask is made of durable silicone...

To engineers’ surprise, radiation can slow corrosion...

July 9, 2020

Radiation nearly always degrades the materials exposed to it, hastening their deterioration and requiring replacement of key components in high-radiation environments such as nuclear reactors. But for certain alloys that could be used in fission or fusion reactors, the opposite turns out to be true: Researchers at MIT and in California have now found that instead of hastening the material’s degradation, radiation actually improves its resistance, potentially doubling the material’s useful lifetime. The finding could be a boon for...

J-PAL webinar series on program evaluation draws...

July 8, 2020

Last month, the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) held a free, five-day webinar series in place of their annual in-person Evaluating Social Programs Course. The interactive webinar sessions introduced participants to why and how randomized evaluations can be used to rigorously measure program impact. Lectures were guided by senior J-PAL staff with expertise in randomized evaluations as well as J-PAL affiliated researchers. Throughout the week, 1,918 attendees from 101 different countries participated in the webinar. While a...

Flatworms muscle new eyes' wiring into their...

July 8, 2020

If anything happens to the eyes of the tiny, freshwater-dwelling planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, they can grow them back within just a few days. How they do this is a scientific conundrum — one that Peter Reddien’s lab at Whitehead Institute has been studying for years. The lab’s latest project offers some insight: in a paper published in Science June 26, researchers in Reddien’s lab have identified a new type of cell that likely serves as a guidepost to help route axons...

Signs of Covid-19 may be hidden in...

July 8, 2020

It’s often easy to tell when colleagues are struggling with a cold — they sound sick. Maybe their voices are lower or have a nasally tone. Infections change the quality of our voices in various ways. But MIT Lincoln Laboratory researchers are detecting these changes in Covid-19 patients even when these changes are too subtle for people to hear or even notice in themselves. By processing speech recordings of people infected with Covid-19 but not yet showing symptoms, these...

MIT Libraries staff honored with 2020 Infinite...

July 8, 2020

The MIT Libraries honored the outstanding contributions of its employees June 18 with a virtual Infinite Mile Awards ceremony. The circus-themed program, titled “The Greatest Staff on Earth,” featured a staff talent showcase and socially distant performances by the libraries’ band, The Dust Jackets. Director Chris Bourg presented awards to individuals and teams in the categories listed below; award recipients are listed along with excerpts from the award presentations. Bringing out the best Hailed for making the libraries not...

At home with fusion research

July 8, 2020

Sreya Vangara was ready to get her hands dirty. In February, the sophomore was starting her first Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) project at the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), having spent two semesters more theoretically occupied writing algorithms for self-driving cars. Now she would be working on MIT’s latest fusion experiment, SPARC. Under the guidance of PSFC Director Dennis Whyte and Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) Chief Scientific Officer Brandon Sorbom PhD ’17, she would be developing...

Scaling up the quantum chip

July 8, 2020

MIT researchers have developed a process to manufacture and integrate “artificial atoms,” created by atomic-scale defects in microscopically thin slices of diamond, with photonic circuitry, producing the largest quantum chip of its type. The accomplishment “marks a turning point” in the field of scalable quantum processors, says Dirk Englund, an associate professor in MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Millions of quantum processors will be needed to build quantum computers, and the new research demonstrates a viable...

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