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Ariel White is an associate professor of Political Science at MIT where she studies voting and voting rights. In this episode, Ariel speaks with President Kornbluth about what is actually known immediately following an election, the challenges of exit polls, and what efforts work in getting people to vote.
Tiddlywinks, a tabletop game in which small colored disks are used to propel other, smaller disks into a cup, might sound simple but according to MIT alumni who have been at the highest ranks of the game for 50+ years, tiddlywinks can be fiercely competitive and challenging. Likening it to chess, the three friends who first met at MIT, all trace their passion for the game back to the Institute.
MIT CSAIL PhD student Katie Matton works at the intersection of machine learning and mental health. She focuses on developing machine learning techniques with clinical inspiration and real-world relevance. Here, Katie answers questions about her research, its applications and how she first became interested in this field.
A team of physicists from MIT worked with an animator to create a new explainer of the atomic nucleus. For the first time shapes and structures of nuclei in the quantum realm are visualized using animations and explained in this video.
January Scholars is a program that brings MIT undergraduates to Paris for two weeks of cultural and linguistic immersion. This includes visits and conferences given by experts in their field, as well as the experience of Parisian culture and daily life.