MIT.nano "will break down barriers traditionally separating subjects in the name of nanoscale research,” writes Chemistry World reporter Andy Extance, who quotes MIT’s Moungi Bawendi as explaining: “It is a shared space in a state-of-the-art building that will house state-of-the-art instrumentation. I expect there will be many new activities fostered by this new space.”
CNN Money reporter Lauren Everitt interviews MIT graduate Amrita Siagal, who co-founded Saathi, a social enterprise startup that provides low-cost sanitary napkins and jobs to women in rural India. Saathi was recently selected as the winner of the Harvard New Venture Competition.
WBUR’s Andrea Shea visits the offices of MIT startup Echo Nest, which develops recommendation platforms for music streaming sites. The company was recently acquired by Spotify.
CNBC reporter Paul Einstein writes about MIT spinoff Terrafugia, which is working on developing a flying car. “The four-seater would be capable of vertical takeoffs and landings,” writes Epstein.
Writing for Forbes, Neil Kane writes about new technology developed by MIT researchers that allows for solar energy to be captured when the sun is shining and stored for later use.
“A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical,” writes Carmen Nobel of Forbes on the findings of a new paper co-authored by Professor Fiona Murray.
Writing for the Boston Globe, Deborah Fitzgerald (Dean, SHASS) writes: “Some may be surprised, and, we hope, reassured, to learn that here at MIT — a bastion of STEM education — we view the humanities, arts, and social sciences as essential...”
The Economist reports on two projects started at MIT aimed at improving sustainable agriculture in cities. The CityFARM initiative aims to convert tall buildings into indoor farms; MIT alumni Jamie Byron and Gabe Blanchet are working on technology to produce food in home kitchens.
The Associated Press reports on the 200,000-square-foot nanotechnology research facility to be constructed in the heart of the MIT campus. “An estimated 2,000 MIT researchers may ultimately use the building in fields including energy, health, life sciences, quantum sciences, electronics and manufacturing,” the AP reports.
In an op-ed for The National Interest magazine, MIT president emerita Susan Hockfield writes that "there is no better way to precipitate growth than investing in innovation."
Francie Diep of Popular Science writes that researchers from MIT have discovered that a specific type of brain activity, associated with short-term memory, is present in animals and humans when solving complex tasks.
The Boston area is seeing a boom in startups that specialize in the use of artificial intelligence to more effectively market to consumers, writes Michael Fitzgerald for Boston Magazine. Fitzgerald writes about the startups, experts, and technologies from MIT that have helped to initiate this renaissance.
Caroline Pugh interviews Kevin Rustagi, MIT alumnus and entrepreneur, for The Huffington Post. Rustagi, two-years out of college, has already founded two companies and worked for Apple where he helped to design the speakers for the iPhone 5.
The Boston Globe's Carolyn Johnson reports on how MIT is building a new space specifically devoted to nanotechnology research. The building will, "double the size of the nanotechnology clean room and imaging facilities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology," Johnson reports.
Writing for The Boston Globe, Kevin Hartnett reports on how MIT researchers have developed a new technique to help curb counterfeiting. The researchers have designed nanoparticles that can be used to determine the authenticity of items.