Institute Prof. Sheila Widnall, the first woman to lead the Air Force, and Linguistics alumna Jessie “Little Doe” Baird, an indigenous language preservationist, are two of the 10 accomplished women chosen to represent Massachusetts in USA Today’s Women of the Century series, reports Nicole Simmons. Baird was also included in the paper’s nationwide list of 100 Women of the Century.
Researchers from MIT and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston “are engaged in a ‘multi-year effort to build and test a hypothetical digital currency oriented to central bank uses,’” reports Craig Torres for Bloomberg.