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MIT professor David Rand is a one-time punk rock guitarist whose academic research digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics. “To me, the essence of punk rock is saying, ‘Let me think about this for myself,’” Rand says. “Let me not be bound by social norms and conventions. … That’s what I try to do in my research. It’s the punk-rock approach to social science.”

Playing a new tune

Meet Professor David Rand, a one-time punk rock guitarist who now digs into psychology, cooperation, and politics.

April 11, 2020

MIT’s innovation and entrepreneurship (I&E) community has stepped up to the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic — and perhaps nowhere is that more apparent than in the new Covid-19 Rapid Innovation Dashboard, pictured, which features more than 50 projects, research initiatives, startups, and global activities undertaken by the MIT community to respond to the crisis.

MIT’s entrepreneurial ecosystem steps up to the challenge of Covid-19

Entrepreneurial groups around the Institute have launched initiatives to address challenges brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic.

April 2, 2020

A new study co-authored by Emil Verner, an assistant professor at The MIT Sloan School of Management, shows that in the 1918 flu pandemic, cities that had more aggressive interventions including social distancing also experienced stronger economic recoveries afterward.

The data speak: Stronger pandemic response yields better economic recovery

Study of 1918 flu pandemic shows U.S. cities that responded more aggressively in health terms also had better economic rebounds.

March 31, 2020

Jonathan Parker PhD ’96, the Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is a leading expert in understanding how U.S. citizens use stimulus payments from the government, and how big an impact such efforts make on the national economy.

3 Questions: Jonathan Parker on building an economic recovery

MIT professor evaluates the effect of government stimulus on the crisis-hit U.S. economy.

March 30, 2020

As MIT classes resume today, online, faculty and the hundreds of staff who helped implement remote learning at MIT can pause briefly and catch their collective breath. “None of us have ever done this before, so we will navigate together,” says Dean for Digital Learning Krishna Rajagopal.

Rolling out remote learning

In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, MIT enters a new mode for teaching and learning.

March 29, 2020

Pierre Azoulay, the International Programs Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is co-author of a newly-published paper finding that the average age of the most successful start-up founders is 45 — much higher than popular imagery often suggests.

A business edge that comes with age

Economist Pierre Azoulay answers three questions about his finding that middle-aged entrepreneurs fare better than twentysomethings.

March 19, 2020

MIT’s graduate program in engineering has again earned a No. 1 spot in U.S. News and World Report’s annual rankings, a place it has held since 1990, when the magazine first ranked such programs.

MIT graduate engineering, business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2021

Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.

March 17, 2020

The three winning teams from the Hack for Inclusion 2020 and the crowd's favorite pose with their checks.

Hacking the challenges that are hard to talk about

Hack for Inclusion partnered with corporations and organizations to pose 14 challenges directly related to problems those groups are currently facing.

March 11, 2020

A study co-authored by MIT economists links the fall in the percentage of gross domestic product going to workers to the gain in market share of large companies that spend more on capital and less on workers.

Why are workers getting smaller pieces of the pie?

Market concentration in the form of “superstar” firms has been lowering labor’s share of GDP in recent decades, a new study finds.

March 10, 2020

Photo of MIT's Building 10 and Killian Court

Events postponed or canceled as MIT responds to COVID-19

Changes follow new Institute policies on travel, events, and visitors; some large classes to move online.

March 9, 2020

Afternoon light streams into MIT’s Lobby 7.

QS World University Rankings rates MIT No. 1 in 12 subjects for 2020

Institute ranks second in five subject areas.

March 3, 2020

A new study examines 140,000 economics papers published from 1970 to 2015, tallying the “extramural” citations that economics papers received in 16 other academic fields, including sociology, medicine, and public health.

The case for economics — by the numbers

A multidecade study shows economics increasingly overlaps with other disciplines, and has become more empirical in nature.

March 3, 2020

A new study co-authored by MIT Professor David Rand shows that labeling some news stories as false makes all other news stories seem more legitimate online.

The catch to putting warning labels on fake news

Study finds disclaimers on some false news stories make people more readily believe other false stories.

March 2, 2020

Testing a voting system may show that certain adversarial attacks don’t work, but it doesn’t reveal that there are no attacks that work.

3 Questions: Ron Rivest on trusting electronic voting systems

MIT cryptography expert and election technology developer explains how to verify an election outcome.

February 26, 2020

MIT graduate student Emily Hanhauser demonstrates a new device that may simplify the logistics of water monitoring for trace metal contaminants, particularly in resource-constrained regions.

Instrument may enable mail-in testing to detect heavy metals in water

Whisk-shaped device absorbs trace contaminants, preserves them in dry state that can be shipped to labs for analysis.

February 25, 2020

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