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“Traditional drug development processes are very linear, and they take many years,” says MIT Professor Ram Sasisekharan, pictured here. “If you’re going to get something to humans fast, you can’t do it linearly, because then the best-case scenario for testing in humans is a year to 18 months. If you need to develop a drug in six months or less, then a lot of these things need to happen i...

Rapid antibody development yields possible treatment for yellow fever

The experimental drug has shown promise in early-stage clinical trials conducted in Singapore.

July 29, 2020

Columns at entrance of MIT building, with flowering branch in foreground

School of Engineering first and second quarter 2020 awards

Faculty members recognized for excellence via a diverse array of honors, grants, and prizes over the past two quarters.

July 29, 2020

The classic dinosaur family tree has two subdivisions of early dinosaurs at its base: the Ornithischians, or bird-hipped dinosaurs, and the Saurischians, or lizard-hipped dinosaurs.In this photo-illustration, a drawing of a bird-hipped Ornithiscian is surrounded by fossils of a Pisanosaurus, a small bipedal dinosaur whose fossils have been analyzed in a new study.

Study sheds light on the evolution of the earliest dinosaurs

Geological evidence suggests the known dinosaur groups diverged early on, supporting the traditional dinosaur family tree.

July 29, 2020

MIT's new captioning and accessibility website includes guidelines and tools for captioning media, as well as training and other resources for staff and MIT affiliates who post or have posted media that needs captioning (certificates required).

MIT launches website to help with captioning media content

Website, online tools will help MIT fulfill National Association of the Deaf lawsuit settlement terms.

July 23, 2020

Thermoset polymers, found in car parts and electrical appliances, have to be durable and heat-resistant, but typically cannot be easily recycled or broken down after use. MIT chemists have now developed a way to modify thermoset plastics that allows them to be more easily broken down without compromising their mechanical strength.

Chemists make tough plastics recyclable

New method for producing thermoset plastics allows them to be broken down more easily after use.

July 22, 2020

“Dormio takes dream research to a new level, interacting directly with an individual’s dreaming brain and manipulating the actual content of their dreams,” says Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

A new way to control experimentation with dreams

Device not only helps record dream reports, but also guides dreams toward particular themes.

July 21, 2020

Md Sami Hasnine was instrumental in launching the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Seminar Series.

A voice for diversity, equity, and inclusion in civil and environmental engineering

Postdoc Md Sami Hasnine's work has been instrumental in forming CEE’s DEI committee.

July 20, 2020

"Peter Diamond is one of my intellectual heroes," says Stephen Morris. "His research laid the foundations of an MIT tradition of studying economic theory with tight connections to applied fields. I have always admired this tradition, and since my move to MIT, I have had the pleasure of confirming that it is alive and thriving."

Stephen Morris named inaugural Peter A. Diamond Professor of Economics

MIT Department of Economics establishes new professorship honoring Institute professor and Nobel laureate.

July 14, 2020

“I think when someone manages to make a scientific concept beautiful, it explains to people outside science how beautiful science can be. And that, I think, should be the goal of any science writer,” says Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira.

Communicating the “beauty and complexity” of science

With a newly minted PhD, Fernanda de Araújo Ferreira now explores the scientific enterprise through journalism.

July 13, 2020

Graduate student Summer Jackson in Killian Court at MIT.

Studying the cultures of companies

PhD student and “organizational ethnographer” Summer Jackson investigates the complex social hierarchies that govern the way we work.

July 9, 2020

Have power drill, will travel. MIT student Sreya Vangara is completing her research into testing superconductors for a fusion tokamak at home.

At home with fusion research

Hundreds of miles from campus, Sreya Vangara recalibrates her approach to laboratory research and other MIT commitments.

July 8, 2020

MIT economist David Autor has produced a new study showing that Blacks and Hispanics are particularly affected by the decline in middle-class urban jobs in recent decades.

The urban job escalator has stopped moving

Study shows cities have stopped providing middle-class work in recent decades — especially for Black and Latino workers.

July 8, 2020

MINE Program students and other program participants at a hackathon in Salvador, Brazil, are pictured here before the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted such gatherings.

Innovations in environmental training for the mining industry

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and multinational mining company Vale bring sustainability education to young engineering professionals in Brazil.

July 7, 2020

Through research trips to the remote Bolivian rainforest, researchers in the McDermott lab at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research has found that aspects of the perception of note combinations may be universal.

Universal musical harmony

Acoustic and biological constraints shape how we hear harmony across cultures.

July 1, 2020

Students shake hands during the MIT Prison Education Program. A documentary film about the program has won a New England Emmy Award.

MIT prison education program documentary wins New England Emmy Award

Film portrays groundbreaking initiative’s impact on MIT undergraduates and incarcerated students.

June 30, 2020

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