Art connects a community in quarantine
Tunnel66 reimagines The Borderline Mural Project, providing a virtual space where students can create art together, even while physically apart.
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3 Questions: The rapidly unfolding future of smart fabrics
Soon, your clothes may be able to monitor your vital signs, analyze the results, and warn you of health risks.
Infusing ethics into experiential learning
In a new undergraduate course, students explore the ethical dimensions of their experiences.
In a suddenly remote spring, library support services carry on
Despite closing campus locations, the MIT Libraries continue to provide vital support for teaching, learning, and research.
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3 Questions: Kyle Filipe on moving MIT online amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Director of IT support services for MIT Information Systems and Technology describes how his unit mobilized to prepare the MIT community for our new virtual landscape.
SHERLOCK-based one-step test provides rapid and sensitive Covid-19 detection
New CRISPR-based research tool delivers results in an hour; researchers share protocol and kits to advance research and move toward clinical validation.
A forum for female voices in international security
MIT graduate students launched the Future Strategy Forum to advance women in security studies.
Myth-busting on YouTube
Postdoc Izabella Pena uses social media to combat the infodemic about the Covid-19 pandemic.
Life and learning find a way during a pandemic
Despite Covid-19 physical distancing, the Department of Biology has come together while being apart.
MIT Sloan Executive Education pivots to live online courses
Jumping the digital learning curve is forging a whole new path for participant engagement and program delivery.
CRISPR-based diagnostic chips perform thousands of tests simultaneously to detect viruses
Diagnostic platform CARMEN combines microfluidics with CRISPR-based detection technology SHERLOCK, and could one day be used for public health efforts.
Studying the brain and supporting the mind
At MIT, senior Tarun Kamath has explored neuroscience and science policy, while helping his peers find ways to reduce stress.
Workforce Education Project details how Covid-19 upends assumptions
Report finds that higher education institutions can play a significant role in reforming workforce education.
How could Covid-19 and the body’s immune response affect the brain?
Picower Institute researchers are embarking on experiments to learn the mechanisms by which coronavirus might affect mental health.
3 Questions: Tom Leighton on the major surge in internet traffic triggered by physical distancing
Mathematician and CEO of web services company Akamai looks ahead to how the pandemic-driven shift to remote working might change society.