3Q: The interface between art and neuroscience
PhD student Sarah Schwettmann explains how the study of visual perception can translate students’ creativity across domains.
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MET Fund launched to support MITdesignX
Seed fund will support venture-design education and entrepreneurship in the School of Architecture and Planning.
Alexander Dingee, co-founder of MIT Venture Mentoring Service, dies at 88
Successful entrepreneur launched VMS with David Staelin to provide young innovators with advice from others who understand the challenges of building a business.
Researchers tune material’s color and thermal properties separately
Polymers could be designed to reflect or trap heat, regardless of hue.
MIT launches 2019 AAU survey on sexual misconduct, responds to National Academies report
Survey open to all students April 2-May 1; MIT creates presidential advisory board and helps launch national consortium to improve academic climates and cultures.
Whitehead Institute’s David Page to conclude term as director
Search committee chaired by MIT President Emerita Susan Hockfield will identify new director for eminent biomedical institute.
Ken Kamrin seeks fundamental behaviors in sand
Mechanical engineering professor’s models of granular flow shed light on agriculture, soils, and geology.
Co-designing assistive technologies in India
MIT students connect with premier Indian institutes, hospitals, and students to collaborate on “humanistic” assistive design.
The chemist and the stage
Senior chemistry major, athlete, and artist Audrey Pillsbury creates a musical about life as a second-generation Asian-American.
Academic institutions grant commercial license for CRISPR-based SHERLOCK diagnostic technology in developed world
Rights are protected for broad use in developing world and for public health needs.
Alana gift to MIT launches Down syndrome research center, technology program for disabilities
Foundation’s $28.6 million gift will fund science, innovation, and education to advance understanding, ability, and inclusion.
Open access task force releases draft recommendations
The MIT community is invited to comment on ways to increase sharing of research, data, software, and more.
“One.MIT” creates a monument — at the smallest scale
MIT.nano etches more than 270,000 names from the MIT community on a 6-inch wafer.
Gulf Stream series wins Knight Science Journalism Program’s Inaugural Victor K. McElheny Award
Award honoring local and regional science journalism will go to a reporting team from the Charleston Post and Courier.
Ethics, computing, and AI: Perspectives from MIT
Faculty representing all five MIT schools offer views on the ethical and societal implications of new technologies.