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Six from MIT awarded 2023 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans

Fellowship funds graduate studies for outstanding immigrants and children of immigrants.

April 25, 2023

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Making property assessments as simple as snapping a picture

The technology of MIT alumni-founded Hosta a.i. creates detailed property assessments from photos.

April 21, 2023

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MIT Center for Real Estate advances climate and sustainable real estate research agenda

Projects, publications, and academia-industry networks produce pathways for the real estate industry to address the climate crisis.

March 23, 2023

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3 Questions: Daniel Auguste on why “successful entrepreneurs don’t fall from the sky”

The MLK Visiting Professor studies the ways innovators are influenced by their communities.

March 1, 2023

Hari Balakrishnan awarded Marconi Prize

The prize is the top honor within the field of communications technology.

February 28, 2023

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Helping companies deploy AI models more responsibly

MIT spinout Verta offers tools to help companies introduce, monitor, and manage machine-learning models safely and at scale.

February 10, 2023

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World Wide Web Consortium is now a public-interest nonprofit organization

Growing from a strong foundation built at MIT CSAIL and other academic hosts, W3C will continue its mission of developing standards for an open and equitable web.

February 2, 2023

On left, a photo of Amy Finkelstein, arms crossed, with wooden door in background. On right, the red cover says, “Risky Business: Why Insurance Markets Fail and What to do About it,” by authors Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Fisman.

Unnatural selection

In a new book, “Risky Business,” Amy Finkelstein examines the core issue of the insurance industry: Who gets to be a customer?

January 30, 2023

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3 Questions: What to expect from respiratory illnesses, including Covid-19, this winter

MIT Medical Director Cecilia Stuopis says that while this is a time to be more vigilant, people should not panic.

January 13, 2023

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3 Questions: Why cybersecurity is on the agenda for corporate boards of directors

In the fight against escalating cybercrime, boards need to deepen their cybersecurity competencies, explains Keri Pearlson, executive director of Cybersecurity at MIT Sloan.

November 30, 2022