Moving forward by moving
With safety measures in place, MIT Fitness reopens indoor classes and expands fitness access.
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3 Questions: Using fabric to “listen” to space dust
Fabric samples are headed to the International Space Station for resiliency testing; possible applications include cosmic dust detectors or spacesuit smart skins.
Six MIT faculty elected 2020 AAAS Fellows
Choucri, Drennan, Fisher, Gershenfeld, Li, and Rus are recognized for their efforts to advance science.
Phiala Shanahan receives Kenneth G. Wilson Award for work in lattice field theory
Recognition honors research into nuclear structure and reactions.
Advancing artificial intelligence research
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and the Singapore Defense Science and Technology Agency award funding to 13 AI-focused projects.
STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers
MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
Understanding how people make sense of information in the information age
Graduate student Manon Revel uses quantitative methodologies to investigate how advertising in online publications affects trust in journalism.
Mary Frances Wagley, dedicated educator and the first woman to join the MIT Corporation, dies at 93
One of few female students in the 1940s, Wagley was also the Alumni Association’s first female president.
Inequality across networks
Eaman Jahani examines how resources are distributed across networks as a social and engineering systems PhD student at the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society.
Using machine learning to track the pandemic’s impact on mental health
Textual analysis of social media posts finds users’ anxiety and suicide-risk levels are rising, among other negative trends.
Five MIT researchers receive awards from the American Physical Society
William Barletta, Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Katelin Schutz, and Phiala Shanahan honored for contributions to physics.
Every vote counts for this math student
Graduate student Ashwin Narayan takes off the fall semester to work on an election information database.
Technique reveals deeper insights into the makeup of nacre, a natural material
Discovery could lead to new designs for improved and more sustainable materials inspired by nature.
3Q: Update on MIT’s Task Force 2021 and Beyond
Co-chairs Rick Danheiser and Sanjay Sarma describe a push to “invent a thriving new future” for MIT.
Silencing gene expression to cure complex diseases
Immuneering uses bioinformatics to develop new medicines while also helping large pharmaceutical companies improve their treatments.