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"The transmission of inaccurate beliefs about the virus is not just about 'facts.' It's about emotion," says Heather Hendershot. "I’d like to believe that the best way to fight misinformation is with information, but it’s possible that a public health campaign with a strong emotional resonance would be more effective."

3 Questions: Heather Hendershot on coverage of the pandemic

MIT media expert discusses the stark differences across U.S. media sources.

July 21, 2020

Professor Thomas Kochan argues that it is time for the U.S. to make significant labor policy changes.

3 Questions: Thomas Kochan on new policies to shape work of the future

MIT Sloan professor says major transformation of labor law and associated policies are needed for improved worker-employer relationships.

July 16, 2020

3 questions with James H. Williams, Jr., professor of mechanical engineering

Two new textbooks by Williams present engineering mechanics with a blend of the modern and historical.

June 17, 2020

Professor Balakrishnan Rajagopal was appointed special rapporteur on adequate housing for the UN Human Rights Council.

3 Questions: Balakrishnan Rajagopal on recognizing homelessness as a human rights violation

Associate professor of law and development will address housing challenges in a new appointment as special rapporteur for UN Human Rights Council.

June 11, 2020

"The World Wide Web is famously said to have been inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's short story 'Dial F For Frankenstein," says Professor Alexandre. "Whatever the truth is, I'm not surprised that a writer's process of meticulously crafting creative ways of communicating with readers would lead to imaginary inventions that foresee entirely new forms of communication. Literature, its readers, and the i...

3 Questions: Sandy Alexandre on the literary roots of technological innovations

“Our speculative fiction writers are the unsung prophets among us.”

June 1, 2020

Assistant Professor Seychelle Vos uses cryogenic electron microscopy, X-ray crystallography, biochemistry, and genetics to study how DNA and its associated proteins are organized inside the cell.

3 Questions: Seychelle Vos on detangling DNA

An unconventional geneticist uses cryogenic electron microscopy and crystallography to understand gene expression and cell fate.

May 28, 2020

Addison Stark (left) and Abigail Ostriker

Q&A: Energy studies at MIT and the next generation of energy leaders

Abigail Ostriker ’16 and Addison Stark SM ’10, PhD ’15 share how their experiences with MIT’s energy programs connect them to the global energy community.

May 18, 2020

MIT News recently spoke with three leaders of MIT’s Task Force on the Work of the Future. Left to right: co-chair David A. Mindell, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, the Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT; executive director Elisabeth Beck Reynolds PhD ‘10, who is also executive director of the MIT Industrial Performance Center; and co-chair David ...

The changing world of work

MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future responds to rapid changes brought by the pandemic.

May 18, 2020

In the lower left corner of this photograph, researchers prepare a submersible device. “Together with our collaborators in the Maldives, we are designing, testing, building, and deploying submersible devices that, based simply on their geometry in relationship to the ocean waves and currents, promote sand accumulation in specific areas,” says associate professor Skylar Tibbits.

3 Questions: Harnessing wave power to rebuild islands

In the Maldives, an MIT team is conducting experiments to combat sea-level rise by redirecting natural sand movement.

May 11, 2020

In this photograph of fabric, you can see the green light of functional fibers. “No human-made objects are more ubiquitous or exposed to more vital data than the clothes we all wear,” says doctoral student Gabriel Locke. “Wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow teach our fabrics to sense, store, analyze, extract and communicate this potentially useful information?”

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.

May 8, 2020

Anne McCants, MIT professor of history, describes how we can derive hope about climate change by learning from human societies that thrived in difficult conditions of the preindustrial past.

3 Questions: Anne McCants on climate change in history

How, in the nadir of the Little Ice Age, did the Dutch generate a golden age?

May 6, 2020

Kyle Filipe working from home. "Our mentality is: keep telling us what you need and we'll keep trying to figure out creative solutions. That’s what [MIT IS&T] did before Covid-19 and that’s what we’ll do long after Covid-19.”

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.

May 5, 2020

Nora Murphy is the archivist for researcher services in the MIT Libraries’ Department of Distinctive Collections.

3 Questions: How MIT experienced the 1918-19 flu pandemic

MIT Libraries archivist Nora Murphy shares materials from the 1918-19 influenza pandemic, and suggests ways to document the Covid-19 crisis.

May 5, 2020

Q&A: Gregory Rutledge on initial testing of KN95 respirators for public health officials

MIT professor’s research group leverages its capability for testing filtration efficiency to assess certain respirators for MEMA, others.

April 30, 2020

Michael Yaffe with colleague at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

3 Questions: Michael Yaffe on treating Covid-19 patients with acute respiratory distress

MIT professor and intensivist/trauma surgeon explains the new challenges that Covid-19 brings to treating patients in acute respiratory distress.

April 29, 2020

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