WBUR reporter Erin Trahan spotlights a new course that brings together MIT students and inmates at the South Bay House of Correction to create a two-story mural. She speaks with MIT first-year student Sherry Xiao, who explains that she is learning how to collaborate with people, share ideas, and respect other people's ideas.
La República reporter David Luna speaks with 15 MIT researchers, postdoctoral fellows and students from Colombia about their work and experience at MIT. Luna writes that “what sets the Institute apart is its commitment to open, borderless, shared learning,” adding that “MIT understands the true meaning of education: mind and hand to move forward.”
NESN spotlights MIT senior Riley Quinn, who was born without a left hand and forearm, and his success in the classroom and on the football field. “My only option was to outwork people, whether that was on the field, in the classroom, in relationships, day-to-day life,” says Quinn, “being a good person and taking that with me in everything I do.”
Los Angeles Times reporter Sara Cardine spotlights a book by four MIT students that offers encouragement and insights on growing up. “Upperclassmen, and adults for that matter, you think they have everything together,” explains undergraduate and co-author Mina Fahmi. “It helps to be reminded everyone’s still trying to figure things out.”
“Points of You,” a book by four MIT students that offers real-life accounts of growing up, is highlighted on Women’s Health’s list of the 15 best self-help books of 2018. “The book addresses mental wellness, finding purpose, and navigating relationships,” write Jessica Magala and Korin Miller. “And, while no one has the right answers, it helps you see the points of view of four very different people.”
In an essay for Smithsonian, Ryan Smith chronicles how a group of MIT students created the first viral video game in the 1960s. Smith notes that the game, Spacewar!, “proved that video games made with heart could be addicting entertainment, and gave rise to the arcade culture of the decades to follow.”
Graduate student Irene Chen speaks with WGBH’s Living Lab Radio about her work trying to reduce bias in health care algorithms. “The results that we’ve shown from healthcare algorithms are so powerful that we really do need to see how we could implement those carefully, safely, robustly and fairly,” she explains.
Undergraduate Riley Quinn has been named the recipient of the Jerry Nason Award, reports Craig Larson for The Boston Globe. Larson explains that the award is “presented to a senior who succeeds in football against all odds,” adding that Quinn “was a four-year player at MIT, snaring three interceptions.”
WGBH reporter Esteban Bustillos highlights MIT’s football team, which is “having a year for the books.” Head coach Brian Bubna explains that sports can help augment a student’s college experience, noting that “there's a lot of stuff that you can learn on a football field about yourself that you can't learn in a classroom.”
MIT students, who were disappointed by articles depicting AI as a fast-approaching threat, are training AI to create new ideas in fashion, food, art, and dance that are then created by humans, writes Kaveh Waddell of Axios. MIT postdoc Pinar Yanardag, the project founder, envisions a future where humans work with AI to boost their creativity.
Boston Herald reporter John Connolly spotlights the MIT football team, which is undefeated thus far this season. “We have 75 MIT football players. They’re smart. They don’t need us to tell them what to do,” explains coach Brian Bubna. “I’ve been here since 2010 and we’re moving in the right direction.”
As part of the InCube entrepreneurial challenge, a team of MIT students is living in a glass cube for five days as they work on developing a better ambulance, reports Andy Rosen for The Boston Globe. Gene Keselman, executive director of the MIT Innovation Initiative, explains that the glass cube offers passersby a glimpse at what “the entrepreneurial journey looks like.”
CBS Boston highlights five MIT students who are living and working inside a glass cube on the MIT campus for four days as part of an entrepreneurial hackathon focused on developing the ambulance of the future.
Five visiting students are living and working in a glass cube as they work on developing the ambulance of the future as part of an InCube entrepreneurial challenge, reports Jadiann Thompson for WHDH-TV. “The goal is really to make this a four-day intensive stay in the cube,” graduate student Phillippe Nicollier explains.
MIT placed fifth on this year’s Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education ranking of the Top Schools for Student Outcomes, reports Douglas Belkin for The Wall Street Journal. “Outcomes scores are derived from graduation rates, income after graduation, debt repayment and academic reputation,” Belkin explains.