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It was an eventful journey across the solar for MIT this yr, from President Sally Kornbluth’s inauguration and Mark Rober’s Commencement deal with to Professor Moungi Bawendi profitable the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 2023 MIT researchers made key advances, detecting a dying star swallowing a planet, exploring the frontiers of synthetic intelligence, creating clear […] More

MIT neighborhood members can study extra in regards to the Israel-Hamas battle via a lately developed on-line course organized by Middle East and North Africa (MENA)/MIT at MIT’s Center for International Studies. The three-session course, titled “Israel, Palestine, Gaza earlier than and after October 7: Understanding historic context and contrasting narratives,” was first held between […] More

Paul Parravano, who labored for 33 years to construct enduring MIT connections with elected officers and the local people, died at his dwelling in Arlington, Massachusetts on Dec. 9. Parravano, who was 71, was recognized with pancreatic most cancers shortly after retiring in January from his full-time work as co-director of MIT’s Office of Government […] More

On Nov. 7, a workforce from the Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine at MIT confirmed a Washington viewers a number of examples of how nanotechnologies developed on the Institute can rework the detection and remedy of most cancers and different ailments. The workforce was one among 40 progressive teams featured at “American Possibilities: A White […] More

Providing a useful resource for U.S. policymakers, a committee of MIT leaders and students has launched a set of policy briefs that outlines a framework for the governance of synthetic intelligence. The strategy contains extending present regulatory and legal responsibility approaches in pursuit of a sensible technique to oversee AI. The goal of the papers […] More

Hottest day on report. Hottest month on report. Extreme marine heatwaves. Record-low Antarctic sea-ice. While El Niño is a short-term issue on this 12 months’s record-breaking warmth, human-caused local weather change is the long-term driver. And as world warming edges nearer to 1.5 levels Celsius — the aspirational higher restrict set within the Paris Agreement […] More

Investments in new applied sciences and infrastucture that assist scale back greenhouse gasoline emissions — every thing from electrical autos to warmth pumps — are rising quickly within the United States. Now, a brand new database allows these investments to be comprehensively monitored in real-time, thereby serving to to evaluate the efficacy of insurance policies […] More

Imagine if France, Germany, and Spain have been fully blanketed in forests — after which all these timber have been shortly chopped down. That’s almost the quantity of deforestation that occurred globally between 2001 and 2020, with profound penalties. Deforestation is a serious contributor to local weather change, producing between 6 and 17 p.c of […] More

Encouraging immigrants to go to main care docs creates a hanging decline in expensive emergency room use, in accordance with a brand new research co-authored by an MIT economist. The findings are from a New York City program that helped organize medical appointments for undocumented immigrants with restricted incomes, from May 2016 to June 2017. […] More

Mariama N’Diaye, a design fellow on the MIT Morningside Academy for Design (MAD), works to remodel the general public sector by design pondering and innovation. With a various background in city planning and enterprise administration — she’s pursuing a twin grasp’s diploma on the Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP) and the MIT Sloan […] More

From Oct. 23-24, a delegation consisting of 21 MIT college students, one MIT postdoc, and 4 college students from the University of the District of Columbia met in Washington for the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s Executive Visit Days (ExVD). Now in its thirteenth cycle, this journey gives a platform the place college college students and […] More

On a crisp Tuesday afternoon, representatives from MIT, the state and federal authorities, and the Cambridge neighborhood celebrated the official opening of the brand new John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Kendall Square. The ribbon-cutting ceremony was the end result of practically a decade of collaboration through which MIT designed and constructed the […] More