Tag: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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    ‘I realized that I couldn’t say no — not because of personal ambition, but given the moment.’

    Harvard’s 29th president shares memories and lessons from his early life and career.

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    Larry Bacow.
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    Meat and muscles, sure. But the human eye is a stretch, for now.

    The author and MIT professor Ritu Raman discussed the promise and ethical challenges of a lab-shaped future.

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    Lab-grown burger.
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    Agonizing over school-reopening plans? Think Marie Kondo

    A recent report released by researchers from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology outlines how schools grappling with online and in-person teaching options and making up for lost time can think creatively about reopening.

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    Illustration from report.
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    Melissa Dell wins 2020 Clark Medal

    Harvard economist Melissa Dell has received the 2020 John Bates Clark Medal. The annual award, administered by the American Economic Association, honors an “American economist under the age of forty who is judged to have made the most significant contribution to economic thought and knowledge.”

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    Melissa Dell.
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    Innovating an innovation

    HubWeek fall festival takes place Oct. 1‒3 in Boston’s Seaport District.

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    Hubweek event
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    Prospects clouded for finding life on the largest class of planets

    Led by Laura Kreidberg, a Clay Fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a new study shows that LHS 3844b, a terrestrial exoplanet orbiting a small sun 48.6 light-years away, has no detectable atmosphere

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    planet is depicted as being largely covered with dark basalt plains.
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    A pioneering mind for the power of design

    As a sophomore at Wellesley College, Adele Fleet Bacow was attracted to architecture and art. Soon, after enrolling in a course on urban sociology, she found a passion that combined…

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    Trusted voice among leaders in higher education

    Harvard’s next president, Lawrence Bacow, is known among his peers in higher ed as someone they can turn to for advice.

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    Lawrence S. Bacow
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    At HUBweek, ideas for living

    With a wide array of events at the intersection of science, technology, arts, and ethics, HUBweek returns to Boston for a second year. Harvard, one of HUBweek’s founders, will host 14 of the 115 events.

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    Asteroid mission will carry student X-ray experiment

    At 7:05 p.m. (EDT) today, NASA plans to launch a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Among that spacecraft’s five instruments is a student experiment that will use X-rays to help determine Bennu’s surface composition.

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    Strength in love, hope in science

    Husband and wife Eric Minikel and Sonia Vallabh have found a home at the Broad Institute to work toward a treatment for her fatal disease.

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    It was California or bust

    A group of Harvard and MIT students has pedaled its way to the Pacific Ocean from Washington, D.C., with stops along the way to lead science “learning festivals” to promote STEM learning among children.

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    Smarter by the minute, sort of

    New research from Harvard and MIT shows that different cognitive skills peak at different times in lifespan.

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    Pointing toward Athens 2.0

    Harvard will partner with Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and The Boston Globe for a new, weeklong festival of big ideas and bold solutions next October.

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    A journey into illness

    Poet and memoirist Meghan O’Rourke is using her time as a Radcliffe Fellow to write “What’s Wrong With Me,” a chronicle of her struggles with autoimmune disease.

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    Murders in Mexico

    Two Harvard affiliates are launching a Boston-area program of talks, videos, and discussion over the implications of 43 “disappeared” students in Mexico.

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    Art’s shining future

    The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums reopen on Nov. 16 with a new building designed by Italian architect Renzo Piano that unites the Fogg Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum, and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum under one shining glass roof.

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    Material gain

    A team of scientists from Harvard University and MIT has developed a theoretical model of a material that could one day anchor the development of highly efficient solar panels.

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    Diabetes’ genetic variety

    Harvard researchers working at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have uncovered nine rare genetic mutations that dramatically increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The discovery of the mutations highlights the dizzying genetic diversity of a disease rapidly spreading around the world.

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    Taking stock of sustainability efforts

    A conference co-hosted by Harvard looked at the future of sustainability efforts at universities and other large institutions.

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    Bridging science and religion

    Divinity School graduate Shelley Brown is combining her love for science and religion to help stitch together two fields that rarely seem to meet.

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    A light touch for Rothko murals

    Abstract artist Mark Rothko’s series of Harvard murals will be displayed in November using a digital technology that casts light on the paintings to restore their faded colors.

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    Business School expands online

    Harvard Business School has announced the launch of HBX, a digital learning initiative aimed at broadening the School’s reach and deepening its impact. In HBX, the School has created an innovative platform to support the delivery of distinctive online business-focused offerings.

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    Wearing technology

    MIT Professor Rosalind Picard and a team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab have created a wristband that can gauge a person’s emotional response to stimuli or situations by tapping skin conductance, an indicator of the state of the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the body’s flight-or-fight response by ramping up responses like heart…

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    Sizing up the Big Bang

    Four experts, including Nobel Prize winner Robert Wilson, came together for a CfA program titled “50 Years After the Discovery of the Big Bang.”

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    A lab focused on healing

    Robert Langer of MIT shared his hopes for bioengineering in a talk at Radcliffe.

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    Harvard and MIT release working papers on open online learning

    Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today released a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. Run in 2012 and 2013, the courses drew upon diverse topics — from ancient Greek poetry to electromagnetism — and an array of disciplines, including public health, engineering, and law.

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    Bio-inspired glue keeps hearts securely sealed

    The waterproof, light-activated glue developed by researchers at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Boston and their colleagues at MIT can successfully secure biodegradable patches to seal holes in a beating heart.

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    Ludwig Cancer Research awards HMS $90M

    Ludwig Cancer Research, on behalf of its founder, Daniel K. Ludwig, has given Harvard Medical School $90 million to spur innovative scientific inquiry and discovery. According to the Ludwig announcement, this new financial support is among the largest private gifts ever for cancer research.

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    The search for other Earths

    Scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are drafting the target list for NASA’s next planet-finding telescope, the orbiting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, which will search the Earth’s galactic neighborhood for planets that might support life.

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