Author: Ms. R.

How does a small startup go head to head with the country’s largest IT consulting firms, growing rapidly and securing clients like AIG, Berkshire Hathaway, and WarnerMedia in the process? For the quality engineering startup Ultranauts, the answer lies in the power of its cognitively diverse workforce. More than 75 percent of the company’s employees are on the autism spectrum, allowing Ultranauts to tap into the unique strengths of each team member as it helps large enterprises and mature startups……

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Fikile Brushett, an MIT associate professor of chemical engineering, had an unusual source of inspiration for his career in the chemical sciences: the character played by Nicolas Cage in the 1996 movie “The Rock.” In the film, Cage portrays an FBI chemist who hunts down a group of rogue U.S. soldiers who have commandeered chemical weapons and taken over the island of Alcatraz. “For a really long time, I really wanted to be a chemist and work for the……

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An air of uncertainty descended on MIT’s campus in early March. Whispers and rumors about campus closing down swirled in the hallways. Students convened en masse on Killian Court to dance, hug, and cry as they were told they had until the end of the week to vacate campus. Within days, the Infinite Corridor’s usual stream of activity and noise was silenced. While MIT’s dorms and classrooms became unnervingly quiet, there was a thrum of activity among faculty and……

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The first issue of Rooted: A Sense of Belonging pays tribute to individual immigration stories through a collection of art, poems, and photos. Each piece breathes life into raw and personal accounts of adversity, resilience, and pride of Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage. “Our contributors have poured their dreams, hardships, and success into artistic expression,” says Olivia Yao ’20, magazine editor and recent MIT alum. “I encourage everyone to read every single piece in this publication. Embrace their……

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Methane, the main component of natural gas, is the cleanest-burning of all the fossil fuels, but when emitted into the atmosphere it is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. By some estimates, seafloor methane contained in frozen formations along the continental margins may equal or exceed the total amount of coal, oil, and gas in all other reservoirs worldwide. Yet, the way methane escapes from these deep formations is poorly understood. In particular, scientists have been……

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Joshua Cohen, a member of the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future Research Advisory Board and a distinguished senior fellow in law, philosophy, and political science at the University of California at Berkeley recently wrote a research brief, “Good Jobs,” that describes the qualities inherent in “good jobs” and how they fit into a larger world of education, training, consumption, finance, firm organization, and worker representation. Here, Cohen describes some of the main takeaways from his brief,……

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