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Letter regarding efforts to chart MIT’s course...

May 15, 2020

The following letter was sent to MIT’s community today by President L. Rafael Reif. To the members of the MIT community, MIT must soon make important decisions about how our community can safely re-emerge. Because those decisions will have cascading impacts for all of us, I want to let you know what to expect in the short term – and to outline the ways we will be seeking your input and asking you to join in thinking through MIT’s...

A data-driven response to a pandemic

May 15, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic continues to challenge how societies and institutions function at macro and micro scales. In the United States, the novel coronavirus has affected everything from the economy to elections — and has raised difficult questions about MIT’s capacity to reopen in the fall. To help policymakers at MIT and beyond make informed decisions, the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS) has formed a volunteer research group, Isolat, that provides analysis of pandemic-related data. “This pandemic has...

MIT student leaders go virtual with global...

May 15, 2020

On April 22, the MIT Water Club hosted its annual Water Innovation Prize Pitch Night, the culminating event of a year-long international competition for student innovators seeking to launch water sector companies. This event, now in its sixth year, normally gathers over 250 people to MIT’s campus to cheer on finalist teams from around the world as they compete for cash awards. Yet, six weeks before the event, when the Water Club would usually be finalizing logistics and collecting...

Achieving advisory equilibrium

May 15, 2020

Converting raw potential into a dissertation is no easy feat. Dependable mentorship can play a profound role in cultivating engaged, capable, and resilient scholars. Professors Paola Cappellaro, Warren Seering, and Lily Tsai have been honored by their graduate students as “Committed to Caring” for their adaptability and stable guidance as advisors, helping their students weather setbacks and continue to find delight in discovery, even in the midst of a pandemic. Paola Cappellaro: Igniting enthusiasm Paola Cappellaro is a professor...

MIT builds community for the Africa Takes...

May 14, 2020

It all started, like so many things recently, with a Zoom call. David Capodilupo, assistant dean for MIT Sloan Global Programs (GP); Bill Carter, award-winning filmmaker, author, teacher, and MIT consultant; and Stu Krusell, senior director at GP, were discussing what they could do to support the fight against Covid-19 in Africa. The need was immense. They talked about leveraging the vast network and resources of MIT to help those on the ground in Africa fighting the virus. The...

“Lean lab” approach enables quick research ramp...

May 14, 2020

When MIT announced in March that most research labs on campus would need to ramp down to help prevent the spread of Covid-19, Canan Dagdeviren’s lab was ready. For the past two years, Dagdeviren and her lab manager, David Sadat, have run the Conformable Decoders Group using “lean lab” management principles, working closely with MIT’s Environment, Health and Safety Office (EHS). Every item in their lab has an assigned function and location, and there are strict procedures in place...

Susan Solomon earns Killian Award, MIT’s highest...

May 13, 2020

Atmospheric chemist Susan Solomon, whose pioneering scientific and environmental policy work has helped to shape international agreements for healing the ozone layer and mitigating climate change, has been named the recipient of the 2020-2021 James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award. The Killian Award is the highest honor the MIT faculty can give to one of its members, to recognize “outstanding contributions to their fields, to MIT, and to society.” “I am truly very, very touched,” Solomon says. “I...

Testing whether uncertified N95 masks are effective

May 13, 2020

Ever since Covid-19 began spreading in the U.S., state governments have been scrambling to find and secure N95 respirator masks, the kind that seal against the face and filter out infectious particles, protecting frontline workers from inhaling the coronavirus. A national shortage has led states to buy these masks from uncertified foreign producers or from producers that sell foreign-certified products. “Every state has had to go and buy whatever they can find,” says William Herzog, an assistant leader of...

SMART researchers uncover new anti-phage defense mechanisms

May 13, 2020

Researchers from Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, have discovered a new anti-phage defense mechanism found in some bacteria, which use previously unknown features to protect their DNA. The groundbreaking discovery enables scientists to overcome existing challenges in bacterial resistance to antibiotics. The growing antimicrobial resistance is a major concern for the global health community, and phage therapy is an important pillar in combating bacterial infections. Bacteriophages, an effective alternative to fight bacteria...

Virtual hackathon unites international community to tackle...

May 13, 2020

A team of competitors cluster around a laptop screen; their table is decorated with snacks, caffeinated drinks, and scribbled Post-it notes. Stationed inside a large room with 100 other participants for 48 hours, they battle it out at HealthHACK. The place is buzzing and the energy is intense. This was the scene last year at MIT Hong Kong Innovation Node’s annual hackathon. This year, the event took a virtual pivot when the Covid-19 outbreak went into full swing. Undaunted...

Informing Covid-19 preparedness in Sierra Leone

May 13, 2020

As Covid-19 continues to spread, governments in West Africa have been working to meet the virus head-on. In Sierra Leone, the government took measures back in December 2019 to quarantine all travelers from countries reporting Covid-19 cases and travelers with high temperatures. With limited public health infrastructure, slowing the spread has been critical to protecting their population of nearly 8 million. In late March, Sierra Leone confirmed the first case in-country, put in place a temporary lockdown, and convened...

Study finds “volume dial” for turning neural...

May 13, 2020

Neuroscientists at MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory have found that a protein acts like a volume dial for the release of neurotransmitters, the chemicals that neurons release across connections called synapses to stimulate muscles or communicate with other neurons in brain circuits. The findings help explain how synapses work and could better inform understanding of some neurological disorders. Working in the model of fruit flies, the team determined that the protein Synaptotagmin 7 (SYT7), which is also...

Art connects a community in quarantine

May 13, 2020

Below the concrete sidewalks and pathways between MIT Buildings 66 and E17 lies a labyrinth of tunnels and The Borderline Mural Project, a 200-foot-long installment of more than 60 murals painted by MIT-affiliated artists. What once was one of MIT’s busiest underground corridors and destinations is now quietly abandoned in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Inspired by the Corona Maison art project, MIT students from The Borderline club developed a virtual tunnel called Tunnel66 to reconnect the MIT...

Protecting seafarers and the global supply chain...

May 12, 2020

The offshore and shipping industries are grappling with unique challenges in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus’ rapid spread on ships like the Diamond Princess and USS Theodore Roosevelt highlighted the health risks that the 1.2 million workers currently at sea face. Travel restrictions and closed borders offer an additional challenge by not only disrupting the global supply chain, but preventing scheduled crew changeovers from taking place. To address these issues, the UN Global Compact Action Platform...

Climate knowledge for everyone

May 12, 2020

MIT Professor Kerry Emanuel has made it a personal mission to speak publicly about climate change. He felt a new and surprising duty to speak up after the scientific issue became politicized in the United States. In fact, political identity is the number one indicator of whether or not an American agrees with the irrefutable science of climate change. “The only remedy I can see is for scientists to make more effort to inform the public with hard evidence,...

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