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4 weeks ago | 
thetech.com | Veronika Moroz |Karie Shen |Alex Tang
Green: “Keeping oriented toward people – not building around them as an obstacle, but building for them – is the thing that I wanted to be focused on”On May 29 at the OneMIT Commencement Ceremony, science communicator Hank Green delivered the commencement speech to the graduating class of 2025: silly but pensive, scientific yet humanistic. Green openly engaged with the graduating class, joking that some people were seated close enough to the podium that he could almost “crowd-work” them.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen |Alex Tang
Mavalvala: “MIT has a place of trust in society when it comes to the work that we produce and the students that we produce.”Dean Nergis Mavalvala PhD ’97 has made remarkable contributions to the Institute since becoming faculty in the Department of Physics in 2002 and becoming the School of Science Dean in 2020.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Alex Tang |Karie Shen
The Institute launched the MIT Human Insight Collaborative (MITHIC), an initiative seeking to promote intersectionality between faculty in the humanities, arts, and social sciences and their peers across MIT in a formal kickoff event on Oct. 28.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen
In an Oct 10 email to members of the Broad Institute community, Todd Golub, the Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard announced the layoff of 87 employees, 75 of whom were part of the Data Sciences Platform and IT departments. The layoffs coincide with the end of a partnership with Microsoft that resulted in Terra, a computational platform for researchers to access data and conduct biomedical analyses.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen
Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson PhD ’89, and James A. Robinson shared the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2024 "for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity." Their work traces increased prosperity in nations today back to having more inclusive institutions during the colonial period. Acemoglu is an Institute Professor in the Department of Economics. Johnson received his PhD in Economics at MIT in 1989 and is the Ronald A.
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Aug 22, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen
C. elegans is a little roundworm, about a millimeter long and barely visible to the naked eye. And it only has 302 brain cells. Steven Flavell is an associate professor at MIT in the department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, as well as an investigator in the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory. He was recently named an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), along with three other MIT professors.
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Jul 9, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen
“Research assistant in a box” will be available to the public, and free for academics and nonprofit organizations. The journey of turning data into a scientific story is one of the quintessential processes of discovery and research. OmicsWeb, a bioinformatics copilot launched on July 8 by a start-up headed by former MIT and Rice University faculty, might serve as the guide for many journeys with RNA sequencing data. OmicsWeb, like ChatGPT, is a conversational virtual assistant.
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May 30, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen
For the first time, MIT’s Catalyst Fellowship welcomes undergraduates to participate in healthcare needs identification through a PKG IAP program. For MIT undergraduates, the Independent Activities Period (IAP) might involve a restful month at home, a research internship, or an ice skating class for physical education requirements. This year, a brand-new opportunity fell into the lap of a few students: Catalyst, a program at MIT geared towards accelerating health innovation.
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May 9, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen |Alex Tang
Altman: “This is probably the most exciting time to be launching your career in many decades.”On May 2, over 1,000 members of the MIT community sat in Kresge’s Swraj Paul Theater to hear from Sam Altman, co-founder and CEO of OpenAI in an event called ChatMIT hosted by President Sally Kornbluth. Kornbluth posed many questions surrounding AI, including mitigating bias in training models, protecting user privacy, and optimizing energy usage.
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May 9, 2024 | 
thetech.com | Karie Shen |Alex Tang
Referendum #2 speakers call for an ad hoc committee “to handle the interpretation and implementation of the referendum.”In the 2024 Undergraduate Association (UA) elections, Referendum 2 passed with three terms: to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, to condemn the suspension of the Coalition Against Apartheid (CAA), and to terminate ties with the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
