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A new record for Math Prize for Girls wins

https://news.mit.edu/2023/florida-student-breaks-record-math-prize-girls-wins-1023

Light-activated muscle grafts show promise in aiding muscle recovery post-trauma

https://news.mit.edu/2023/light-activated-muscle-grafts-show-promise-aiding-muscle-recovery-post-trauma-1030

Engineers develop an efficient process to make fuel from carbon dioxide

https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-develop-efficient-fuel-process-carbon-dioxide-1030

New techniques efficiently accelerate sparse tensors for massive AI models

https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-techniques-efficiently-accelerate-sparse-tensors-1030

Accelerating AI tasks while preserving data security

https://news.mit.edu/2023/accelerating-ai-tasks-while-preserving-data-security-1030

The brain may learn about the world the same way some computational models do

https://news.mit.edu/2023/brain-self-supervised-computational-models-1030

John Coates on His Book, The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Ins...

https://youtu.be/JZOaxmcbNcg?si=A6rKilEcHpp5ZgBI

Structural Conflicts in Central Banking | Wharton Initiative on Financial Policy and Regulation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1iL6rGr7lk

3 Questions: A roadmap toward circularity in the footwear industry

https://news.mit.edu/2023/3-questions-roadmap-toward-footwear-circularity-1027

MIT’s Justin Yu wins Classic Tetris World Championship

https://news.mit.edu/2023/justin-yu-wins-tetris-world-championship-1027

Badreddine Ouali: Creating a Culture of Empowerment and Purpose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AR4YrDadD0

Turning engineers into well-rounded communicators

https://news.mit.edu/2023/turning-engineers-well-rounded-communicators-1027

Shark Tank’s Mr. Wonderful and HBS

https://youtube.com/shorts/89F6Svuc11s?si=LR5P_WCmROR_AeY_

A marvel in masonry shows the art of the possible

https://news.mit.edu/2023/marvel-masonry-lookout-sculpture-1027

Books under attack, then and now

https://news.mit.edu/2023/books-under-attack-then-and-now-1026

Rafael Mariano Grossi speaks about nuclear power’s role at a critical moment in history

https://news.mit.edu/2023/rafael-mariano-grossi-speaks-about-nuclear-powers-role-1026

School of Engineering third quarter 2023 awards

https://news.mit.edu/2023/school-engineering-third-quarter-awards-1026

Morphing fabrics

https://youtube.com/shorts/n9n8TqGAtP4?si=gyNHkj9-pEooi3bk

How adults understand what kids are saying

https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-adults-understand-what-kids-are-saying-1026

Making genetic prediction models more inclusive

https://news.mit.edu/2023/making-genetic-prediction-models-more-inclusive-1026

Regulation of Digital Assets with Waleed Y.W. Haj Hasan | Stevens Center FinTech Lecture Series

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCQ_97sCWJc

Morphing fabrics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9n8TqGAtP4

Shape-shifting fiber can produce morphing fabrics

https://youtu.be/BLXu9fIfZzk?si=WR61vHOhB3pCi4_3

Shape-shifting fiber can produce morphing fabrics

https://news.mit.edu/2023/shape-shifting-fiber-can-produce-morphing-fabrics-1026

Eight high school teams named Lemelson-MIT InvenTeams for 2023-24

https://news.mit.edu/2023/high-school-teams-named-lemelson-mit-inventeams-1025

Morris Chang ’52, SM ’53 describes the secrets of semiconductor success

https://news.mit.edu/2023/morris-chang-describes-secrets-semiconductor-success-1025

Learning to Sail With Wharton's McNulty Leadership Program

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xc84PtEi9g

Bright flash leads astronomers to a heavy-metal factory 900 million light years away

https://news.mit.edu/2023/bright-flash-leads-astronomers-tellurium-detection-1025

Smart irrigation technology covers “more crop per drop”

https://news.mit.edu/2023/gear-lab-creates-affordable-user-driven-smart-irrigation-controller-1025

Faculty Recognition

https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/faculty-recognition.aspx

Mobilizing creative learning with OctoStudio

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mobilizing-creative-learning-octostudio-1024

Four from MIT awarded National Medals of Technology, Science

https://news.mit.edu/2023/national-medals-technology-science-recipients-1024

Bringing the environment to the forefront of engineering

https://news.mit.edu/2023/desiree-plata-sustainability-engineering-1024

Q&A: Magnifying research impact with policymakers

https://news.mit.edu/2023/qa-drew-story-mit-policy-lab-1023 Sent from my iPhone

Celebrating Kendall Square’s past and shaping its future

https://news.mit.edu/2023/celebrating-kendall-squares-past-and-shaping-future-1023 Sent from my iPhone

LIGO surpasses the quantum limit

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ligo-surpasses-quantum-limit-1023

Opening pathways for future supply chain leaders

https://news.mit.edu/2023/maria-jesus-saenz-opening-pathways-future-supply-chain-leaders-1020

Building on an enduring bond

https://news.mit.edu/2023/an-enduring-bond-mit-and-tuskeegee-university-1020

Teaching students about photonics to build up the US workforce

https://news.mit.edu/2023/teaching-students-about-photonics-spark-foundation-1020

Learning how to learn

https://news.mit.edu/2023/learning-how-to-learn-model-thinking-1019

Soft optical fibers block pain while moving and stretching with the body

https://news.mit.edu/2023/soft-optical-fibers-nerve-related-pain-1019

To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds

https://news.mit.edu/2023/generative-ai-must-innovate-engineering-design-1019

3 Questions: What should scientists and the public know about nuclear waste?

https://news.mit.edu/2023/3-questions-knowing-about-nuclear-waste-1019

A new way to integrate data with physical objects

https://news.mit.edu/2023/structcode-new-way-integrate-data-physical-objects-1018

Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu Wins A.SK Social Science Award

https://news.mit.edu/2023/daron-acemoglu-wins-ask-social-science-award-1018

Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYjJnwEryh4

From a five-layer graphene sandwich, a rare electronic state emerges

https://news.mit.edu/2023/five-layer-graphene-sandwich-rare-electronic-behavior-1018

Edward Crawley: A career of education, service, and exploration

https://news.mit.edu/2023/career-education-service-exploration-edward-crawley-1017

Germicidal UV lights could be producing indoor air pollutants, study finds

https://news.mit.edu/2023/germicidal-uv-lights-could-be-producing-indoor-air-pollutants-1017

New technique helps robots pack objects into a tight space

https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-technique-helps-robots-pack-objects-tight-space-1017

Ariel Furst and Fan Wang receive 2023 National Institutes of Health awards

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-researchers-receive-nih-awards-1016

Designing a revolution

https://news.mit.edu/2023/designing-revolution-1002

A method to interpret AI might not be so interpretable after all

https://news.mit.edu/2023/method-interpret-ai-might-not-be-so-interpretable-after-all-1016

Study: Deep neural networks don’t see the world the way we do

https://news.mit.edu/2023/study-deep-neural-networks-perception-1016

Students Foster Disability Awareness and Access

https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/disability-awareness-and-access.aspx

MIT design would harness 40 percent of the sun’s heat to produce clean hydrogen fuel

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-design-harness-suns-heat-produce-clean-hydrogen-fuel-1016

question for MIT: can dogs do quantum computation ??

Jesse Kroll recognized for excellence in postdoctoral mentoring

https://news.mit.edu/2023/jesse-kroll-recognized-excellence-postdoctoral-mentoring-1013

At MIT, used books help enable public service

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-used-books-help-enable-public-service-1013

Thousands of programmable DNA-cutters found in algae, snails, and other organisms

https://news.mit.edu/2023/thousands-programmable-dna-cutters-found-algae-snails-other-organisms-1013

From MIT to Burning Man: The Living Knitwork Pavilion

https://news.mit.edu/2023/from-mit-to-burning-man-living-knitwork-pavilion-1013

Targeting a coronavirus ion channel could yield new Covid-19 drugs

https://news.mit.edu/2023/targeting-coronavirus-ion-channel-could-yield-new-covid-19-drugs-1013

New Faculty Profiles: Jacob Cook

https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/jacob-cook-profile-2023.aspx

Cleaning up one of the world’s most commonly used substances

https://news.mit.edu/2023/cleaning-common-substance-cement-alternative-1013

MakerLodge: A launchpad for hands-on learning

https://news.mit.edu/2023/makerlodge-launchpad-hands-on-learning-1012

Organizing “spaghetti” software so it can be easily modified

https://news.mit.edu/2023/silverthread-organizing-spaghetti-software-1012

Nathaniel Hendren wants to understand the conditions of opportunity

https://news.mit.edu/2023/nathaniel-hendren-social-mobility-1012

Physicists coax superconductivity and more from quasicrystals

https://news.mit.edu/2023/physicists-coax-superconductivity-from-quasicrystals-1011

Study advances understanding of visual recognition memory

https://news.mit.edu/2023/resolving-seeming-contradiction-study-advances-understanding-visual-recognition-memory-0929

Solve Challenge Finals 2023: Action in service to the world

https://news.mit.edu/2023/solve-challenge-finals-action-service-world-1011

Recovering a treasure trove in MIT’s student center

https://news.mit.edu/2023/recovering-treasure-trove-mit-student-center-1011

Beyond words

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGWL_2xm7C4

Practicing mindfulness with an app may improve children’s mental health

https://news.mit.edu/2023/practicing-mindfulness-may-improve-childrens-mental-health-1011

With Psyche, a journey to an ancient asteroid is set to begin

https://news.mit.edu/2023/psyche-journey-ancient-asteroid-begins-1011

Twelve with MIT ties elected to the National Academy of Medicine for 2023

https://news.mit.edu/2023/researchers-elected-national-academy-medicine-1010

HBS Career Journeys | Matt Hartsog (MS/MBA 2023)

https://youtu.be/M8-_P5JjMfQ?si=1gK2x72AOf8yY0X3 Sent from my iPhone

Making more magnetism possible with topology

https://news.mit.edu/2023/making-more-magnetism-possible-topology-1010

Curiosity Unbounded, Ep. 5: Beyond words

https://youtu.be/bp9e7pVTshw?si=eceOxJNkd7CHlpe6 Sent from my iPhone

One of MIT’s “best-kept secrets” offers an outlet for creative writing

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-best-kept-secret-writers-group-1010

Boom, crackle, pop: Sounds of Earth’s crust

https://news.mit.edu/2023/boom-crackle-pop-earth-crust-sounds-1009

J. Scott Armstrong

https://news.wharton.upenn.edu/in-memoriam/2023/10/j-scott-armstrong/

MIT releases financials and endowment figures for 2023

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-releases-financials-and-endowment-figures-1006

2023 Nobel Prize in Economics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUxs7lYgzAI

New Faculty Profiles: Louis E. Caldera

https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/louis-caldera-profile-2023.aspx

New Faculty Profiles: Gerald Chertavian

https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/gerald-chertavian-profile-2023.aspx

New Faculty Profiles: Emanuele Colonnelli

https://www.hbs.edu/news/articles/Pages/emanuele-colonnelli-profile-2023.aspx

Empowering students to bring change in the Middle East

https://news.mit.edu/2023/empowering-students-meet-program-1006

Redefining Speed And Trust: A Conversation With Frances Frei And Anne Morriss On Their New Book

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niharchhaya/2023/10/05/redefining-speed-and-trust-a-conversation-with-frances-frei-and-anne-morriss-on-their-new-book/?sh=ad068ab4a57f Sent from my iPhone

A reciprocal relationship with the land in Hawaiʻi

https://news.mit.edu/2023/aja-grande-reciprocal-relationship-hawaii-1005 Sent from my iPhone

New tools are available to help reduce the energy that AI models devour

https://news.mit.edu/2023/new-tools-available-reduce-energy-that-ai-models-devour-1005

MIT SHASS Diversity Predoctoral Fellowship Program welcomes 2023-24 class

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-shass-diversity-predoctoral-fellowship-program-welcomes-new-class-1005

The art of science and the science of art

https://news.mit.edu/2023/art-science-and-science-art-1005

Professor Moungi Bawendi awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2023

https://youtube.com/shorts/t6DE1E3lHSk?si=xK9i5HHZyA1hLP_H Sent from my iPhone

Photos: Moungi Bawendi’s first day as a Nobel laureate

https://news.mit.edu/2023/photos-moungi-bawendi-first-day-as-nobel-laureate-1004

HBS Career Journeys | Maggie Yang

https://youtu.be/LTrLya9aUks?si=i2izfhpCqfVVMESN Sent from my iPhone

HBS Career Journeys | Mariah Cushman

https://youtu.be/L2vZubneKOo?si=QPL1TIUrof3sD4gp Sent from my iPhone

2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Moungi Bawendi of MIT

https://youtu.be/WiJi4Aa0NO4?si=eKv97SefmOPx7_j_ Sent from my iPhone

Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots

https://news.mit.edu/2023/finger-shaped-sensor-enables-more-dexterous-robots-1004 Sent from my iPhone

How a single neuron’s parallel outputs can coordinate many aspects of behavior

https://news.mit.edu/2023/how-single-neurons-parallel-outputs-can-coordinate-many-aspects-behavior-1003

Fellowship program empowers Nigerian academics to transform engineering education in their local universities

https://news.mit.edu/2023/fellowship-program-empowers-nigerian-academics-transform-engineering-education-1003

AI copilot enhances human precision for safer aviation

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-co-pilot-enhances-human-precision-safer-aviation-1002

@MIT @HBS @Wharton @saudiarabia - see https://www.saudiarabia3.com/2023/10/lets-close-researcheducation-via-riyadh.html

How China-West Tensions Will Shape Global Markets

https://www.reuters.com/markets/how-china-west-tensions-will-shape-global-markets-2023-10-02/

Eliminating Algorithmic Bias Is Just the Beginning of Equitable AI

https://hbr.org/2023/09/eliminating-algorithmic-bias-is-just-the-beginning-of-equitable-ai

Research: In Recessions, Employees Avoid Jobs with Startups

https://hbr.org/2023/09/research-in-recessions-employees-avoid-jobs-with-startups

“A whole world of potential learners and potential knowledge to gain”

https://news.mit.edu/2023/mit-digital-learning-lab-advances-digital-learning-1002

Improving accessibility of online graphics for blind users

https://news.mit.edu/2023/improving-accessibility-online-graphics-blind-users-jonathan-zong-1002

Finding solidarity in the teachers’ lounge

https://news.mit.edu/2023/elizabeth-parker-magyar-finding-solidarity-teachers-lounge-1002

Sunset from Huntsman Hall 8th Floor | The Wharton School

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3WmnGPTfJc

A more effective experimental design for engineering a cell into a new state

https://news.mit.edu/2023/more-effective-experimental-design-genome-regulation-1002

Is AI in the eye of the beholder?

https://news.mit.edu/2023/ai-eye-beholder-chatbot-motives-1002

Wharton MBA Olympics 2023

https://youtube.com/shorts/xS60Cc-S6OY?si=hTxbhv7bP9ripnQH Sent from my iPhone

One scientist’s journey from the Middle East to MIT

https://news.mit.edu/2023/scientists-journey-from-syria-to-mit-ubadah-sabbagh-1001