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  Design central

  The MIT Morningside Academy for Design will create a hub for design education, research, and entrepreneurship on campus. The interdisciplinary careers of its faculty directors, John Ochsendorf and Maria Yang ’91, offer a glimpse of the possibilities in store.
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  The toxic chemicals all around us

  As part of the MIT Superfund Research Program, Nicolette Bugher is working to expose the poisons lurking in our environment and discover what they mean for human health.
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  The poets of McCormick Hall 

  A group of MIT students met to share their stories through poetry. Here’s a sampling from the book of poems they published.
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  Turning MIT inside-out

  The new MIT Museum in Kendall Square is all about making MIT and its ground-breaking research accessible to all.
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  Workouts in a pill?

  Charting cellular effects of exercise confirms its link to health benefits—and could lead to anti-obesity drugs.
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  Sound-powered camera

  Designed for undersea use, the device could operate autonomously for weeks.
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  What’s in an asteroid

  Astronomers looking to prevent asteroids from hitting us have a new tool that reveals their interior structure.
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  A new crop of awards

  MIT people win a Nobel and two MacArthurs.
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  Recent books from the MIT community

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