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How Should We Teach the Teachers?

July 2016

MIT rethinks education for the 21st century.

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- Making It Easy to Make Apps
  A programming tool gives children the ability to build their own apps—and solve social problems.
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- Reinterpreting the Human Genome
  Manolis Kellis helped lead a major effort to map the chemical tags that cells use to get their instructions from DNA.
  Categorized in MIT News feature
- Letters
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- A Spreadsheet’s Star Turn
  Spotlight gave data geeks a moment of glory.
  Categorized in My view
- A Moving Celebration
  MIT marked the centennial of its move from Boston to Cambridge with a parade, a pageant, dance parties—and of course, fireworks.
  Categorized in Seen on campus
- Prosper and Live Longer
  New study shows huge mortality gap between rich and poor.
  Categorized in 77 Mass Ave
- Ingestible Origami Robot
  Robot unfolds, removes button battery from simulated stomach.
  Categorized in 77 Mass Ave
- From the President: Help MIT Make a Better World
  Launching our second century in Cambridge—and our campaign.
  Categorized in 77 Mass Ave
- Earthlike Exoplanets
  Scientists discover potentially habitable planets just 40 light-years from Earth.
  Categorized in 77 Mass Ave
- Just-in-Time Pharmacy
  System can make small batches of drugs on demand.
  Categorized in 77 Mass Ave
- Making High Tech from Coal
  Jeffrey Grossman sees this fossil fuel as a raw material for electronics.
  Categorized in 77 Mass Ave
- Cyber Insecurity
  The history of cyberwarfare goes back further than you’d think.
  Categorized in Meet the author
- The Tiny Switch That Almost Made It Big
  A superconducting switch seemed destined to replace computers’ vacuum tubes before semiconductors won the day.
  Categorized in 1865
- MIT Campaign for a Better World
  Institute unites to help solve global problems.
  Categorized in Alumni connection
- Meet the President
  New MITAA leader Nicolas E. Chammas, SM ’87, brings global reach.
  Categorized in Alumni connection
- Chan Rogers, SM ’51
  Untangling Boston’s major highways—twice.
  Categorized in Alumni profile
- Henry Heines ’67
  Engineer turned patent attorney clarifies law for inventors.
  Categorized in Alumni profile
- Christopher Janney, SM ’78
  Music + architecture = urban musical instruments.
  Categorized in Alumni profile
- Kevin Mayer ’84
  Disney strategist led Pixar acquisition.
  Categorized in Alumni profile
- Peggy Liu ’90
  Steering China toward sustainability with an innovative nonprofit organization.
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- Tina P. Srivastava ’09, SM ’12, PhD ’15
  High flyer to secure the Internet of things.
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- Puzzle Corner
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- Adrianna Ma ’95, MEng ’96
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