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Putting ideas into action

January/February 2022

MIT’s new chancellor, Melissa Nobles, laid a foundation for leadership through her groundbreaking research on politics and racial justice. 

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    Putting ideas into action

    MIT’s new chancellor laid a foundation for leadership through her groundbreaking research on politics and racial justice.

  • Categorized in MIT News: Feature story

    Better democracy through technology

    Can machines make us better citizens and conversationalists? Deb Roy thinks so.

  • Categorized in MIT News: Feature story

    The work of the future

    Building better jobs in an age of intelligent machines.

  • Categorized in From the president

    A maker mindset

    Not all the tools we develop at MIT are physical—but that does not diminish their power and potential.

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    Another economics Nobel

    MIT labor economist Joshua Angrist was honored for his work on “natural experiments” that make the field more empirically rigorous.

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    David Julius ’77 wins Nobel

    The MIT grad shared the prize for discoveries about the nervous system.

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    Planetary smashup

    Astronomers found compelling evidence for a type of giant collision never directly observed.

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    The pointiest path

    The shortest route between two points is a straight line, but your brain may have other priorities.

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    Coaching from clothing

    Fibers that act as artificial muscles could help singers, athletes, and others learn to control their breathing.

  • Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

    A new angle on immunotherapy

    Cancer cells injured by chemotherapy can be harnessed to unleash the immune system against tumors in mice.

  • Categorized in MIT News: 77 Mass Ave

    A robot to find lost stuff

    Isn’t this what we all need?

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    A gene that keeps the brain sharp?

    New findings may help explain why mental stimulation makes Alzheimer’s and age-related dementia less likely.

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