Features

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  The productive career of Robert Solow

  Sure, he won a Nobel for his research on technology, productivity, and growth. But his legacy as a mentor is equally remarkable.

  
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  The first-year experiments

  Incoming students were so focused on fulfilling requirements that they had no time to explore their interests—and felt unprepared to declare their majors. Solving the problem became the topic of a class. And in true MIT fashion, students are now testing the most promising solutions.

  
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  Answering the climate call

  With the impacts of climate change increasingly hard to ignore, public pressure to address it is mounting. Three MIT graduates are among those helping to shape the debate on how best to go about it.

  
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  MIT libraries

  Facts and figures to sustain your inner geek
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  Building a better MIT

  Discrimination and power imbalances are rampant in academia and tech. But at MIT, we can do better.

  
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  Double Nobel

  Economists Duflo and Banerjee have pioneered a new approach to antipoverty research.

  
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  A bridge to the 16th century

  A novel design by Leonardo da Vinci was never built but would have worked.

  
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  Weird science

  Engineers have developed a model that can predict oobleck’s wacky behavior.

  

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