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  Research in the time of covid

  In March, MIT shuttered nearly all its on-campus research operations. Here’s how the labs are reopening.

  
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  The long path to inclusivity

  Ten years after the Hammond report recommended ways to increase faculty diversity at MIT, little has changed.

  
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  A small-pond fish in the sea

  When I dove into the MIT ocean, I had no idea how crushingly large it would feel. But MIT can’t help students feel at home without understanding what they don’t know.

  
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  Engineering while Black

  Reckoning with Blackness as a first-generation immigrant at MIT.

  
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  A front-row seat to #BlackLivesMatter

  I'm an aspiring engineer with many passions. But to some people, simply being Black and female makes me inherently lazy, inferior, and undeserving.

  
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  Taking action for the common good

  Broad in scope, large in ambition: MIT’s Climate Grand Challenges

  
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  Face value

  A brain region believed to specialize in identifying faces plays that role even in people who were born blind.

  
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  Toward better blades

  MIT researchers have discovered how human hair can chip away a razor’s edge.

  
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  A mask mandate could have saved thousands

  How much do wearing masks and staying home reduce the spread of covid-19? A new study has some numbers.

  
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  Covid-19’s sunny side

  Lockdowns eliminated so much pollution that solar panels were able to produce more power.

  
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  Covid symptoms may hide in speech

  Signal processing reveals that patients speak differently before any other signs are detectable.

  

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