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  The suddenly remote semester

  As covid-19 spread into the US, MIT made the seemingly unthinkable call to send students, faculty, and staff home. Here’s how that decision went down—and how the Institute retooled on the fly.
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  2.00b: Toy Product Design
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  8.13 and 8.14: Physics Junior Lab
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  6.070: Electronics Project Lab
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  12.307: Weather and Climate Lab
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  3.024: Electronic, Optical, and Magnetic Properties of Materials
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  2.007: Design and Manufacturing I
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  A letter to the Class of 2020

  Fifty years ago, our senior spring was also disrupted by world events. We are stronger for it—and you will be, too.
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  East Campus heads north

  Coronavirus forced us off campus. So we packed up and moved to a farmhouse in Maine.
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  A professor’s “new normal” is anything but

  Covid-19 has upended routines across MIT. For professor and cardiologist Elazer Edelman, head of the MIT Institute for Medical Engineering and Science (IMES), that’s meant there’s no such thing as a typical day.
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  Homework, in a pandemic

  A global health emergency has a way of changing your priorities.
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  MIT’s response to the covid-19 crisis
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  Planning for the unknowable future

  MIT weighs the options for fall.
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  Protection on the cheap

  An MIT team has designed disposable face shields that can be mass-produced quickly to keep medical workers safe from covid-19.
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  Don’t sneeze so close to me

  Fluid dynamics show that coughs and sneezes can send droplets flying far more than six feet.
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  Experimental molecules fight covid

  Researchers are testing lab-designed peptides and cytokine receptors.
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  What 1918 can teach us

  After the flu pandemic, cities that had imposed the most aggressive social distancing achieved the strongest economic recoveries.
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  Lessons from space

  Three MIT grads who spent months on the International Space Station share advice for social isolation.
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  Where the coronavirus strikes

  Researchers have identified the specific cell types most vulnerable to viral invasion.
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  Inside MIT’s low-cost ventilator project

  How a wide-ranging team turned a decade-old student design into a production prototype in just weeks.
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  Contact tracing without Big Brother

  Smartphone-based systems can alert people who’ve been near a disease carrier without revealing who it was.
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  MIT and covid-19

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