Q&A: John Harbison on his new album, “Diotima”
The MIT composer endows his orchestral works with “unexpected” musical elements, while evoking aspiration, hope, and loss.
3 Questions: Sophie Gibert on ethics in action
PhD student's research centers on ethics, including bioethics, and the philosophy of action.
Managing Covid-19 at MIT this fall: “So far, so good”
Ian Waitz, Cecilia Stuopis, and Suzanne Blake answer 3 questions on the fall semester and look ahead.
Q&A: Options for the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant
Researchers argue the plant could provide multiple benefits for California, including desalinated water and clean hydrogen fuel.
3 Questions: Maaya Prasad and Kathleen Esfahany on vision, perception, and the poetry of science
Students featured in public art exhibits in prominent locations throughout Boston.
3 Questions: Blending computing with other disciplines at MIT
The Common Ground for Computing Education is facilitating collaborations to develop new classes for students to pursue computational knowledge within the context of their fields of interest.
3 Questions: Investigating a long-standing neutrino mystery
Graduate student Nicholas Kamp describes the MicroBooNE experiment and its implications for our understanding of fundamental particles.
3 Questions: Administering elections in a hyper-partisan era
MIT professor of political science Charles Stewart III discusses the status of US election administration.
Q&A: Lucy mission launches to study ancient Trojan asteroids
Co-Investigator Scientist Professor Richard Binzel discusses NASA’s latest interplanetary mission, which is co-led by Cathy Olkin ’88, PhD ’96.
3 Questions: Understanding the Haiti earthquakes
Assistant professors Camilla Cattania and William Frank discuss the science behind the 2010 and 2021 earthquakes in Haiti.
3 Questions: Kalyan Veeramachaneni on hurdles preventing fully automated machine learning
Researchers hope more user-friendly machine-learning systems will enable nonexperts to analyze big data — but can such systems ever be completely autonomous?
3 Questions: Sheena Vasquez and Christian Loyo on communicating science through poetry
PhD students discuss their participation in The Poetry of Science project and the importance of bringing the arts into science communication.
3 Questions: Paula Hammond and Tim Jamison on graduate student advising and mentoring
Co-chairs of the Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Advising and Mentoring discuss the committee’s task of advising the Institute on policies and programs that support both students and faculty.
3 Questions: An anthropologist and a filmmaker on working-class lives in Chicago
A storytelling project by Christine Walley and Chris Boebel explores the social impacts of late 20th century deindustrialization.
3 Questions: Daniel Cohn on the benefits of high-efficiency, flexible-fuel engines for heavy-duty trucking
MIT researchers propose a gasoline-ethanol engine that is cleaner and more cost-effective than existing diesel engine technologies to help meet vehicle emission reduction goals.