Making life friendlier with personal robots
Sharifa Alghowinem, a research scientist at the Media Lab, explores personal robot technology that explains emotions in English and Arabic.
Molecule reduces inflammation in Alzheimer’s models
A potential new Alzheimer’s drug represses the harmful inflammatory response of the brain’s immune cells, reducing disease pathology, preserving neurons, and improving cognition in preclinical tests.
Q&A: Alexey Makarin on why social media harms youth mental health
MIT professor discusses the US surgeon general’s recent advisory and why scrolling social media can lead to depression and anxiety.
Understanding viral justice
Author and African American studies scholar Ruha Benjamin urges MIT Libraries staff to “re-imagine the default settings” of technology for a more just future.
From labs to the streets, experts work to defuse childhood threats to mental health
Symposium speakers describe numerous ways to promote prevention, resilience, healing, and wellness after early-life stresses.
Festival of Learning 2023 underscores importance of well-designed learning environments
Keynote speaker Bror Saxberg SM ’85, PhD ’89 encourages understanding learners and their contexts.
Subtle biases in AI can influence emergency decisions
But the harm from a discriminatory AI system can be minimized if the advice it delivers is properly framed, an MIT team has shown.
Meet the 2022-23 Accenture Fellows
This year's fellows will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research, AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.
MacGregor House gains a well-being graduate resident advisor
Advisor engages students, builds community, and promotes well-being and health.
3 Questions: Supporting student veterans at MIT
Liam Gale, new program administrator for the Student Veteran Success Office, describes experiences of student veterans and how the Institute supports them.
Q&A: Cultivating the mind-body connection
Professor Emma Teng teamed up with Lead Wellness Instructor Sarah Johnson to create an entirely new type of class at MIT.
Three distinct brain circuits in the thalamus contribute to Parkinson’s symptoms
Targeting these circuits could offer a new way to reverse motor dysfunction and depression in Parkinson’s patients.
The physics of gut and brain health
Chih-Wei Joshua Liu ’22 is an aspiring physician-physicist working to unlock the secrets of thermodynamics in biology and medicine.
A brain circuit in the thalamus helps us hold information in mind
This circuit, which weakens with age, could offer a target to help prevent age-related decline in spatial memory.
Pandemic mood: Much worse than a bad Monday
Study uses social media to measure how much sentiment has been affected by the Covid-19 crisis, worldwide.