Students

Kyle Plantz profiles MIT’s Underwater Hockey Club for USA Today. “It’s social, it’s an exercise, it’s competitive, it’s a great workout, it’s a three-dimensional sport,” says Underwater Hockey Club organizer Martin Jaspan.

Wired reporter Katie Collins writes about how MIT student Ben Harvatine designed a sensor to help detect potential concussions in athletes. The ‘Jolt’ device can be clipped to head-worn athletic equipment and vibrates to warn the athlete when a dangerous impact is detected.

Roberto Scalese of Boston.com reports on the rollercoaster built and designed by MIT students to celebrate the start of the academic year. 

Steve Annear of Boston Magazine writes about the rollercoaster constructed as part of the festivities that welcomed MIT students back to campus. “I’m so grateful to be here at MIT and surrounded by such amazing people who can pull off such awesome projects,” says MIT student Rachel Davis. “I’m happy that I can call this place my home.”

Sara Murray of The Wall Street Journal speaks with MIT Sloan student Erica Swallow about the gender gap in large venture capital firms. Swallow discusses her op-ed recounting her experience interning with a venture capital firm over the summer.

In this news video, The Boston Globe reports on the MIT Open Style Laboratory, where teams of design, engineering and occupational therapy students combine forces to design accessible fashion.  

Jeffrey R. Young writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education about the final report released by the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education. Speaking of the Task Force’s recommendation to make education more modular, co-chair Sanjay Sarma says, “we see modularity becoming a key part of on-campus experiences as well.”

“[A]s an educational researcher, I believe that MIT has captured, perhaps uniquely, both the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for colleges and universities,” writes Dan Butin for The Huffington Post about a new report released by the MIT Task Force on the Future of MIT Education.

Bloomberg News reporter Kelly Blessing writes about the final report produced by the Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education. “The Task Force encourages MIT to evaluate possibilities to achieve increases in undergraduate class size so that more students can experience the rich magic of an MIT residential education,” the Task Force wrote in their report. 

Boston Magazine reporter Steve Annear writes about a new robot, designed by MIT undergraduate Patrick McCabe, that can play the game Connect Four. “It’s kind of a magical thing with computer science and technology, being able to leverage that to actually make something smarter than you are,” said McCabe of the device, which can beat its creator.

“Three MIT students designed and built a 3D printer that extrudes 3D ice-cream treats in custom shapes,” reports Boston.com. The design was part of a class project on additive manufacturing.

“The main reason we feel an ice cream 3D printer is an important addition to current additive manufacturing technology is that it interests children,” said MIT students who designed a 3D ice cream printer, reports Samuel Gibbs for The Guardian.

Yasmeen Taleb reports for The Boston Globe on a crowd-funding effort by students from MIT and other institutions intending to send a time capsule to Mars by 2017. The project, which would use satellites to deliver photos, clips, and messages to the red planet, marks the first student-led interplanetary mission. 

In this compilation of WBUR videos, 11 neuroscientists from MIT, Harvard, and Boston University discuss their current research and the importance of their work. The videos feature five researchers from MIT: Ben Bartelle, Claire O’Connell, Anna Beyeler, Emily Mackevicius, and Neville Sanjana.

Seandor Szeles of PBS profiles Tom Scholz, an MIT alumnus and lead guitarist for the band Boston. Scholz first picked up guitar during his junior year at MIT.