This Hispanic Heritage Month, we spotlight Franklin Chang-Díaz ScD ’77, a retired NASA astronaut who flew an impressive seven space shuttle missions (a record he shares with Jerry Ross).
To stay connected and positive during the start of quarantine, members of
@Syncopasian
, MIT’s premier East Asian a cappella group, produced a Zoom-themed music video to the song “Boy With Luv” by BTS (feat. Halsey).
Video: Stephanie Tran/
@MITstudents
To stay connected and positive during quarantine, members of
@Syncopasian
, MIT’s premier East Asian a cappella group, produced a Zoom-themed music video to the song “Boy With Luv” by BTS (feat. Halsey).
Video: Stephanie Tran/
@MITStudents
A wearable ultrasound scanner, incorporated into a bra, could allow more regular monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. “With more frequent screening, our goal is to increase the survival rate to up to 98 percent,” says Canan Dagdeviren.
MIT announces groundbreaking $1B commitment to the study of computing and AI; establishes the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing to serve as a hub focusing on world-changing breakthroughs and their ethical application
MIT’s Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have won the
@NobelPrize
in
#economics
, “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.” Congratulations! They share the prize with Michael Kremer of Harvard.
British physicist Sir Isaac Newton was born Christmas Day, 1642. This apple tree in the MIT President's Garden is a direct descendant of the actual tree believed to have inspired Newton's theory of gravity. Happy
#Newtonmas
to all!
Congratulations to Andrea Ghez '87 for winning a share of the 2020
@NobelPrize
in Physics "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the center of our galaxy"!
#WomenInSTEM
Professors Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, co-directors of MIT's
@JPAL
, receive congratulations on the big news this morning. They share in the
#NobelPrize
in economic sciences “for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty.”
Photo: Bryce Vickmark
Researchers have found that asymptomatic Covid-19 patients may have distinctive coughs. Indecipherable to the human ear, the differences can be picked up by artificial intelligence. Cellphone-recorded coughs could provide a convenient screening tool.
Happy birthday, MIT! The Massachusetts Institute of Technology was founded on April 10, 1861, the date it was granted its official charter by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Learn more about the founding of MIT:
Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT
Isaac Newton was born Christmas Day, 1642. The apple tree in MIT's President's Garden is a direct descendant of the actual tree believed to have inspired Newton's theory of gravity.
Image: Jenny Baek '25
MIT��s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind.
Video: MIT Biomimetic Robotics Laboratory
Two MIT students have been named Rhodes Scholars. Danielle Grey-Stewart (left) and Ghadah Alshalan will begin postgraduate studies at Oxford University next fall. Congratulations! 👏🏻
MIT-based team works on rapid deployment of open-source, low-cost ventilator: Clinical and design considerations will be published online; goal is to support rapid scale-up of device production to alleviate hospital shortages.
No. 2. MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris, and quickly recover its balance when suddenly yanked or shoved, all while essentially blind.
#TopMITtweets
Optogenetics!
Biomechatronics!
Osseointegration!
Magnetomicrometry!
Tony Stark went to MIT , and thanks to Hugh Herr and the K. Lisa Yang Center For Bionics, I'm witnessing the REAL WORLD TECHNOLOGY MIRACLES that will affect countless lives in previously unimaginable ways.
"We have seen what we thought was unseeable.” —Sheperd Doeleman PhD '95 on capturing the first direct images of a
#RealBlackHole
.
@MIT_alumni
Daniel Palumbo, Katie Bouman, Lindy Blackburn, and Bill Freeman also took part in the discovery.
Today is the first day of the autumnal equinox. The campus will soon gush with this palette of yellow, orange, and brown. 🍁🍂
#FirstDayofFall
Photo: Ayush Bhandari
New face mask prototype can detect Covid-19 infection: The sensor technology could also be used to create clothing that detects a variety of pathogens and other threats.
New algorithm keeps drones from colliding in midair: Researchers create a trajectory-planning system that enables drones working together in the same airspace to always choose a safe path forward.
MIT efforts support earthquake relief for communities in Turkey and Syria: Students, faculty, and staff have responded quickly in the wake of the disaster.
MIT Prof. Joshua Angrist and his wife Mira celebrate in their home in Massachusetts after receiving the big news from the Nobel Prize committee.
Photo: Lillie Paquette
British physicist Sir Isaac Newton was born Christmas Day, 1642. This apple tree in MIT's President's Garden is a direct descendant of the actual tree believed to have inspired Newton's theory of gravity. Happy
#Newtonmas
to all!
Image: Chelsea Turner/MIT
🎂 Happy Birthday, Margaret Hamilton! The MIT computer scientist is best known for leading the software engineering team at the MIT Instrumentation Lab (and later
@DraperLab
) during the Apollo project.
Diagnosing cancer with a barcode-inspired test: Dana Al-Sulaiman, a recent postdoc with MIT’s Ibn Khaldun Fellowship for Saudi Arabian Women, has developed a cheap, minimally invasive diagnostic test for cancer.
Happy 93rd birthday, Buzz! When Buzz Aldrin ScD ’63 enrolled at MIT in 1959, he aimed to earn a master’s but ended up completing a doctor of science degree in 1963. Aldrin would become the first NASA astronaut to have earned a doctorate and the second human to walk on the moon.
Happy
#WomeninScience
Day! At MIT, it started with Ellen Swallow Richards, seen here (back row, left) leading MIT Women’s Laboratory in 1888. Today 47% of MIT undergrads are women, many in the sciences. 👩🏻🔬 👩🏾🔬 👩🏼🔬
QS ranks MIT the world’s No. 1 university for 2021-22: Ranked at the top for the 10th straight year, the Institute also places first in 12 subject areas.
#QSWUR
@TopUnis
Engineers have designed a face mask that can diagnose the wearer with Covid-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with tiny, disposable sensors that could also be incorporated into clothing or adapted to detect other viruses.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023
#NobelPrize
in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”
This is Bunk. He can often be found entertaining visitors in the Chemistry Education Office and especially enjoys hanging out with
@mitstudents
.
#PetsofMIT
MIT has again been named the world’s top university by the QS World University Rankings, which were announced today. This is the 10th year in a row MIT has received this distinction.
For the first time, researchers at MIT, Caltech, Harvard University, and elsewhere sent quantum information across a quantum system in what could be understood as traversing a wormhole.
#DYK
Sangeeta Bhatia and Paula Hammond, both of whom have spent most of their careers at MIT, are now the only two women of color to belong to all three of the National Academies.
#WomenInSTEM
Congrats to
@MITEcon
Prof. Joshua Angrist (
@Metrics52
) on winning a share of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for “methodological contributions to the analysis of causal relationships”! 🥇