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Ibuki Iwasaki came to MIT without a clear idea of what she wanted to major in, but that changed during the spring of her first year, when she left her comfort zone and enrolled in 4.02A (Introduction to Design). For the final project, her group had t

“Design most definitely involves aspects of both humanities and STEM,” says MIT senior Ibuki Iwasaki. The art and design and computation and cognition major seeks to develop technology that prioritizes how human users think.

Two MIT doctoral students in the MIT School of Architecture and Planning have received the prestigious Fulbright-Hays Scholarship for Doctoral Dissertation Research Award. Courtney Lesoon and Elizabeth “Lizzie” Yarina are the first awardees from MIT in more than a decade. The fellowship...

MIT students Courtney Lesoon and Elizabeth Yarina have won Fulbright-Hays scholarships — the first from MIT in more than 10 years. The School of Architecture and Planning SA+P doctoral students will have their travel funded for dissertation research.

At MIT, it’s not uncommon to see groups navigating campus with smartphones and measuring devices in hand, using the Institute as a test bed for research.

Professor Helweg-Larsen Prof. Helweg-Larsen is the Director of the Social Identity and Risk Lab and the Glenn E. & Mary Line Todd Chair in the Social Sciences at Dickinson College. She uses social psychological methods to examine why smart people do dumb things. She has examined the causes, consequences, and correlates of optimistic bias (thinking you are less at risk than others) as well as other health-related behaviors and cognitions. In two NIH-funded grants she has examined cross-culturall...

What Is Universal Market Access (UMA)? Mar 13 2021 · 18:05 UTC by José Oramas · 6 min read Photo: Shutterstock You have successfully joined our subscriber list. The guide deals with Universal Market Access (UMA) protocol – an open-source infrastructure that allows DeFi developers to create their synthetic tokens and derivatives in the Ethereum network that can keep track of any asset’s prices. The decentralized finance (DeFi) boom has resulted in the value of the frozen assets frozen ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Sustainability DataPool, powered by the Office of Sustainability (MITOS), gives the MIT community the opportunity to understand data on important sustainability metrics like energy, water use, emissions, and recycling rates. While most visualizations share data from past events, the newest dashboard – the MIT Climate Resiliency Dashboard (MIT certificate required to view) – looks to potential future events in the form of flooding on campus. The dash...

Ten years after 3.11, Richard Samuels answers three questions about the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011.