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  Letter from the Dean Dear Friends,The landmark detection of gravitational waves stands as a marvelous achievement for science. We are incredibly pro ...
• Research 100 Years of Gravitational Waves: Observation of a Binary Black Hole Collision Last year the world celebrated the centennial of Einstein’s formulation of General Relativity. It was a bold new concept of gravitation which replaced Newton’s gravi ...
• Donor Profile Dr. Tom Leighton, Dr. Bonnie Berger, and David Leighton provided major funding for the renovation of Building 2, home of the MIT Mathematics Department Ann Beha Architects, the firm hired to renovate Building 2, devised a plan to provide the mathematicians with the extra space they needed in addition to the renovation o ...
• Article Dean's Breakfast: Amy Keating, Protein Engineer On December 16, 2015, Amy Keating, Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, told the Dean’s Breakfast audience about her “true love”—proteins. Keating st ...
• Article In his own words BCS M.D./Ph.D. candidate Stephen Allsop studies social cognition in the Tye Laboratory What is social cognition?In a nutshell, social cognition is the idea that we rely on social cues from other animals, or other humans, to understand things about our enviro ...
• Article Non-Invasive Lung Cancer Detection Technology Is a Winner at MIT’S Accelerate Pitch Competition What if you could determine if there is a hazardous pollutant in the air, if an explosive material is present, or if a person’s breath indicates the presence of lung c ...
• Article MIT on Climate = Science + Action Days after news broke that NASA and NOAA declared 2015 the hottest year on record – a second record-breaking year in a row – leading MIT researchers gathered for “ ...
• Article On the Road with Pluto: Professor Richard P. Binzel brings Pluto to NOCA alumni and friends EAPS Visiting Committee member Fred Middleton ’71 V generously hosted a “Pluto Revealed” reception at the Stanford Park Hotel in Menlo Park, CA in late December, attended by around ...