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First gen HST

Reframing the first-generation academic experience

December 20, 2022

First-gen MIT graduate students, including an HST student, are claiming their identity, forming community, and holding space for one another.

Ellen Roche ventilator device

MIT engineers design a soft, implantable ventilator

December 20, 2022

The new design works with the diaphragm to improve breathing.

Accenture HST student

Meet the 2022-23 Accenture Fellows

December 20, 2022

This year's fellows, including an HST student, will work across research areas including telemonitoring, human-computer interactions, operations research, AI-mediated socialization, and chemical transformations.

Emery Brown standing on stage at an event in his honor

HST Fall Dinner honors Emery N. Brown

November 29, 2022

Returning for the first time in three years, HST Fall Dinner attendees honored Emery Brown’s almost 10 as co-director of HST, while also reveling in being able to again celebrate in person.

Nurse attends to a covid patient

Are Covid-19 “comas” signs of a protective hibernation state?

November 18, 2022

Scientists hypothesize that, as in a hibernating turtle, the brain under sedation and deprived of oxygen may assume a protective state.

An MIT study shows that keeping indoor humidity at a sweet spot may reduce the spread of Covid-19.

Keeping indoor humidity levels at a “sweet spot” may reduce spread of Covid-19

November 16, 2022

A new study links very dry and very humid indoor environments with worse Covid-19 outcomes.

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New research takes a fresh look at the potential for cancer immunotherapy

November 12, 2022

Researchers, including an IMES faculty member, argue that there is limited evidence of tumor mutational burden as a biomarker of response to immunotherapy. Immunotherapy is an effective cancer treatment, but only for less than half of all patients. This has led researchers to focus on ways to anticipate which patients…

Louis Braida was a respected member of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the Research Lab of…

Professor Emeritus Louis Braida, speech and hearing scientist and hearing aid innovator, dies at 79

November 4, 2022

Valued mentor was known for research in intensity perception, hearing-impairment characterization, and aids for the deaf.

Researchers from the Bhatia Lab engineered targeted nanoprobes to measure enzyme activity in highly specific locations…

Nanosensors target enzymes to monitor and study cancer

November 2, 2022

By analyzing enzyme activity at the organism, tissue, and cellular scales, new sensors could provide new tools to clinicians and cancer researchers.

Recent American Physical Society honorees include (top row, l-r) MIT professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald…

Seven with MIT ties receive awards from the American Physical Society

October 26, 2022

Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20; Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.

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