[ad_1] When Lynn Best joined ’69 utility company Seattle City Light in 1982, her team faced an urgent challenge: assessing the environmental, cultural, and financial impacts of three electricity-producing damsRead More
Category: Geeky Stuff
The art of bonsai according to an engineer
[ad_1] Julian Adams clearly remembers seeing a bonsai for the first time. Wandering through a botanical garden as a young man, he stumbled upon a room filled with tiny oldRead More
Educating teachers in the realities of urban education
[ad_1] When Jesse Solomon ’91 first started teaching at a middle school in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the 1990s, he was overwhelmed. “I had 25 students working at eight different gradeRead More
Energy for the earth, from the earth
[ad_1] Geothermal energy is a promising energy source, limited by factors such as the need for facilities to be located in areas where hot water reservoirs deep below the earth’sRead More
Improving access to healthy, fast food
[ad_1] MCP ’11’s Cassandria Campbell traces her interest in food to her first summer job where she worked with the Food Project on farms in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and the BostonRead More
Better democracy through technology | MIT Technology Review
[ad_1] When Mike Koval, the police chief of Madison, Wisconsin, abruptly resigned on a Sunday in September 2019, the community’s relationship with its men and women in blue was alreadyRead More
Raj Tahil ’81 and Mary Jo Wrenn
[ad_1] Raj Tahil trusts MIT to activate his entrepreneurial instincts. “I’ve learned to see problems as interesting opportunities,” says the president of Torpac Capsules, which specializes in specialty capsules andRead More
To serve as a “force multiplier for good”
[ad_1] “At MIT, we believe that public service can and should be as intense, meaningful, and intellectually rigorous as academic work. MIT graduates help convey the philosophy that serving othersRead More
a campus exhibition
[ad_1] “Leslie Thornton: Begin Again, Again”, at the MIT List Center until February 13, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States. It contains a fresh install ofRead More
Elizabeth Holmes Trial Nears Ending as Closing Arguments End
[ad_1] closing arguments Elizabeth Holmes’ fraud case It was expected to end on Friday, bringing the months-long saga closer to a verdict. Ms. Holmes, who founded blood testing startup Theranos,Read More