Advancing energy justice + dissolving medical devices + support for veterans

Metal stents or staples that disintegrate on demand inside the body could eliminate some surgical and endoscopic procedures.

Liam Gale, new program administrator for the Student Veteran Success Office, describes experiences of student veterans and how the Institute supports them.

Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.

“What, then, should we strive for? Not happiness or an ideal life, but to find sufficient meaning in the world that we are glad to be alive, and to cope with grace when life is hard,” writes Professor Kieran Setiya of the pursuit of happiness. “We won’t achieve perfection, but our lives may be good enough.”

MIT scientists developed “a machine-learning model that can capture how sounds in a room will propagate through space. By modeling the acoustics, the system can learn a room’s geometry from sound recordings, which can then be used to build a visual rendering of a room.”