Ecogenesis + political messaging + supporting grad students

Understanding how party loyalists react to countervailing viewpoints could help bridge the political divide.

Set to retire this spring, Staton has made an indelible mark on graduate student living and learning over a quarter century at the Institute.

The visit featured a public seminar on African governance, as well as meetings with faculty, students, and staff.

Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi discusses her research studying the use of artificial intelligence in health care. “When you take state-of-the-art machine learning methods and systems and then evaluate them on different patient groups, they do not perform equally,” says Ghassemi.

MIT is participating in the Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) College Network, which “aims to build new pathways to college for students who might not otherwise recognize all their options.”