Fundamental physics + music and social justice + equitable climate policy

Frederick Harris Jr., MIT senior lecturer and creator of the It Must Be Now! initiative, reflects on music’s historic role in addressing racial issues.

New modeling tool enables rapid design of effective and equitable policy combinations.

The device could help workers locate objects for fulfilling e-commerce orders or identify parts for assembling products.

Through her startup Bloomer Tech, Alicia Chong Rodriguez SM ’17, SM ’18 is “dedicated to transforming women’s underwear into a health care device” to help improve the gender health gap. “Our big goal is to generate digital biomarkers,” says Chong Rodriguez. “Digital biomarkers work more like a video, so it will definitely allow a more personalized care from the physician to their patient.”

MIT researchers constructed a mini city to safely test algorithms designed for autonomous vehicles. “The idea of the mini city is that we have lots of cars going at the same time and we can actually test out new algorithms in a safe environment,” explains graduate student Noam Buckman.