MIT’s Science Policy Group Model Goes National
A few years ago, an MIT student group dedicated to the intersection between science and public policy spawned a national science funding advocacy network. Now, led by an MIT student, that network is...
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“That I’ll have my own eureka moment. That’s the dream,” says senior Julia Berk. The eureka moment is famously attributed to Greek scholar Archimedes. The story goes that one day he stepped into a bath...
View ArticleEye Tests via Smartphone
“Over 4 billion people across the globe require eyeglasses. Of these, more than half lack access to eye tests. Traditional diagnostic tools are cumbersome, expensive, and fail to leverage the power of...
View ArticleExtraterrestrial Life: A Discovery Within Reach?
Sara Seager is searching for life beyond our solar system, and she believes our generation has the ability to find it. “We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration,” she...
View ArticleHow MIT Ingenuity Plus Federal Support Has Shaped Our World
The fingerprints of MIT faculty and alumni are evident throughout a new report from the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation—a compelling catalog of transformational 20th-century...
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