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October 10, 2024
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Bubble Trouble
MIT engineers have found a way to manage the bubbles that form on electrodes during many industrial electrochemical processes, hampering the reactions. With new surface designs, electrodes and electrolyzers could become much more energy-efficient and use fewer precious metals.
Top Headlines
Insights for success in AI-driven organizations
A new report collects insights from MIT Sloan experts, including innovative ideas for using artificial intelligence to solve critical business problems and deliver on strategy.
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The MIT Energy and Climate Club mobilizes future leaders to address global climate issues
One of the largest MIT clubs sees itself as “the umbrella of all things related to energy and climate on campus.”
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Jane-Jane Chen: A model scientist who inspired the next generation
A research scientist and internationally recognized authority in the field of blood cell development reflects on 45 years at MIT.
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In the Media
Why even a PhD isn’t enough to erase the effects of class // Financial Times
Assistant Professor Anna Stansbury discusses her recent research on the class ceiling, which finds that an individual’s family circumstances can hold them back, even if they have earned a PhD. “We should care if people have opportunities to fulfill their talents for reasons of equity and justice. But the other is a very kind of banal economic reason, which is efficiency,” says Stansbury. “If you assume that talent for something is equally distributed, then we should care if people that are talented aren’t getting to fulfill that talent because it’s worse for overall productivity and overall outcomes.”
Watch This
In this installment of the “World at MIT” video series, MIT School of Architecture and Planning Dean Hashim Sarkis describes how the physical landscape of his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, and his experience with rug arts shaped an early interest in art and architecture. While studying architecture history, Sarkis remembers seeing photos of MIT’s modernist buildings before knowing anything else about the Institute. He believes that “the world is made by us and therefore can be transformed by us.”
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