Author: Katharine Dunn
OA research in the news: The life of cheese
What makes a good cheese? It’s a complicated question, and one that cultural anthropologist Heather Paxson explores in her new book, The Life of...
OA research in the news: Sarma named “experimenter-in-chief”
Award winning teacher and mechanical engineering professor Sanjay Sarma has been named MIT’s first Director of Digital Learning. His job will be to assess...
OA research in the news: SHASS faculty win awards
Two MIT School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences faculty members have won awards for their work. Economist Anna Mikusheva received the 2012 Elaine...
OA research in the news: Ocean feeding strategies
Scientists have long believed that ocean-dwelling microorganisms need not move to gather food because turbulence distributes nutrients uniformly. Using a computer model that simulates...
OA research in the news: Wireless@MIT
The Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has launched the MIT Center for Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing (Wireless@MIT), whose goal is to bring...
OA research in the news: “Megafunding” drug development
It’s expensive and risky for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to develop drug treatments, and there are often few rewards for investors. In a Nature...
OA research in the news: Global warming and tropical rainfall
Scientists believe that global warming will lead to more intense rainfall around the world, but models have been at odds about the rate at...
OA research in the news: Predicting the best medical treatment
It can be tough for doctors to predict which treatment will best improve the health of patients with social anxiety disorder, whose sufferers intensely...
OA research in the news: Dincă named to TR35 list
Assistant chemistry professor Mircea Dincă has been named one of Technology Review magazine’s 35 Innovators Under 35. Dincă was cited in the September/October issue...