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MIT professors bedazzle cameras to protest expanding surveillance network
Armed with a stepladder, sheets of adhesive rhinestones and googly eyes, a group of MIT professors made their way through campus Tuesday evening hunting for surveillance cameras. The eye-catching decorations do not block the cameras or interfere with their operation. That’s the point. The professors want people to notice the cameras watching them. Read more […]
MIT Future Fest opens Wednesday
MIT is opening its labs, theaters and a newly renovated warehouse to the public this week for MIT Future Fest, a five-day festival of science, technology, art and design. Read more Student crochet club donates handmade roses to Cambridge Health Alliance The festival begins Wednesday, Sept. 30, and runs through Sunday, Oct. 4. The festival’s […]
Cambridge nears completion of outdoor AED rollout across 46 public spaces
Cambridge has nearly finished installing 46 new automated external defibrillators, or AEDs, across parks and other public spaces. The devices, which analyze a person’s heart rhythm during sudden cardiac arrest and deliver an electric shock if needed, are part of an effort to make lifesaving treatment available before emergency crews can arrive. Read more Armyworms […]
Council votes for MIT graduate student union
Around 50 MIT graduate students marched from MIT’s campus to Cambridge City Council on Monday to speak in support of their demands for a fair contract from MIT. While the council cannot force MIT to act, it has in the past issued policy orders (including in 2020, 2021 and 2022) in support of the MIT […]
MIT doctoral student wins $10,000 award for algorithm implemented by WeChat
An MIT doctoral student won a $10,000 award in August for developing a new approach to recommendation algorithms that has already been adopted by Tencent WeChat, where it helps determine what content is shown to more than a billion users. Read more Keep an eye, and ear, out for migrating nighthawks Lei Huang, 30, a […]
MIT will reopen Building 18
MIT’s Emergency Management Department said it would reopen a building Monday Aug. 31 at 6 a.m., more than four days after closing it due to potential for poisoning by dimethyl mercury. Read more Simon’s says farewell, with hopes of reopening soon The Emergency Management Department issued a statement at 10:17 p.m. saying that “appropriate decontamination […]
MIT closes building after toxic incident
MIT evacuated a building Wednesday after a spill involving dimethyl mercury, an extremely potent neurotoxin. MIT’s Emergency Management department posted a message Saturday afternoon saying that a “single individual in a chemistry laboratory” went to a local emergency room and claimed to have synthesized dimethyl mercury. Read more Cambridge Day’s 2026 state election preview The […]
UnRulyArt helps autistic kids express themselves
Kids gathered in the Orange Gym at Martin Luther King School, where there were different stations set up to let them make art, from spray painting to chalk transfer to scribbling. Read more The CPL’s top 10 July reads At one, a small group of kids squirted paint from tubes onto canvases. Volunteers handed them […]
MIT Professor takes on Congress
MIT has asked a court to dismiss the first count of a lawsuit filed against it by Michel Anne-Frederic DeGraff, a linguistics professor at the university. DeGraff in March sued MIT, the U.S. House Committee on Education & Workforce and chair of the committee Rep. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) for violating his First Amendment and civil […]
Norton Award winner Ken Urban on bringing tough topics to the stage
Cambridge theater companies Central Square Theater and Moonbox Productions were recognized by the Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) at the 43rd Elliot Norton Awards June 1. Moonbox received the award for Outstanding Music Direction for “Crowns,” a musical celebrating the women of the traditional Black church, and Central Square Theater’s “The Moderate” received awards for […]