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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 […]
State invests $25 million in future MIT “quantum toolbox”
Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey stood in a windowless room on the seventh floor of MIT’s Samberg Conference Center and promised the state’s $25 million investment in a Quantum Systems Laboratory (QSL) at MIT would be good for the state. Read more The once familiar bobolink now in decline “The [return on investment] is clear on […]
MIT grad students rally on commencement day, Harvard students picket
MIT graduate student workers rallied before the university’s commencement Thursday, while those at Harvard picketed outside Harvard Yard during graduation ceremonies. Read more Events this week in Camberville: Pride Patio Party, Celtic art, & Eve Plumb Over 100 people gathered outside MIT’s Lobby 7 at 77 Massachusetts Avenue to rally in support of graduate student […]
Lesley faculty ratify contract; Harvard, MIT unions feel stalled
As one local university resolved labor strife with its faculty members, two others face mounting pressure from graduate student employees. Read more School Committee probes screen usage data Lesley University saw core faculty members vote Wednesday to ratify a contract, resolving two years of negotiations that included a recent two-day strike. “It’s just amazing,” said […]