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Stanford Visit Ignites Interest Among High School Students
More than a dozen high school students walked toward the roar of cascading water at the Searsville Dam, excitedly pointing out a small delicate turkey tail mushroom, the blinking eyes of a bullfrog hiding under a leaf, and black beetles…
Stanford Celebrates as Two Scholars Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship
Kirstin Valdez Quade was awarded a fellowship for fiction.
Valdez Quade is an author and associate professor of English in the School of Humanities and Sciences, where she teaches fiction in the Creative Writing Program. Valdez Quade…
Enhanced Approach Emerges for Swiftly Preventing Toxic Responses in AI Chatbots
A user could ask ChatGPT to write a computer program or summarize an article, and the AI chatbot would likely be able to generate useful code or write a cogent synopsis. However, someone could also ask for instructions to build a…
MIT Dominates QS World University Rankings: No. 1 in 11 Subjects for 2024
QS World University Rankings has placed MIT in the No. 1 spot in 11 subject areas for 2024, the organization announced today.
The Institute received a No. 1 ranking in the following QS subject areas: Chemical Engineering; Civil…
MIT Researchers Draw Inspiration from ‘Tetris’ to Develop Advanced Radiation Detector
The spread of radioactive isotopes from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan in 2011 and the ongoing threat of a possible release of radiation from the Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex in the Ukrainian war zone have…
MIT-Mexico Program Facilitates Cross-Border Collaboration and Innovation
Favianna Colón Irizarry spent last summer at Tecnológico de Monterrey, working alongside Mexican biotechnology researchers to develop a biodegradable coating that prolongs the shelf life of local foods. Assisting in this and other…
Innovative Radiation Detection Method Utilizes Affordable Ceramics
The radiation detectors used today for applications like inspecting cargo ships for smuggled nuclear materials are expensive and cannot operate in harsh environments, among other disadvantages. Now, in work funded largely by the…
MIT Leads Among Single-Campus Universities in US Patents Granted
In an era defined by unprecedented challenges and opportunities, MIT remains at the forefront of pioneering research and innovation.
The Institute's relentless pursuit of knowledge has once again been recognized, with MIT securing 343…
Revolutionizing Drug Development: Mapping the Immune System for Enhanced Understanding
The human immune system is a network made up of trillions of cells that are constantly circulating throughout the body. The cellular network orchestrates interactions with every organ and tissue to carry out an impossibly long list…
Innovative AI Method Captures Uncertainty in Medical Images
In biomedicine, segmentation involves annotating pixels from an important structure in a medical image, like an organ or cell. Artificial intelligence models can help clinicians by highlighting pixels that may show signs of a…