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For MIT-WHOI graduate student Faith Brooks, the sky’s the limit: She’s now researching ways of preventing and mitigating harmful algal blooms, and will report this fall to Naval Aviation Schools Command in Florida to begin flight training.
By studying the roundworm C. elegans, Steven Flavell explores how neural circuits yield behavior. “The C. elegans nervous system is mind-bogglingly simple,” he says. “You can really measure almost everything that the animal is doing and study it.”
Developing and deploying powerful generative AI models comes with significant environmental consequences. “It is not just the electricity you consume when you plug the computer in. There are much broader consequences that go out to a system level,” Elsa Olivetti says.
Three MIT students — Yutao Gong, Brandon Man, and Andrii Zahorodnii — have been awarded 2025 Schwarzman Scholarships and will join the program’s 10th cohort to pursue a master’s degree in global affairs at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
The startup NALA uses AI to directly match art buyers with artists. “There’s so much talent out there that has never had the opportunity to be seen outside of the artists’ local market,” Benjamin Gulak ’22 says. “We’re opening the art world to all artists.”
A study in Amsterdam shows giving people better data about their energy use, plus some coaching, can help them substantially reduce their consumption and costs. “The range of energy literacy was quite wide from one home to the next,” Joseph Llewellyn says.
Via @mit on Instagram: “Beautiful campus aerial photos from the first snowfall of 2025.”