Senior Teresa Gao has been named one of the 12 winners of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship’s Class of 2024, and will study augmented and virtual reality at Trinity College Dublin. Gao is the fifth MIT student to be named a Mitchell Scholar.

Researchers at MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms have made progress toward flocks of assembler robots that could build almost anything — including buildings, vehicles, and even bigger robots.

Via @mitalumni on Instagram: “You may know how to make a turkey. But do you know how to make an MIT turkey?”

Via @mitfoodstuff on Instagram: “Happy Thanksgiving from Team New Vassar!”

Popular Science reported that Daron Acemoglu’s study on the impact of automation on the workforce over the past four decades found that “‘so-so automation’ exacerbates wage gaps between white and blue collar workers more than almost any other factor.”

Otto Cordero has always gravitated toward the most basic questions of life: How do ecosystems assemble? Why do species divide labor in nature? “The challenge is discovering something that applies across organisms and across environments,” he says.