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Spotlight: Nov 28, 2023

The MIT Game Lab is a place for playfulness, experimentation, and critical thinking. “Students come to the Game Lab because it sounds like fun, which is great, but they realize through our research that there’s also something really serious at work in games,” T.L. Taylor says.

Nov 28, 2023

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ALUMNI IN ACTION

“I really love being in the classroom,” says Shannon Morey SM ’13, who was named the 2022 Massachusetts STEM Teacher of the Year. “Every day is an experiment: How will this lesson turn out?”
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RESEARCH NEWS

A new method leverages crowdsourced feedback, gathered from nonexpert users around the world, to help a robot learn to reach its goal. The approach “guides the agent to what it should explore, instead of telling it exactly what it should do,” says Marcel Torne ’23.
Professor Peter Szolovits, left, and Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi sit together at a small table with coffee mugs inside an MIT building.
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Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi is thankful to have crossed academic paths with her MIT mentor, Peter Szolovits. The feeling is mutual: “She’s definitely one of the best students I’ve had in my 49 years of teaching at MIT,” Szolovits says.
Liberty Ladd wears safety goggles while operating a large drill machine in a workshop.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT

​​For Liberty Ladd, a political science and mechanical engineering student and a member of Air Force ROTC, systematic change starts with personal actions. After her military service, she hopes to become a policymaker working on issues like voting rights and services for veterans.
First Lady Jill Biden, left, poses with Gitanjali Rao at the White House
MIT IN THE WORLD

Gitanjali Rao was honored at a White House “Girls Leading Change” celebration. The first-year MIT student and former Time “Kid of the Year” was honored for promoting science and innovation among youth and inspiring them with several inventions.
Woody Hoburg, left, wears a NASA jacket and holds a triangular flag that says "MIT AeroAstro Course XVI" and shows it to another person
#THISISMIT

Via @MITaeroastro on Facebook: “It was an honor and a thrill to welcome AeroAstro alum and NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg back to MIT! Thank you for sharing your incredible journey from MIT to the ISS and taking the time to answer questions from our community.”