“Understanding the flow of information between the immune system and the nervous system can help us to understand why neurological conditions arise,” Gloria Choi says, “and will help us to devise therapies that no one has thought about before.”
With only a little information, researchers can map the conditions under which an ecosystem will be stable or unstable. “We can trace out a boundary that predicts the loss of stability and the onset of fluctuations of a population,” Jeff Gore says.
Ben Bernanke PhD ’79, an economist who applied his scholarly experience to his work as chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve during the economic and financial-sector crisis of 2008-09, has been awarded a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in economics.
Graduate students have created an on-campus assembly factory for fiber-extrusion devices. These devices will be used as a teaching tool at both MIT and Monterrey Tec, as well as in manufacturing professional education in Mexico.
Quartz reported that Nathan Wilmers and a colleague used multiple measures of earnings to trace income inequality in the U.S. since the 1980s and found that “income inequality peaked in 2012 and has held steady or perhaps even fallen since.”
Two winners of the 2022 Nobel Prize in chemistry have MIT roots: K. Barry Sharpless is a former member of the chemistry faculty, while Carolyn Bertozzi is the daughter of physics professor emeritus William Bertozzi and a Lemelson-MIT Prize winner.
Via @sloanstudentlife on Instagram: “This past weekend, 129 Sloanies across programs spent the weekend meeting new friends, hiking and enjoying nature, playing games and sharing meals while bonding with fellow sloanies in the scenic White Mountains of New Hampshire.”