Via @mitprojectmanus on Instagram: “Metropolis Makerspace hosted a Pi Day Welding and Pie maker social today, where students and staff welded Pi digits onto a sculpture and ate homemade pie. We have welded more than 600 digits so far across multiple events.”

In winning national titles in weight throw and shot put, third-year chemistry major Alexis Boykins has become the first student-athlete in MIT track and field history to win multiple events at the same NCAA Championship meet.

Axios writes that MIT’s new Climate Policy Center, directed by Christopher Knittel, will aim to produce “policy-relevant research on shorter timescales, while also pursuing more typical, long-term peer-reviewed work.”

In class 2.679 (Electronics for Mechanical Systems II) students design, fabricate, and assemble a printed circuit board, and then incorporate it into a mechanical device that they create. “We imagine it, and we build it,” Tonio Buonassisi says.

For Allison Thompkins PhD ’11, economics and spirituality are complementary pursuits, shaped by an expansive understanding of disability. “From my perspective, the main connecting thread of economics and spirituality is their power to improve the world,” she says.

Fast Company reported on a finding that large language models can be used to predict the future as well as humans can. “Accurate forecasting of future events is very important to many aspects of human economic activity,” Peter Park said.