AI’s climate impact + beefing up the GI tract + Giant Magellan Telescope

By rahmat hidayat

Sabtu, 04 Oktober 2025

view in browser MIT Weekly October 4, 2025 Greetings! Here's a roundup of the latest from the MIT community.   Want a daily dose of MIT in your inbox? Subscribe to the MIT Daily. AI’s Climate Impact        MIT researchers are seeking ways to mitigate AI’s ballooning carbon footprint, from boosting algorithms’ efficiency to rethinking data centers’ designs. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to innovate and make AI systems less carbon-intense,” says Jennifer Turliuk MBA ’25. Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines A cysteine-rich diet may promote regeneration of the intestinal lining A new study may offer a new way to help heal tissue damage from radiation or chemotherapy treatment. Full story via MIT News → MIT joins in constructing the Giant Magellan Telescope The major public-private partnership is expected to strengthen MIT research and US leadership in astronomy and engineering. Full story via MIT News → A simple formula could guide the design of faster-charging, longer-lasting batteries MIT researchers developed a model that explains lithium intercalation rates in lithium-ion batteries. Full story via MIT News → How federal research support has helped create life-changing medicines A new study finds over half the drugs approved this century cite government-funded research in their patents. Full story via MIT News → Secretary of Energy Chris Wright ’85 visits MIT Panel discussions focused on innovation in many forms of energy, then a tour of campus featured student research. Full story via MIT News → A beacon of light A lantern created in the Design Intelligence Lab creates sustainable alternatives for consumer electronics. Full story via MIT News → Who from MIT made Tech Review’s list of Innovators Under 35? This year’s list includes seven people with MIT connections: five alumni and two faculty members. Full story via Slice of MIT→ #ThisisMIT Follow @MITnews on Facebook → In the Media Best US college rankings revealed // Newsweek MIT has been named the No. 2 college in the country in U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking.  Full story via Newsweek→ Terra Oleo’s oil-producing microbes could replace palm oil plantations // TechCrunch Boon Uranukul PhD ’19 co-founded Terra Oleo, a startup working to “develop microbes that can transform agricultural waste into a variety of oils.”  Full story via TechCrunch→ Researchers decode how protein language models think, making AI more transparent // The Scientist In an effort to better understand how protein language models think and better judge their reliability, MIT researchers applied a tool called sparse autoencoders, which can be used to make large language models more interpretable. Full story via The Scientist→ Discovery of the week: Magnetic transistors // Forbes Researchers at MIT have developed magnetic transistors, which could enable faster and more energy-efficient semiconductors. Full story via Forbes→ Student Stories In honor of National Student Parent Month last month, the Office of Graduate Education spotlight four MIT graduate student parents, highlighting their academic work and parenting journeys. The stories feature Tamar Kadosh Zhitomirsky, a 5th-year PhD student in materials science and engineering; Ahad Khan, a 2nd-year student in the Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) program; Unmesh Gandhi, a first-year in the Executive MBA program; and Allison Somuk, a first-year MBA student. Learn more via OGE → Watch This In this installment of the “World at MIT” video series, Regina Barzilay, the School of Engineering Distinguished Professor for AI and Health, discusses her experiences growing up in Moldova and Israel. Initially aspiring to become a mathematics teacher, Barzilay describes how pivoting into computer science and a breast cancer diagnosis led her to work in machine learning for small molecules at MIT. Watch the video→ Did You Know? The MIT List Visual Arts Center first opened this week in 1985, in MIT’s Wiesner Building (Building E15). The List Center was designed by the late architect I.M. Pei ’40, and artists Scott Burton, Kenneth Noland, and Richard Fleischner collaborated with Pei to create a space dedicated to experimentation and interdisciplinarity — a defining spirit that continues today. Explore the milestones that shaped the List Center’s history → This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by the making of a one-of-a-kind dress. 🎯 Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Thanks for reading, and have a great week! —MIT News Forward This Email Subscribe This email was sent to rh3252705.pese@blogger.com because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. subscribe update preferences unsubscribe view in browser MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA

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