Anticancer agent + wedge-shaped efficiency + undergrad research

By rahmat hidayat

Kamis, 04 Desember 2025

view in browser MIT Daily December 4, 2025 Greetings! Here’s the latest from the MIT community.   Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Anticancer Agent For the first time, chemists have synthesized a fungal compound that was discovered over 50 years ago and has drawn interest for its cancer-fighting abilities. Preliminary studies find derivatives of the compound, known as verticillin A, can kill some types of glioma cells.  Full story via MIT News → Top Headlines Leveraging tech for the public good in Tulsa Second-year student Jack Carson partners with PKG Center on STEM education for Native American tribal youth. Full story via MIT Spectrum→ MIT researchers demonstrate ship hull modifications to cut fuel use Wedge-shaped vortex generators reduce drag in ship hulls, which could advance decarbonization for the shipping industry. Full story via MIT News → Inaugural UROP mixer draws hundreds of students eager to gain research experience The Institute will commit up to $1 million in new funding to increase supply of UROPs. Full story via MIT News → #ThisisMIT Follow @mitvball on Instagram→ In the Media Students are flocking to new AI majors // The New York Times MIT’s new Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making major (AI+D) is aimed at teaching students to “develop AI systems and study how technologies like robots interact with humans and the environment.” Asu Ozdaglar, head of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the deputy dean of academics for the Schwarzman College of Computing, shares that: “Students who prefer to work with data to address problems find themselves more drawn to an AI major.” Full story via The New York Times→ Watch This In this installment of the “World at MIT” video series, Professor Sana Aiyar describes how growing up in a family of writers, and her early interest in reading, helped her see the world through literature and stories. Aiyar, whose parents worked in journalism and politics, often travelled around India with her family, which exposed her to the country’s diverse cultures and historical perspectives. Now a professor of history at MIT, Aiyar teaches South Asian history and appreciates “the focus on the global scale and the real world impact of the research” that happens at the Institute. Watch the video→ This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by developing an MIT card game. 🃏 Thanks for reading, and enjoy your day! —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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