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| MIT WeeklyMarch 14, 2026 | 
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| Greetings, and happy Pi Day! Here's a roundup of the latest from the MIT community.
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| | | "I've loved space for as long as I can remember," says MIT mechanical engineering PhD student Palak Patel. She's working on advanced materials that could transform human spaceflight: "My research fundamentally tries to figure out how to keep astronauts safe in space." |
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| | Generative AI changes how employees spend their time |
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| Software developers with access to a generative AI tool do more coding and less project management, according to a new study. |
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| Understanding how "marine snow" acts as a carbon sink |
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| A study finds hitchhiking bacteria dissolve essential ballast in ubiquitous "snow" particles, which could counteract the ocean's ability to sequester carbon. |
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| MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference shows why data make a difference |
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| Over 2,500 — including coaches and players from Team USA, the NBA, WNBA, and more — attended MIT's industry-leading event. |
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| New MIT class uses anthropology to improve chatbots |
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| MIT students design AI chatbots to help young users become more social, and socially confident. |
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| Recreating the forms and sounds of historical musical instruments |
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| Through a collaboration between MIT and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, researchers are creating playable replicas. |
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| Seeds of something different |
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| Kate Brown's book, "Tiny Gardens Everywhere," examines the hidden history of urban farming, its extensive use, and the politics of growing food. |
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| | | | MIT engineers develop "mini livers" that can be injected into the body // Newsweek |
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| Researchers at MIT have developed "mini livers" that "can be injected into the body to help take over the functions of a failing liver." |
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| Poor coordination can cost couples an average $14,000 in retirement wealth // CNBC |
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| A study by Assistant Professor Taha Choukhmane finds that "by switching retirement contributions to the account with the higher match rate, 1 in 5 couples could increase their savings by an estimated $750 per year." |
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| MIT launches calculus tutoring program for underserved school districts // MassLive |
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| The MIT4America Calculus Project pairs trained MIT undergraduates and alumni with school districts across the U.S. to tutor high school students. |
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| Happy birthday to the telephone — oh, how you've grown in 150 years! // NPR |
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| Florencia Pierri, associate curator of science and technology at the MIT Museum, takes listeners back in time to the world's first telephone call, which took place 150 years ago this week. |
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| | | | At every hour of every day, MIT is powered by its people. Test your knowledge of clocks around the Institute with this clocks-on-campus quiz, brought to you by the MIT Alumni Association. How many do you know? 🕰️ |
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| | | Not far away, one can visit the Massachusetts Institute of Tasteology, which offers courses such as 18.01 (Single Variable Cake-ulus), 8.01 (Crustical Mechanics), 3.091 (Introduction to Solid-State Crumbistry), 6.1010 (Fun-dough-mentals of Programming), 18.200 (Principles of DisCrepe Mathematics), 21M.011 (Introduction to Western Meringue), and many more. One student recently visited, meeting many pi(e)s along the way. |
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| | | Every year, MIT releases undergraduate admissions decisions on Pi Day, March 14, in the spirit of the mathematical constant. Decisions for the Class of 2030 will be released on 3/14 at 1:59 p.m. EDT in the year '26, which follows the sequence of digits in pi. Located at the Charles River Esplanade in Boston across from the Institute, this plaque next to a park bench features the first 100-plus digits of pi. Can you spot today's date and decision release time? Happy Pi Day, everyone! |
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