The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize recognized journalists under fire, laureate Maria Ressa said in a talk at the Legatum Center for Development & Entrepreneurship. She spoke of building a new media company, changing business models, and weathering opposition.

Via @MIT on Twitter: “Congrats to @NASA’s #DartMission on a successful launch to asteroid Dimorphos this morning! Investigation Team Co-Lead Andy Rivkin ’91 @asrivkin, who began studying asteroids at @eapsMIT, is now ‘a leading voice in this field.’”

Migration out of Central America is largely driven by economics, at great financial expense to migrants themselves, a new study shows. “At the heart of what’s causing migration is that people don’t have enough money to provide for their basic needs,” says Sarah Williams.

Provost Martin Schmidt will become president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute next July. Schmidt, who earned his undergraduate degree at RPI in 1981, has been at MIT for more than 40 years as a graduate student, faculty member, and campus leader.

Via @mit_hobbyshop on Instagram: “Nadine, Alex, Chen and Gabriela are in full production mode making cookie molds. Their project for @mit_idm is called Bake the World, a series of cookie molds representing different cultures around the globe. Fantastic job so far!”

In an MIT visit, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston ’05 explored the shift to remote work and managing through Covid: “It’s surreal, there’s no playbook for running a global company in a pandemic over Zoom. For a lot of it we were just taking it as we go.”