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Spotlight: Nov 29, 2023

A new method allows scientists to label and image many different molecules at once within a living cell. Measuring those signals and how cells respond to them could shed important light on how cells work — including what happens as they age or become diseased.

Nov 29, 2023

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Kristen Palmer portrait, and in background is a photo of her fencing. On left it says, "NCAA Woman of the Year; finalist; Kristen Palmer, MIT; Electrical engineering and computer science
AROUND CAMPUS

Fencer Kristen Palmer has been named an NCAA Woman of the Year finalist — the third MIT student-athlete to accomplish this feat, following Karenna Groff ’22 (soccer) and Margaret Guo ’16 (swimming and diving), both NCAA Woman of the Year winners.
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Via @mitprojectmanus on Instagram: “Over Thanksgiving, Project Manus student mentor Anika Huang ‘spent the entire break just doing arts and crafts.’ Check out the awesome felted oscilloscope and mask projects!”
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AROUND CAMPUS

The MIT Game Lab is a place for playfulness, experimentation, and critical thinking. “Students come to the Game Lab because it sounds like fun, which is great, but they realize through our research that there’s also something really serious at work in games,” T.L. Taylor says.
Shannon Morey smiles, with blurring classroom in background
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“I really love being in the classroom,” says Shannon Morey SM ’13, who was named the 2022 Massachusetts STEM Teacher of the Year. “Every day is an experiment: How will this lesson turn out?”
a human figure helping an AI agent fit pieces of a puzzle together.
RESEARCH NEWS

A new method leverages crowdsourced feedback, gathered from nonexpert users around the world, to help a robot learn to reach its goal. The approach “guides the agent to what it should explore, instead of telling it exactly what it should do,” says Marcel Torne ’23.
Professor Peter Szolovits, left, and Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi sit together at a small table with coffee mugs inside an MIT building.
AROUND CAMPUS

Assistant Professor Marzyeh Ghassemi is thankful to have crossed academic paths with her MIT mentor, Peter Szolovits. The feeling is mutual: “She’s definitely one of the best students I’ve had in my 49 years of teaching at MIT,” Szolovits says.