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Photo of a calculus class

Intensive Training for TAs

Preparing students to teach with confidence

Civil and environmental engineering professor Lydia Bourouiba, pictured with graduate student Yongji Wong, collects and analyzes data on the spread of infectious disease. Photo: Lillie Paquette

Leading with Data

In their own words: MIT faculty on advancing health in a data-rich era

Focusing on three Boston-area communities experiencing interventions and six control communities, MIT researchers (including grad students Rob Call and Leigh Carroll, pictured center and at right in Roxbury) partnered this summer with community members (including Shannon Simpson, left) to field surveys on topics from health to violence and displacement. Photo: Peter Gumaskas

Seven Ways Data Are Making a Difference

Anna Frebel studies stars residing of the Milky Way, visible here above Chile's Las Campanas Observatory. Photo: Yuri Beletsky

Points of Light

Astrophysicist Anna Frebel studies the oldest stars for clues about how the universe was formed

Spotlight

A Digital Boost

A computer simulation shows the collision of two black holes, a tremendously powerful event detected for the first time ever by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, or LIGO. LIGO detected gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, generated as the black holes merged. The simulation shows what the merger would look like if we could somehow get a closer look. The stars appear warped due to the strong gravity of the black holes. Image: Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes

The Chirp Heard Across the Universe

Understanding the Aging Brain

New research from Li-Huei Tsai’s lab suggests the immune system may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease.

The Science of Subtlety

Ibrahim Cissé examines the mysteries of interactions between biomolecules.