A life of curiosity + edgy atoms + saving for retirement

[view in browser]( MIT Weekly [MIT Logo] September 14, 2024 Greetings! Here’s a roundup of the latest from the MIT community.  Want a daily dose of MIT in your inbox? [Subscribe to the MIT Daily](. A Life of Curiosity #[Josef Eisinger sits next to his piano and bookshelves.]( After escaping the Nazis, Josef Eisinger PhD ’51 went on to an impressive scientific career — and a joyful life. “I was never just an artist, or just a scientist, or just a lumberjack,” he says. “I wanted to pursue all of them, to try everything.” [Full story via MIT Technology Review→]( Top Headlines Atoms on the edge Physicists capture images of ultracold atoms flowing freely, without friction, in an exotic “edge state.” [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( Wealthier workers benefit most from retirement savings “nudges” New research explores how nudging people toward saving more for retirement doesn’t work equally well for all savers. [Full story via MIT Sloan→]( [News thumbnail]( Startup’s displays engineer light to generate immersive experiences without the headsets “We are adding a new layer of control between the world of computers and what your eyes see,” says Barmak Heshmat, co-founder of Brelyon and a former MIT postdoc. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( How will we make things? MIT researchers are defining the next generation of manufacturing in three ways. [Full story via MIT Spectrum→]( [News thumbnail]( A brief guide to the greenhouse gases driving climate change There’s more to global warming than just carbon dioxide. [Full story via MIT Technology Review→]( [News thumbnail]( MIT graduate programs empower the next generation of naval leaders Through MIT’s 2N Program and the MIT-WHOI Joint Program, active duty naval officers gain the technical skills they need to lead projects in the U.S. Navy. [Full story via MIT News →]( [News thumbnail]( #ThisisMIT #[About 22 MIT students pose for portrait outside of Boston Public Market on sunny day. Text via @‌mitpkg: Our FPOP students got hands-on with sustainable interventions to food insecurity on campus while also exploring Boston’s vibrant food ecosystem! Between project work, they navigated the city and captured moments like these at Haymarket and Boston Public Market.⁠Swipe for more!⁠Image credit: Richard Oti]( [Follow @mitpkg on Instagram→]( In the Media Introducing the 2024 Grist 50 list // Grist Professor Asegun Henry has been named a 2024 Grist honoree for his work developing a “sun in a box,” a new cost-effective system for storing renewable energy. [Full story via Grist→]( How three MIT professors changed the way kids learn about tech // The Boston Globe Boston Globe columnist Scott Kirsner spotlights the work of Professor Mitchel Resnick developing the Scratch programming language and the Clubhouse Network, Professor Neil Gershenfeld creating the Fab Lab network of makerspaces, and the late Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers and his work with the FIRST robotics competitions, programs that “get kids excited about, and more proficient in, STEM.” [Full story via The Boston Globe →]( Seashell art is shedding its kitschy reputation // The New York Times Graduate student Krista Mileva-Frank is curating “Objects for a Heavenly Cave,” an art exhibition at the Marta gallery in Los Angeles highlighting the work of 13 artists and collectives considering “how the legacy of the Renaissance grotto might extend to their own work.” [Full story via The New York Times→]( Opinion: Lessons from Market Basket’s summer of 2014 shape the future of work // The Boston Globe Professor Thomas Kochan explores how workers, unions, CEOs, and politicians can all draw lessons from the Market Basket protests in 2014. [Full story via The Boston Globe →]( MIT in Oslo #[Eight individuals in formal dress stand in a line holding red folders on a stage before a screen that reads “The Kavli Prize”]( Three MIT professors accepted the prestigious Kavli Prize from King Harald V of Norway in Oslo on Sept. 3. The event was part of [Kavli Week]( a series akin to Nobel Week in which new Kavli Laureates in astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience take part in lectures, roundtable discussions, a banquet, and an award ceremony. Nearly 40% of this year’s Kavli Prize winners hail from MIT; they are astrophysicist Sara Seager (left), biological engineer and nanoscientist Robert Langer (third from left), and neuroscientist Nancy Kanwisher (third from right). [Learn more→]( Student Parents #[Diana Grass sits with two small children. All three wear MIT shirts]( This September, to mark National Student Parent Month, MIT’s Office of Graduate Education (OGE) is featuring one graduate student parent per week, highlighting their academic work and parenting journey at MIT. OGE highlights Diana Grass, a third-year PhD student from Colombia whose research bridges neuroscience, immunology, and engineering to investigate the communication between the nervous and immune systems. “To all the parents out there chasing dreams while nurturing little ones, keep going,” says Grass, a mom to two children. “You’re not just building your future; you’re inspiring theirs.” [Learn more via OGE →]( Look Back [Old-timey black and white photo shows several men on and around a large tree, balancing akimbo on a wagon-like vehicle with its roots exposed and about to be planted on the relatively empty MIT Killian Court. The MIT Dome is in the background.](#) MIT’s Killian Court took some time to develop into the verdant courtyard that it is today. This 89-year-old photo, recently shared in a Boston Globe newsletter, shows the 1935 installation of one of MIT’s hawthorn trees, a relative giant compared to the saplings studding the court at the time. This edition of the MIT Weekly was brought to you by [going from roommates to lifelong friends](. 🫂 Have feedback to share? Email mitdailyeditor@mit.edu. Thanks for reading, and have a great week! —MIT News [Forward This Email]( [Subscribe]( [MIT Logo] This email was sent to {EMAIL} because of your affiliation with MIT, or because you signed up for our newsletters. [subscribe]( [update preferences]( [unsubscribe]( [view in browser]( [Twitter]( [Facebook]( [Youtube]( [Instagram]( MIT News Office · 77 Massachusetts Avenue · Cambridge, MA 02139 · USA