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Jun 2

My 10th MIT Commencement is in the books! Always an intense but fulfilling few days... Proud to be a part of this community. #MIT2023

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The lab ⁦

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⁩ , who wrote “Carbon Queen” about Millie Dresselhaus (a proud ⁦

@CUNY

⁩ alum!). We really loved hearing about her life, thanks Maia! (I forgot my copy in the lab 🤣)

And that’s a wrap! Such a pleasure to teach 8.14 Experimental Physics,

@MITJLab

@MIT_Physics

. We had a broad range of final projects from radio telescope to cold atom trapping, P-symmetry violation & NMR QIP. The poster prize is a copy of

book, The Carbon Queen.

Millie Dresselhaus biographer Maia Weinstock

243rd ECS Meeting | Maia Weinstock, Author of “Carbon Queen"

to speak at

@ECSorg

243rd meeting Nanocarbons Reception

electrochem.org

The ECS Nanocarbons Division is extremely proud to have a special guest speaker at their upcoming Nanocarbons Reception, on Wednesday, May 31, from 1830-2030h ET in Back Bay Ballroom D of the...

“Join us in something important and new”

May 2

Banner day at the Institute yesterday, as we inaugurated our new president, Dr. Sally Kornbluth! Women leading at MIT is now the norm — and that is a huge deal.

news.mit.edu

Sally Kornbluth made a resounding call for the entire MIT community to join together and address “global crises” of the current era, including climate change, in her inaugural address as the Instit...

Eli Wolff, leading advocate for athletes with disabilities, dies at 45 - The Boston Globe

Apr 22

Thinking of my friend

@eliwolff10

, who would've celebrated his 46th birthday today. He was extraordinary in so many ways... Rest well, E. 🤍

bostonglobe.com

"I knew that I wanted to try to make a difference," Mr. Wolff said of his advocacy for opening sports more fully to those with disabilities.

The FerryHawks are proud to announce the return of Kelsie Whitmore! Last year, Kelsie made history right here on Staten Island as the first woman to play in a professional MLB affiliated league. Welcome back to #HawkCity Kelsie!

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Apr 17

Incredibly impressed by the thousands of runners who powered through today's rain-drenched #BostonMarathon. This is about halfway in Wellesley, MA

Hundreds of runners fill the street on a rainy day in downtown Wellesley, MA

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Apr 15

Thank you, Olivia! #EverTrue

Selfie of Maia Weinstock and Olivia Pichardo, both of whom wear Brown University gear

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Apr 15

Beautiful day for a ballgame! We are here to see

@_OliviaPichardo

and her

@BrownU_Baseball

teammates ⚾

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Virginia Norwood, ‘Mother’ of Satellite Imaging Systems, Dies at 96

Despite her degree from M.I.T., Virginia Norwood struggled to find a job in her field, and instead sold women’s blouses at a department store. She would persevere and ultimately invent the technology that allows us to map and study the earth from space.

nytimes.com

A pioneer in aerospace, she invented a technology that has enabled scientists to map and study the earth for more than 50 years.

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Just wanted to say thank you to librarians and how grateful I am that libraries in general exist. Truly wonderful people holding up a wonderful public service and we don’t acknowledge them enough

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A lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut led Jasmin Moghbeli to MIT, where she captained the women’s basketball and lacrosse teams. The next stop in her journey is space, as she serves as inspiration for her hometown, family, and young women achieving their dreams.

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The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics

In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years

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In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years

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SARS-CoV-2 infection weakens immune-cell response to vaccination

“Taken together, these findings suggest that SARS-CoV-2 infection damages the CD8+ T cell response, an effect akin to that observed in earlier studies showing long-term damage to the immune system after infection with viruses such as hepatitis C or HIV.”

nih.gov

NIH-funded study suggests need to boost CD8+ T cell response after infection.

MIT’s Barry Duncan demonstrates the power of writing in reverse

Mar 21

What's a palindrome poet? My friend and colleague Barry Duncan writes poems that can be read in two directions.

news.mit.edu

Barry Duncan, a staff member at the MIT Press Bookstore, boasts a unique talent: writing palindromes, or prose that reads the same forward and backward.

⏪ This time last year… Celebrating the life and work of trailblazing physicist and engineer, MIT Professor Emerita Mildred Dresselhaus, the Carbon Queen 🥽🥼💎 womanthology.co.uk/celebrating-th

#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #WomeninSTEM #STEM #WomeninScience

Brown University freshman Olivia Pichardo made NCAA history as the first woman to ever play in a Div. 1 baseball game.

@WhitJohnson

has more on her message to a new generation. trib.al/29FE1uC

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From the MLB Breakthrough Series to the USA Baseball Women's National Team to Brown University. Congratulations to Olivia Pichardo on becoming the first woman to play in a Division I college baseball game!

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Mar 10

Celebrating women with a talk by the inimitable Nancy Hopkins and her biographer

@kzernike

Nancy Hopkins speaks to an audience while seated at a desk in front of a blackboard. Kate Zernike, seated beside her, looks on

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Mar 7

Happy day! The paperback of CARBON QUEEN, my biography of materials scientist and engineer Millie Dresselhaus, is on sale now. 🎉 mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545976/

Three paperback copies of Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus by Maia Weinstock stand in a white counter with blue geometric tiles in the background

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MIT Press

Mar 5

Some interesting — and beautiful — science on my windshield yesterday following our wintery-mix storm.

@MattNBCBoston

A thin sheet of snow curls like a wave on top of a car windshield

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We are deeply saddened by the passing of Judy Heumann, known by many as a mentor, friend, and “the mother” of the disability rights movement. Judy was 75 years old. aapd.com/press-releases

Judy Heumann, a bespectacled white woman with brown, shoulder length hair, sits in her black power wheelchair. She wear a brilliant blue, short sleeve v-neck shirt and black pants. She is glowing and her smile is wide.

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Happy 1-year book birthday to #CarbonQueen! It's been quite a journey... Thanks for reading, and thank you to the

@mitpress

for inviting me to tell the story of the great MIT scientist Millie Dresselhaus.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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Feb 27

The MIT Black History Project illuminates 150+ years of the Black experience at MIT and beyond. “We’re trying to document the role and presence of Black students, faculty, and administrators ...” says Director Clarence Williams. mitsha.re/RWVI50N3FCf

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P.S. Brought a bunch of mini Millies to share with attendees and they were gone in 5 minutes 😉

Eight small plastic boxes holding custom Lego minifigures in the likeness of Mildred Dresselhaus, with red sweater and gray hair in braids. Packaging says "Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus"

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As President Obama once said, her influence is all around us. We miss you, Millie! #CarbonQueen

Many fascinating talks on new carbon science this afternoon, esp. from Shengxi Huang, one of Millie's last PhD students in

@MITEECS

. Her group at

@RiceECE

is using graphene to identify biomarkers of viruses like SARS-Cov-2 and diseases like Alzheimer's to improve early detection.

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Today at MIT, former colleagues and students gathered to remember Millie and Gene Dresselhaus; to pay tribute to their collaborator Riichiro Saito, who is retiring after a highly influential career focused on carbon nanotubes; and to discuss new works in carbon science.

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Six years today since we lost physicist and "Queen of Carbon" Millie Dresselhaus, but her spirit lives on 💫

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Absolutely essential

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Jan 28

My latest substack on the stubborn persistence of police violence. When White America Offloads Its Failures on Civil Rights Movements sherrilyn.substack.com/p/a-response-t

Carbon Queen: The Remarkable Life of Nanoscience Pioneer Mildred Dresselhaus|Paperback

Jan 25

Happy to announce the paperback version of CARBON QUEEN, on the life of influential materials scientist Millie Dresselhaus, publishes March 7 from

@mitpress

! Preorder from

@bnbuzz

thru Friday for 25% off with code PREORDER25

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The life of trailblazing physicist Mildred Dresselhaus, who expanded our understanding of the physical world.As a girl in New York City in the 1940s, Mildred “Millie” Dresselhaus was taught that...

Girls can't slide on gravel or swing in the dark, but they can call for better playing fields –...

Jan 25

“I think it’s because they’re boys,” McAuliffe says. “Boys get their way. It’s the old boys club.” This is not a good look,

@CambMA

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Cambridge girls’ softball league can’t file a Title IX complaint, but players have advocated for years for better fields. For the first time, city officials and recreation department staff are...

Well this makes me happy (FYI

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Jan 7

An exciting new carbon form - graphullerene! Happy to see Millie Dresselhaus listed prominently in citation No. 9 👵🏻👑

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Jan 4

So excited to see our work out there! Thank you everyone for this wonderful collaboration! nature.com/articles/s4158

A few-layer covalent network of fullerenes

So excited to see our work out there! Thank you everyone for this wonderful collaboration!

nature.com

Nature - A two-dimensional crystalline polymer of C60, termed graphullerene, is synthesized by chemical vapour transport, and mechanically exfoliated to produce molecularly thin flakes with clean...

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How Central Ohio Got People to Eat Their Leftovers

Jan 2

A challenge to you for 2023: waste less food and compost the rest. "Changing the behavior of millions of households may be a herculean task. But changing the behavior of one household can be done with just a single [child]."

nytimes.com

The average U.S. household wastes nearly a third of the food it buys. This community is nudging its residents to change their habits.

PT's annual "year in reviews" highlights recent books that would make great gifts for physics enthusiasts. Selections include books about quantum thermodynamics (by

@nicoleyh11

), Mildred Dresselhaus (by

) physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.

), and "square" physicists (by

@ccmmody

Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science

For the past 6+ months, we here at

@KSJatMIT

and

@undarkmag

have been working on a project that explores science's long, often-troubled relationship with race. Today, "Long Division: The Persistence of Race Science" finally sees the light of day.

race.undark.org

A NEW SERIES FROM UNDARK: Science and its practitioners helped to build up the modern notion of "race." Can that ever be torn down?

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