2023 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named
IDSS affiliate Lawrence 'Larry' Sass one of four faculty honored for exceptional undergraduate teaching.
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Engaging enterprises with the climate crisis
IDSS affiliate John Sterman brings workshops with management flight simulators to businesses working toward environmental sustainability.
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Deploying AI models at scale
Vivienne Zhang’s research on data quality when predicting wind power output, plus an internship in machine learning operations, leads her to join Nvidia’s Deep Learning team.
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Daniel Hastings named American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics president-elect
Head of MIT AeroAstro and IDSS core faculty will assume the presidency in 2024 as the organization’s first Black president.
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Investigating prison responses to Covid-19
Research by first-year undergraduate Maanas Sharma ’26 on Covid in prisons began at the MIT Policy Hackathon, which he first attended as a junior in high school.
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On social media platforms, more sharing means less caring about accuracy
An MIT-led study from authors including IDSS affiliate David Rand reveals a core tension between the impulse to share news and to think about whether it is true.
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Human behavior and digital privacy
Recent TPP graduate Kevin Paeth SM ’23, who researches human computer interaction, says his internship in AI policy reinforced a core TPP lesson: “the overwhelming importance of successful communication between technical and non-technical audiences.”
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Design of video game characters has physical-world repercussions
A recent study from MIT researchers, including IDSS core faculty D. Fox Harrell, demonstrates that the exaggerated design of characters in fighting video games reinforces cultural stereotypes about gender, race, and ethnicity.
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Improving health outcomes by targeting climate and air pollution simultaneously
A team including IDSS faculty member Noelle Selin has developed a new modeling approach that could enable decision-makers to reduce hazardous emissions and improve public health through combined climate and air-quality policies.
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Blowing in benefits
Tweaking US wind energy strategy could quadruple the positive impact on public health, a new study from IDSS core faculty Noelle Selin and SES alumnus Minghao Qiu finds
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