3 Questions: Community policing in the Global South

International research co-led by Professor Fotini Christia finds an approach lauded in the US works differently in other regions.

Peter Dizikes | MIT News • mit
Dec. 4, 2024 ~6 min

From refugee to MIT graduate student

As a child, a civil war drove Mlen-Too Wesley out of Liberia. As an adult, he has returned and is applying what he learned in an MITx MicroMasters program to help the West African nation thrive.

Marisa Demers | MIT Open Learning • mit
Dec. 3, 2024 ~6 min


Do Mom and Dad really know what’s best? A psychologist explains why kids see their parents as bossier than they are

The brain science behind the power struggle between parents and their children.

Annie Pezalla, Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology, Macalester College • conversation
Dec. 2, 2024 ~5 min

Protein discovery could pave way for new Parkinson’s drug

The protein PNA5 could possibly prevent cognitive decline in people who have Parkinson's disease and related disorders, researchers report.

U. Arizona • futurity
Nov. 26, 2024 ~7 min

Gen Z heads home: How to navigate the evolving parent-child relationship as kids become adults

Parenting’s ultimate goal is raising healthy, happy, successful children. Figuring out how to keep parenting once the kids are adults is just another transition.

Amy Root, Professor of Applied Human Sciences, West Virginia University • conversation
Nov. 25, 2024 ~9 min

The Moana effect: how small island developing states are bringing their struggle against climate change to the world

The socio-political and legal push by small island developing states and youth activists at the UN climate summit reflects the motivation seen in the Moana films.

Susan Ann Samuel, PhD Candidate, School of Politics and International Studies, University of Leeds • conversation
Nov. 18, 2024 ~5 min

Q&A: A STEAM framework that prepares learners for evolving careers and technologies

MIT pK-12 at Open Learning co-created a secondary school learning architecture that’s available for adoption and adaptation by educational practitioners worldwide.

Katherine Ouellette | MIT Open Learning • mit
Nov. 4, 2024 ~7 min

Beyond bottled water and sandwiches: What FEMA is doing to get hurricane victims back into their homes

FEMA’s recovery work after Helene and Milton has been hampered by misinformation. Here’s what the agency actually does to help people displaced by disasters.

Walter Gillis Peacock, Professor of Landscape Architecture & Urban Planning, Texas A&M University • conversation
Oct. 29, 2024 ~10 min


How finance can be part of the solution to the world’s biodiversity crisis

Nature loss is as critical to national economies as climate change.

Nicola Ranger, Director and Senior Research Fellow, Global Finance Group, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford • conversation
Oct. 22, 2024 ~7 min

A new framework to efficiently screen drugs

Novel method to scale phenotypic drug screening drastically reduces the number of input samples, costs, and labor required to execute a screen.

Celina Zhao | Institute for Medical Engineering and Science • mit
Oct. 17, 2024 ~8 min

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