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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a world leader in research and education. Related accounts: @MITevents @MITstudents @MIT_alumni
Cambridge, MA
Joined July 2008
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    We hope you enjoyed the 21st day of the month, in this 21st week of the 21st year of the 21st century.
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    Fun fact: @TheSimpsons' Milhouse once predicted MIT Prof. Holmström would win a #NobelPrize. Today, he was right! mitsha.re/fXiQ3052y9u
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    This Hispanic Heritage Month, we spotlight Franklin Chang-Díaz ScD ’77, a retired NASA astronaut who flew an impressive seven space shuttle missions (a record he shares with Jerry Ross). mitsha.re/5jut50KUvFo
    Franklin Chang-Díaz's NASA picture. He is wearing an orange spacesuit and holding a helmet in his right arm.
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    "Meet Katie Bouman, who helped make the black hole image possible"
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    MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson share Nobel Prize in economics: Along with James Robinson, the professors are honored for work on the relationship between economic growth and political institutions. mitsha.re/1yu750TKF1s
    Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.
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    MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations: mitsha.re/80hK50AsTW4
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    To stay connected and positive during the start of quarantine, members of @syncopasian, MIT’s premier East Asian a cappella group, produced a Zoom-themed music video to the song “Boy With Luv” by BTS (feat. Halsey). Video: Stephanie Tran/@MITstudents
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    To stay connected and positive during quarantine, members of @Syncopasian, MIT’s premier East Asian a cappella group, produced a Zoom-themed music video to the song “Boy With Luv” by BTS (feat. Halsey). mitsha.re/TFwt50zRl4C Video: Stephanie Tran/@MITStudents
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    🎉 Huge congratulations to MIT’s Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson.
    BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”
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    47 yrs ago today, MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton's code landed humans on the moon. #Apollo11
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    A wearable ultrasound scanner, incorporated into a bra, could allow more regular monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer. “With more frequent screening, our goal is to increase the survival rate to up to 98 percent,” says Canan Dagdeviren. mitsha.re/rkzw50PoWUH
    Photo shows a woman wearing the breast cancer-detecting prototype device over black tank top on a green background. In her hands she shows the green circuit board.
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    Congratulations to MIT alumnus Victor Ambros '75, PhD '79 and former postdoc @gary_ruvkun for winning a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology! 🏅 @MIT_alumni
    Illustration of Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkin with the text "The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2024"