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Dr. Mariana Matus, PhD ’18, CEO and Cofounder at Biobot Analytics, was the keynote speaker at the AMITA Ellen Swallow Richards Holiday and Birthday Celebration on December 4, 2022. Dr. Matus is a computational biologist passionate about leveraging big data and analytics to improve human health. Her topic on “Air, water and food” brought an exciting perspective on current opportunities and challenges in the field over a century after the initial studies of Ellen Swallow Richards on air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint. Dr. Matus' work following the steps of Ellen Swallow Richards is a testimony to the contribution of extraordinary MIT women towards progress of science.
Dr. Mariana Matus, PhD ’18, CEO and Cofounder at Biobot Analytics, was the keynote speaker at the AMITA Ellen Swallow Richards Holiday and Birthday Celebration on December 4, 2022. Dr. Matus is a computational biologist passionate about leveraging big data and analytics to improve human health. Her topic on “Air, water and food” brought an exciting perspective on current opportunities and challenges in the field over a century after the initial studies of Ellen Swallow Richards on air, water and food from a sanitary standpoint. Dr. Matus' work following the steps of Ellen Swallow Richards is a testimony to the contribution of extraordinary MIT women towards progress of science.
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Read more about the MIT alumni who are tournament tiddlywinks world champions: https://bit.ly/4fzZVNH
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Have you ever heard of a winker using a squidger to pot a wink? Do you understand the challenge presented by a nurdle and the risk of being squopped out? If so, you may be an aficionado of tiddlywinks, a tabletop game in which small colored disks (squidgers) are used to propel other, smaller disks (winks) into a cup.
Tournament tiddlywinks can be fiercely competitive—and MIT alumni have been at the highest ranks of the game for decades. Top player (aka winker) Larry Kahn ’75, SM ’76 holds 24 world championship titles in singles competition and 20 in pairs.
Kahn and his friends David Lockwood ’75 and Rick Tucker ’80 (both of whom have also won championship titles at various levels) all trace their passion for the game back to MIT, where they joined the then-thriving tiddlywinks club.
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Read more about how Patrick Teyssonneyre MBA 19 and his colleagues at Xinterra are using AI to innovate on materials R&D: https://bit.ly/4oRRdiC
What if reducing global warming were as straightforward as wearing a T-shirt and tossing it in the wash? According to Patrick Teyssonneyre MBA ’19, the cofounder and CEO of Xinterra, it can be.
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