Yoda Patta, NJ B ’03, was tired of reading about “reports of violence against women in other countries,” so she launched a series, End Violence Against Women, with the goal of developing ways to keep women safe.
Patta is a materials engineering doctoral student at MIT, and thanks to her series, other MIT researchers are incorporating their work into the series, such as clothing that could record an assault on a woman and record the data in a computer.
There are other projects and movements underway, related to the End Violence Against Women series.
Read the article for more
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According to the AP, there are 46 colleges and universities using federal stimulus funds to “advance technology that uses the temperature of the Earth, rather than coal-fired power plants, to heat and cool buildings” (geothermal power).
Using geothermal technology to save money at universities was first popular in the western United States, but is now making its way to the East coast as well. Read the article for examples of the development of today’s geothermal powered technology
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Recently, a mathematical model of using an “enormous cord to change the trajectory of a killer asteroid heading towards Earth” was presented by aerospace engineer Major David French.
The plan of attaching a large weight to the asteroid would presumably change the center of mass of the asteroid and help prevent a catastrophic scenario.
Not everyone is on board with this new plan, but most seem to agree on the realistic threat of another “extinction-level asteroid strike.” Read more from Wired.com on the discussion of protecting the Earth from asteroid strikes
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