During its first in-person gathering since 2020, MIT’s Festival of Learning 2023 explored how the learning sciences can inform the Institute on how to best support students. Co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor (OVC), this annual event celebrates teaching and learning innovations with MIT instructors, students, and staff. Bror […]
Read More During its first in-person gathering since 2020, MIT’s Festival of Learning 2023 explored how the learning sciences can inform the Institute on how to best support students. Co-sponsored by MIT Open Learning and the Office of the Vice Chancellor (OVC), this annual event celebrates teaching and learning innovations with MIT instructors, students, and staff. Bror […]
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Parents receiving an autism diagnosis for their child can be overwhelmed with emotions and questions. What does the diagnosis mean? How should they support their child? Who should they tell? For the past six years, MIT undergraduate students have worked to help individuals and families navigate those challenges by collaborating with Boston Medical Center’s Autism […]
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MIT initiated a new event series on Wednesday intended to enhance discourse across a wide range of perspectives on campus, strengthen connections among Institute community members, and demonstrate practical ways of engaging with difficult issues. The event, titled, “Dialogues Across Difference: Building Community at MIT,” featured remarks by philosopher John Tomasi; a dialogue between Tomasi […]
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It seems the fairies have finally convinced winter to release the sun from its blue prison. The warmth has returned, and the misty blue tint to its light has been replaced by fire. Its warmth streams into my house now late into the afternoon, illuminating the dark corners and chasing away the shadows who have […]
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: In the first part of this story, William Dempsey, murderer of two Alaskans in 1919, escaped from prison in Washington in 1940, alarming the man who had convicted him. Part One also introduced Dempsey’s first victim, an Anchorage prostitute named Marie Lavor. Part Two introduces the second victim and the trial judge. The […]
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Eager to explore and celebrate individual physicality and shared humanity, Homer Council on the Arts in partnership with Kachemak Bay Family Planning Clinic invited artists to participate in “Unto Ourselves – Radical Autonomy,” an exhibit on display through March. “This exhibit came from the desire to express ourselves in the wake of the Supreme Court […]
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Rosemary is the bee’s knees. She’s all that and a bag of chips. She is the cat’s meow. She is the best thing since sliced bread. It might seem a little redundant but we want to be perfectly clear, Rosemary is awesome. She is super affectionate, loves people, gets along with some cats and dogs […]
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Words have always played a central role in Barry Duncan’s life. He’s worked in bookstores for more than 40 years, reads often, and has tried his hand at writing novels, children’s books, song lyrics, and plays. But it wasn’t until he stumbled onto the book “An Almanac of Words at Play” that Duncan realized words […]
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Homer High School students will ‘Seize the Day’ this month with their performance of the musical “Newsies.” The musical is set in 1899 New York during a strike of the city’s newsboys — who have to purchase the papers they sell. “ … All of a sudden publisher Joseph Pulitzer wants to make more money […]
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From creating metal jewelry to teaching metalsmithing in classrooms and community spaces to volunteering his time with groups and organizations around the state, Art Koeninger is dedicated to a life of creativity and compassion. Since 1966, Koeninger has been a self-taught, self-employed jeweler and metal artist, motivated by a sense of curiosity and playfulness. “As […]
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MIT’s new series “Dialogues Across Difference” will bring speakers to campus and create opportunities for community members to demonstrate practical ways to take on difficult subjects across differences of opinion, background, viewpoint, and life experience. A collaboration among the offices of the MIT president, provost, and chancellor, the program kicks off March 22 with John […]
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During the chilly last weekend of February, families around Cambridge, Massachusetts, enjoyed a fun-filled day in the Kendall/MIT Open Space. Winter Family Day included a range of family-friendly activities for attendees of all ages. With an estimated 1,500 attendees, the event was MIT Open Space Programming’s largest program to date. Collaborators across the Institute and […]
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We woke up early one Sunday morning and drove up the long road to Hatcher Pass for another adventure together — my first time on snowshoes. We had hiked up there many times in the summer and had done some cross-country skiing in the area too, but I had never hiked up a mountain in […]
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When MIT’s Office of Sustainability (MITOS) first launched in 2013, it was charged with integrating sustainability across all levels of campus by engaging the collective brainpower of students, staff, faculty, alumni, and partners. At the eighth annual Sustainability Connect, MITOS’s signature event, held nearly a decade later, the room was filled with MIT community members […]
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At first glance, aerospace engineering and brain and cognitive sciences may seem like an unlikely match for a double-major. But for Elissa Gibson ’22, the common thread connecting the two inherently different disciplines is clear: the human factor, by way of aviation. A lifelong love of airplanes helped Gibson discover the MIT Introduction to Technology, […]
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: The first two parts of this three-part story about John Fenger, Homer’s first resident physician, provided some early personal background about Dr. Fenger and described many of his early medical experiences in Alaska. Part Two ended with the doctor and his family leaving Homer in 1965. In early spring 1965, there were loose […]
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When stay-at-home mom Alyssa Morgan found herself spending a lot of time scrolling on her phone, she realized that she needed to put her hands to work and stimulate her brain with something other than taking care of her baby. What began as a hobby, playing with clay in her parents’ living room, has turned […]
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Homer community resident Derek Stonorov is an Alaska brown bear expert. He started to watch and study the animal as an undergraduate in 1966. “I was always interested in bears, even as a child,” he told the Homer News in an interview last month. In his recently published book, “Watch the Bear: A Half Century […]
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Homer Council on the Arts hosted a week of Norwegian traditional arts, featuring musician Rachel Nesvig on the Hardanger and flat fiddle, the national folk instrument of Norway, and Judy Patterson and Jerry Walsh, who will provide workshops in ‘Telegangar’, Scandinavian dance. The artists are visiting from Seattle. Kiki Abrahamson will also present an embroidery […]
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The Margaret Cheney Room celebrated its reopening last month after significant updates and remodeling over the last several months. The celebration was led by Lauryn McNair, assistant dean of LBGTQ+ Women and Gender Services, and attended by MIT Chancellor Melissa Nobles, Provost Cynthia Barnhart, and numerous students, staff, and alumni. In 1884, MIT founded the […]
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In a packed room in MIT’s Stata Center, hundreds of digital robots collide across a giant screen projected at the front of the room. A crowd of students in the audience gasps and cheers as the battle’s outcome hangs in the balance. In an upper corner of the screen, the people who have programmed the […]
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The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (MIT SHASS) is pleased to announce that 32 MIT undergraduate sophomores and juniors have been named as the 2023 Burchard Scholars. Elected by the Burchard Committee from a large pool of impressive applicants, all students chosen for the program have demonstrated excellence and engagement in the […]
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AUTHOR’S NOTE: Part One of this three-part story about John Fenger, Homer’s first resident physician, provided some early personal background about Fenger and a handful of his early medical experiences in Alaska. It was normal for Dr. John Fenger to receive phone calls when someone in Homer needed medical attention. This call wasn’t one of […]
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The daylight hours are getting longer and splashes of color will soon be upon us. In the meantime, stop by Homer’s art galleries and take in First Friday Opening Receptions and see new work by local artists, including paintings, mixed media, comics, pastels, and more. Art Shop Gallery 202 W. Pioneer Ave. Browse Alaskan art […]
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David Kauffman joined Homer’s Little Fireweed Academy last week for an Artist in the Schools residency. The weeklong program, held Feb. 20-24, was a blend of art and science, with students in kindergarten to second grade collecting natural objects from the beach for their art project. On the first day of the project, Feb. 20, […]
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Science Surfaces, a capsule collection of body coverings and accessories, serve as canvases for digital prints of ideas inspired by award-winning biomedical images produced by life science research labs at MIT. The exhibition, now on display in the Koch Institute Public Galleries, is the result of the inaugural Peers + Pros Project, a Boston Fashion […]
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When Victor Ransom ’42 arrived at MIT from New York City in 1941, he discovered a campus electrified by the war effort. People scurried between what he described as MIT’s “massive, unsympathetic buildings” as the campus underwent a transformation that took on new urgency after the attacks on Pearl Harbor that December. During his sophomore […]
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The MIT School of Science has announced seven postdocs and research scientists as recipients of the 2023 Infinite Expansion Award. Nominated by their peers and mentors, the awardees are recognized not only for their exceptional science, but for mentoring and advising junior colleagues, supporting educational programs, working with the MIT Postdoctoral Association, or contributing some […]
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When Dr. John Fenger glimpsed into the operatory in the old Homer Hospital Health Center one day in 1961, he witnessed an unusual tableau: Dr. Calvin Fair, a visiting dentist from Soldotna, stood over a patient, with blood evident on the dentist and on the patient’s bib and mouth. On the floor, unconscious, lay Dr. […]
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By Christina Whiting For Homer News Walk into Ann-Margret Wimmerstedt’s home and you step into her art studio. She paints in the living room, sews in the family room and sketches in the kitchen, moving items around as she is inspired. “I’m interested in a lot of things and I get a lot of creative […]
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