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Danielle Wood
Biography Professor Danielle Wood serves as an Assistant Professor in the Program in Media Arts & Sciences and holds a joint appointment in the Department of Aeronautics & Astronautics at...
Member Labs
Laboratories Space Telecom Astronomy Radiation Lab (STAR Lab) STAR Lab achieves new scientific results from sensors on distributed space-based platforms, focusing on telecommunications (radio and optical), astronomy, and radiation/remote sensing...
Hunting For What We Lost
How the MIT Mystery Hunt Reminded Me Of How Bleak Pandemic Life Is It is a unique feeling to be having such a fantastic time that you make yourself hopelessly,...
To save on weight, a detour to the moon is the best route to Mars
For a piloted mission to Mars, fueling up on the moon could streamline cargo by 68 percent. Launching humans to Mars may not require a full tank of gas: A...
COVID-26.2
Running from your problems I’m a big fan of running, to the point where one of my labmates described me as being known among her friends as “a running and...
Big Changes in the Qualifying Exam Procedure
The many responses to AeroAstro’s new quals process, and how it might be linked to implicit gender bias Imagine standing in front of a panel of faculty members, some of...
My Year in the Wild
Why I Chose to Go into Industry Before Pursuing Grad School Once I realized I wanted to be a professor, grad school felt inevitable. It was a question of when...
Why I Vote and Why You Should Too
Your voice matters, so make it heard “Voting is our civic duty.” This sort of rationale can seem awfully abstract to a graduate student who has multiple class assignments due...
A stroke of luck?
Hospitalization during a pandemic Back in April, I wrote about how running has remained an important form of stress relief to me during the pandemic, despite the loss of the...
This isn't Canada, eh?
The times Americans thought I was crazy Born and raised in Canada, I wasn’t expecting a big societal change coming to MIT for grad school. In my mind, Canada and...