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Seven with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2024

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Seven with MIT ties elected to National Academy of Medicine for 2024

The National Academy of Medicine recently announced the election of more than 90 members during its annual meeting, including MIT faculty members Matthew Vander Heiden and Fan Wang, along with five MIT alumni.

Election to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) is considered one of the highest honors in the fields of health and medicine and recognizes individuals who have demonstrated outstanding professional achievement and commitment to service.

Matthew Vander Heiden is the director of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT, a Lester Wolfe Professor of Molecular Biology, and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. His research explores how cancer cells reprogram their metabolism to fuel tumor growth and has provided key insights into metabolic pathways that support cancer progression, with implications for developing new therapeutic strategies. The National Academy of Medicine recognized Vander Heiden for his contributions to “the development of approved therapies for cancer and anemia” and his role as a “thought leader in understanding metabolic phenotypes and their relations to disease pathogenesis.”

Vander Heiden earned his MD and PhD from the University of Chicago and completed  his clinical training in internal medicine and medical oncology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. After postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, Vander Heiden joined the faculty of the MIT Department of Biology and the Koch Institute in 2010. He is also a practicing oncologist and instructor in medicine at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School. 

Fan Wang is a professor of brain and cognitive sciences, an investigator at the McGovern Institute, and director of the K. Lisa Yang and Hock E. Tan Center for Molecular Therapeutics at MIT.  Wang’s research focuses on the neural circuits governing the bidirectional interactions between the brain and body. She is specifically interested in the circuits that control the sensory and emotional aspects of pain and addiction, as well as the sensory and motor circuits that work together to execute behaviors such as eating, drinking, and moving. The National Academy of Medicine has recognized her body of work for “providing the foundational knowledge to develop new therapies to treat chronic pain and movement disorders.”

Before coming to MIT in 2021, Wang obtained her PhD from Columbia University and received her postdoctoral training at the University of California at San Francisco and Stanford University. She became a faculty member at Duke University in 2003 and was later appointed the Morris N. Broad Professor of Neurobiology. Wang is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and she continues to make important contributions to the neural mechanisms underlying general anesthesia, pain perception, and movement control. 

MIT alumni who were elected to the NAM for 2024 include:

Leemore Dafny PhD ’01 (Economics);

David Huang ’85 MS ’89  (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) PhD ’93 Medical Engineering and Medical Physics);

Nola M. Hylton ’79 (Chemical Engineering);

Mark R. Prausnitz PhD ’94 (Chemical Engineering); and

Konstantina M. Stankovic ’92 (Biology and Physics) PhD ’98 (Speech and Hearing Bioscience and Technology)

Established originally as the Institute of Medicine in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine addresses critical issues in health, science, medicine, and related policy and inspires positive actions across sectors.

“This class of new members represents the most exceptional researchers and leaders in health and medicine, who have made significant breakthroughs, led the response to major public health challenges, and advanced health equity,” said National Academy of Medicine President Victor J. Dzau. “Their expertise will be necessary to supporting NAM’s work to address the pressing health and scientific challenges we face today.” 

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The Bride, the Groom and the Greek Sunset: A Perfect Wedding Picture

SANTORINI, Greece — The bride wore a sparkling tiara and a flowing red wedding gown, her fifth matrimonial ensemble of the day. The groom wore a silver tuxedo and the fatigued look of a guy who had spent the last dozen hours posing for pictures.

The photographer gave instructions. Re-enact the proposal on bended knee. Twirl in the dress. Kiss the bride’s hand.

But it was nearly sunset, and the couple still hadn’t captured that perfect Santorini picture to display at their traditional wedding in China next month.

So their photographer, who is based in Shanghai, rushed the pair across the island’s whitewashed roofs and narrow cliffside footpaths, coaching them in Chinese at various scenic outlooks.

Above a luxury hotel renowned in China as the setting for a popular romantic comedy, he told the weary groom to lift his betrothed in an over-the-threshold pose. The third try was the charm.

For a grand finale, the couple stared into one another’s eyes on a rooftop, and the photographer framed their silhouettes around the blood-orange sun, sinking behind them into the shimmering Aegean Sea. It was the stuff pre-wedding-picture dreams were made of.

“Santorini is famous in China,” said the 29-year-old groom, Yao Kai, after the final click of the camera.

Unlike his parents, who he said had sat stoically for their wedding photos in China, the groom had the good fortune to have seen the world — and wanted his friends, family and wedding guests to see him seeing it.

“This is a great moment for our country’s economy,” he added. “We are getting stronger.”

Pre-wedding pictures have become a multi-billion-dollar business in the Instagram age — particularly for Asian couples.

Many Chinese brides and grooms who plan for traditional ceremonies back home go first for professional photographs under the Eiffel Tower in Paris, at Big Ben in London, and in the English countryside. (“A Downton Abbey effect on Chinese pre-wedding photo shoots,” the South China Morning Post reported.) New Zealand and Antarctica are the latest pre-wedding destination hot spots.

But the deep blues and white-out whites of Santorini exercise a particular hold on the romantic imagination of many an Asian nearlywed.

“A lot of people come,” said Xu Kaiyue, the photographer’s assistant. “Too many people.”

Santorini is fatally picturesque. Armadas of cruise ships and low-cost air carriers carry selfie and Instagram addicts to its clogged towns. Airbnbs have replaced residents. The island’s donkeys buckle under the burden of portly visitors. (“Fat tourists leave Greek island donkeys CRIPPLED,” read a headline in Britain’s Express newspaper.)

To profit off the Chinese market, Greek photographers have developed websites with galleries of stunning brides-to-be stretching languorously or leading white horses on the beach.

The island’s officials, like their counterparts across Greece, have pursued Chinese investment during the country’s economic crisis, and appreciate the lucrative surge in Chinese visitors.

Luke Bellonias, an island official, said the Chinese had extended the tourist season deep into autumn when most Europeans and Americans have gone home. “They just love to take photos,” he said. “They don’t love the sun that much.”

Still, he acknowledged, “This gets a bit out of control.”

Foreign photographers, complete with makeup crews, large stocks of wedding dresses and stylists, live for months on the island but dodge taxes, he said. The financial police rarely enforce the law, giving free rein, he said, to people “holding wedding dresses above their heads and two or three bags and running from place to place.”

For many couples, fees running into the tens of thousands of euros are a small price to pay for an image that they say encapsulates both true romance and social mobility.

“It’s as important, if not more important, than the ring,” said Olivia Martin-McGuire, the director of “China Love,” a documentary about the industry.

And for couples unable to afford the real thing, there are photo studios in Shanghai with Santorini sets.

“It’s very meaningful,” Ms. Martin-McGuire said.

Having pre-wedding pictures shot on Santorini itself seemed to mean the world to 26-year-old Tzuchi Lin, and his fiancée, Yingting Huang.

“It’s very exciting. Actually, we didn’t sleep last night,” Mr. Lin, who is known as Kenny, said in his hotel room early one recent morning. His 30-year-old fiancée, who uses the name Penny, applied hair spray in front of two wedding gowns draped from the window shutters.

“Now she can show off to her friends: ‘I went to Santorini to have my pre-wedding photos,’” he said.

The couple, from Taiwan, where some pre-wedding scholars say the industry began, slipped into something less comfortable. Mr. Lin wore a tuxedo with a maroon bow tie, and Ms. Huang an empire-waist white gown with lace bodice. She folded a second dress into a paper bag.

“We got them from Taobao,” Mr. Lin said. “China’s Amazon.”

They fueled up on eggs in the hotel, but the waiter insisted Mr. Lin drink a shot of ouzo.

“Now,” he said, “you can get married.”

In the parking lot, they met their photographers, Toto Kuo, a Taiwan native, and her husband of three months, Georgios Galanopoulos. They met “the old-fashioned” way, Ms. Kuo said — “couch surfing.”

The two photographers — who refused to have any pictures taken at their own wedding — led their clients to Oia, the town on the photo-bombarded tip of the island, where they set up shop in Mr. Galanopoulos’s family art gallery. They decided the bride-to-be should start posing in what Mr. Lin called the “more elegant” dress, as opposed to the “sexier” one in the bag.

They fought the crowds elbowing toward a particularly sought-after blue dome backdrop, but a Houston couple posing for professional anniversary pictures had already claimed the perch. Mr. Galanopoulos, 50, said the island’s Greek photographers had begun discussing whether there should be a five-minute-per-iconic-backdrop policy.

At a crowded lookout point, Mr. Galanopoulos instructed the couple to keep their lips puckered in a suspended near kiss.

“There’s a wedding, a bride and a groom!” an American shouted as Mr. Lin accidentally pecked his betrothed’s open eye. “Novio!” shouted someone in Spanish.

The sun started taking its toll. Ms. Huang sprayed sunscreen on her shoulders and pointed an electric fan at her throat. Her fiancé handed out water bottles.

They took a breather in the gallery, where Mr. Galanopoulos kept six wedding dresses on hand. Ms. Huang emerged from the basement in a red one with a 20-foot train.

At the church down the street, the caretaker shooed them away because the priest didn’t approve of the picture-taking. They moved to another rooftop, but Ms. Huang’s train nearly dragged over some dried dog droppings. Mr. Galanopoulos scraped them off with a pail and started shooting as his wife, holding the end of Ms. Huang’s train, struggled to create a billowing effect.

With time running out, things started looking up. Ms. Kuo noticed an auspicious sweat stain marking her husband’s T-shirt. (“Babe,” she said, “You have a heart.”) The priest had left, and the church caretaker sneaked them inside the courtyard, where the posing couple received shouts of congratulations and blessings for marital bliss from tourists on the packed footpath alongside the church.

After a wardrobe change into the “sexy” dress, the couple got their blue dome backdrop and nailed a rooftop proposal shot.

“Will you marry me?” Mr. Lin said in English.

“Say yes,” coached Ms. Kuo.

“Yes,” the bride said.

A crowd gathered below applauded warmly.

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IGF Awards’ 2018 nominees level to this yr’s video games to observe

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IGF Awards’ 2018 nominees level to this yr’s video games to observe

The nominees for the 20th Annual Impartial Sport Competition are out, and the record accommodates a captivating mixture of a few of 2017’s greatest indies — and what might be 2018’s future hits.

For those who’re curious as to how that’s attainable, that is how eligibility for the IGF Awards works:

State of Growth: All Entered Video games should both be at present launched, or be considerably feature-complete. You should have intent, on the time of submission, to launch the sport inside 12 months of the IGF Ceremony, in case your sport is just not already launched or publicly playable.

That’s why we’re seeing each a few of our favourite video games of 2017 up for the Seamus McNally Grand Prize (and in its honorable mentions) alongside indie video games many people could not have heard of. The whole record is beneath.

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

Night time within the Woods (Infinite Fall)

West of Loathing (Uneven Publications)

Into the Breach (Subset Video games)

Warmth Signature (Suspicious Developments)

Baba is You (Hempuli)

Honorable Mentions: Tacoma (Fullbright); Rain World (VIDEOCULT); Dream Daddy: A Dad Relationship Simulator (Sport Grumps); Cosmic Prime Secret (klassefilm); Hole Knight (Workforce Cherry); Cuphead (StudioMDHR); All the things Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)

Nearly all of these launched final yr, with some even attaining mainstream acclaim. (We had been massive followers of Getting Over It, Night time within the Woods and Cuphead, specifically.) However the shock look of Baba is You within the high six ought to instantly add it to your record of anticipated video games of 2018. The PC sport is an esoteric puzzle sport that resembles an outdated MS-DOS title from the 1980s; it’s due in summer season 2018.

Fascinating inclusions are Nuovo Award nominee 10 Mississippi, which makes use of stop-motion animation to let gamers study extra about its younger feminine lead; first deliberate for a fall 2017 launch, 10 Mississippi remains to be unreleased. There’s additionally Youngsters, which is described as an “experimental undertaking” that appears extraordinarily claustrophobic — gamers are misplaced in a big crowd.

Different video games of word are Celeste, the devilishly troublesome follow-up to fan favourite TowerFall; and The Gardens Under, which we final noticed throughout Sony’s Paris Video games Week in October. Its look on the record is a pleasant reminder of how a lot this Q3 2018 puzzle sport excited us after we noticed its newest teaser.

The remainder of the record is populated with some nice titles you will have missed out on final yr as effectively. Test it out beneath to seek out new additions to your gaming backlog. The winners will probably be introduced on March 21 throughout this yr’s Sport Builders Convention.

Night time within the Woods (Infinite Fall)

Cuphead (StudioMDHR)

Echo (ULTRA ULTRA)

Luna (Funomena)

The Gardens Between (The Voxel Brokers)

Chuchel (Amanita Design)

Honorable Mentions: Jettomero: Hero of the Universe (Ghost Time Video games); Useless Cells (Movement Twin); AER – Reminiscences of Previous (Forgotten Key); Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Video games); Rain World (VIDEOCULT); Form of the World(Hole Tree Video games); Hole Knight (Workforce Cherry)

Tormentor X Punisher (e-studio)

Cuphead (StudioMDHR)

Vignettes (Skeleton Enterprise)

Rain World (VIDEOCULT)

Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Video games)

Celeste (Matt Makes Video games)

Honorable Mentions: Tumbleseed (Benedict Fritz, Greg Wohlwend, Joel Corelitz, David Laskey and Jenna Blazevich); Hole Knight (Workforce Cherry); Tacoma (Fullbright); Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Video games); Million Onion Lodge (Onion Video games); Night time within the Woods (Infinite Fall)

Into the Breach (Subset Video games)

Shenzhen I/O (Zachtronics)

Wilmot’s Warehouse (Richard Hogg, Ricky Haggett, Eli Rainsberry)

Baba Is You (Hempuli)

Uurnog Uurnlimited (Nifflas Video games)

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

Honorable Mentions: Warmth Signature (Suspicious Developments); Useless Cells (Movement Twin); Factorio (Wube Software program); Area Pirate Coach (I-Illusions); Battle Chef Brigade (Trinket Studios)

Tacoma (Fullbright)

Attentat 1942 (Charles College and Czech Academy of Sciences)

The place the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Video games)

Night time within the Woods (Infinite Fall)

Butterfly Soup (Brianna Lei)

Tooth and Tail (Pocketwatch Video games)

Honorable Mentions: A Mortician’s Story (Laundry Bear Video games); Misplaced Reminiscences Dot Internet (Star Maid Video games); Dream Daddy: A Dad Relationship Simulator (Sport Grumps); Bury me, my Love (The Pixel Hunt, Figs and ARTE France); Cosmic Prime Secret (klassefilm); West of Loathing (Uneven Publications); Rakuen (Laura Shigihara)

Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy (Bennett Foddy)

Tarotica Voo Doo (TPM.CO SOFT WORKS)

10 Mississippi (Karina Popp)

A Mortician’s Story (Laundry Bear Video games)

Cosmic Prime Secret (klassefilm)

All the things Is Going to Be OK (Nathalie Lawhead)

Baba Is You (Hempuli)

Youngsters (Playables)

Honorable Mentions: The place the Water Tastes Like Wine (Dim Bulb Video games); IO Interloper (DANG!); The Norwood Suite (Cosmo D Studios); Low-cost Golf (Pixeljam); Witchball (S.L.Clark); Million Onion Lodge (Onion Video games)

IO Interloper (DANG!)

Do not Make Love (Maggese)

Penny Blue Finds a Clue (DigiPen Workforce Cactus Curse)

We Have been Right here (Whole Mayhem Video games)

Baba Is You (Hempuli)

Guardian of the Gears (DigiPen Workforce Studio 76)

Honorable Mentions: Crewsaders (Titan Squad); A.L.F.R.E.D. (Hugo Lefevre, Joseph Reichenbach, Romain Jaohar-Gaillard, Garance Royere Lebigre, Nicolas Tham, Marion Speiser, Delphine Migeot de Baran, Tune Huang); MOLOCH(Seemingly Pointless); Kyklo’s Code (Dice Manufacturing unit); Membrane (Excellent Hat / Seth S. Scott); That Blooming Feeling(The Tots Workforce); Inform Me What You See (Pesky Bees)