Before it was legal in California, Liz Phair never used to buy weed.
“I’d always preferred it to drinking, but I wanted to be able to stand up in a court courts terrify me and be like, ‘I did not buy illegal drugs,’” the veteran indie-rock star says. “So at a party I’d be the one standing outside the bathroom: ‘What are you guys doing in there?’”
Phair’s feelings changed along with the law in 2016. “All of a sudden I could just buy it whenever I wanted,” she says, which turned out to be quite a bit of the time. “My son had just gone off to college and I kind of went through a second puberty.”
Caption: The Future Founders Initiative aims to increase the fraction of MIT female faculty who found companies from less than 10 percent to 25 percent by 2024. Caption: Future Founders collaborators (clockwise from top left) Susan Hockfield, MIT president emerita; Harvey Lodish, professor of biology and biomedical engineering; and Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
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The gender disparity in biotech really got Sangeeta Bhatia’s attention while she was on sabbatical. Bhatia had taken a year to focus on her startup biotech company, Glympse Bio. The startup, inspired by bioengineering breakthroughs in Bhatia’s lab at MIT, advances biosensing technology and is now well-funded. But in 2018, Bhatia had to do what all startup founders have to do pitch ideas and court investors.
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Last fall, seniors in the MIT Department of Biological Engineering (BE) took on the most relevant of all possible design challenges the Covid-19 pandemic. The capstone design class in the Course 20 major, class 20.380 (Biological Engineering Design) has a different theme every semester, and in September there was little doubt about this fall’s topic Addressing the Pandemic with BE. “We weren t sure how students would respond. Would they be exhausted by Covid? Instead, students leapt at the chance to apply their skills to such an immediate problem,” says Professor Angela Koehler, a member of the teaching team.