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May 28, 2025
Greetings! 2025 MIT Commencement ceremonies begin today. See the full schedule here.

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Helping America Make Again
Building on MIT’s deep legacy of expanding U.S. growth and jobs through industrial production, the Institute’s new Initiative for New Manufacturing aims to ignite job creation and reinfuse U.S. industrial production with leading-edge technologies. President Sally Kornbluth says: “Helping America build a future of new manufacturing is a perfect job for MIT.”
Top Headlines
Learning how to predict rare kinds of failures
Researchers are developing algorithms to predict failures when automation meets the real world in areas like air traffic scheduling or autonomous vehicles.
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Overlooked cells might explain the human brain’s huge storage capacity
MIT researchers developed a new model of memory that includes critical contributions from astrocytes, a class of brain cells.
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Living the theater dream at MIT
The Theater Arts program gives students space to stretch their creativity.
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In the Media
Image reveals the most distant galaxy ever seen, from just 280 million years after the Big Bang // Gizmodo
MIT astronomers uncovered the most distant galaxy ever detected, dubbed MoM-z14, using the James Webb Space Telescope. MoM-z14 “isn’t just some dim smudge — it’s unexpectedly luminous, echoing a growing theme in JWST’s discoveries. MoM-z14 now joins a strange new class of young galaxies that shine far more brightly than anyone expected.” 
Did You Know?
With the first MIT Commencement ceremonies of 2025 taking place today, we offer a look at the symbolism of the Institute’s regalia, mace, staff, seal, and more. Seen here, the design for the MIT doctoral degree robe was adopted in 1995 and modified in 2015.
This edition of the MIT Daily was brought to you by a heartfelt chat with (and poignant ode to) Hank Green, this year’s MIT Commencement speaker.🖖🏻

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