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Summer 2025 recommended reading from MIT

Chapter by Danielle R. Wood in summer 2025 reading from MIT
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2025 Graduates of Team Space Enabled

The Space Enabled research group celebrates the graduation of several students who completed their degrees between 2024-2025.  Congrat…
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Deploying a practical solution to space debris

Researchers share the design and implementation of an incentive-based Space Sustainability Rating.
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Zero Robotics Registration Open for 2025 Middle School Competition

Zero Robotics Invites Teams to Register for the 2025 Middle School Coding Competition with the NASA Astrobee Robots on the International Sp…
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Heat exposure, cloudy water, and bad air: The data gap of toxic prisons

A growing body of academic work has established that prisons expose incarcerated people to a long list of severe environmental hazards.
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Danielle Wood Co-Hosts IAA UT Austin Space Traffic Management Conference

Prof. Danielle Wood is co-hosting this year's IAA UT Austin STM Conference along with Prof. Moriba Jah, affiliate of Space Enabled.
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Support for MIT Media Lab community members affected by the January 2025 wildfires in Southern California

Several members of the extended Media Lab community have been affected by the devastating wildfires in Southern California.
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Agents of Change Podcast Hosts Dr. Ufuoma Ovienmhada

Dr. Ufuoma Ovienmhada discusses environmental injustice at prisons across the U.S.
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Zero Robotics invites High School Teams for 2025 Competition

Zero Robotics Invites Teams to Apply for the 2025 High School Coding Competition with the NASA Astrobee Robots on the International Space S…
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Space Enabled at AGU in Washington, D.C.

AGU’s annual meeting is the largest gathering of Earth and space scientists.
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Alvin Harvey gives keynote at "2024 Advancing IDEA in Planetary Science Conference"

Dr. Alvin Harvey spoke on "Introduction to Indigenous Astrophilosophy" at the Lunar and Planetary Institute's 2024 conference.
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Katlyn Turner Speaks at University of Michigan International Symposium on Sociotechnical Research on Nuclear Technology

Dr. Katlyn Turner spoke at University of Michigan's "Phoenix Project: From Kikuchi to Fastest Path," hosted by NERS at UMichigan.
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Team Space Enabled at IAC 2024 in Milano

Team Space Enabled presents results at the IAC showing progress in Earth Observation and Microgravity Projects
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Cambridge Science Festival: Innovation Under the Stars Gallery

A selection of Images from Cambridge Science Festival 2024 | MIT Media Lab Presents: Innovation Under the Stars.
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Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize 2024: Media Lab honorable mentions

Media Labbers Dünya Baradari, Alvin Harvey, and Cassandra Lee each received honorable mentions.
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Study evaluates impacts of summer heat in U.S. prison environments

MIT researchers identify facility-level factors that could worsen heat impacts for incarcerated people.
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Danielle Wood Promoted to Associate Professor

Danielle Wood was recently promoted to Associate Professor in the Program of Media Arts & Sciences.
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Alvin Harvey receives 2024 PKG Public Service Award

This award recognizes students who are building a better world.
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Pioneering Space Exploration + Data: Women Lead MIT Media Lab's Future Worlds Research

At the MIT Media Lab, visionary women are at the forefront of groundbreaking research in space exploration and sustainable climate solution…
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Two nations, a horrible accident, and the urgent need to understand the laws of space

Professor Danielle Wood and other experts consider what it means that the Outer Space Treaty defines space as the “province of all mankind."
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Danielle Wood named 2024 Just Tech Fellow

Wood will lead projects that apply satellite Earth Observation technology for environmental management.
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Alvin Harvey selected for 2024 MIT RISE Mens et Manus Award

To be nominated for this award, the student must have made a lasting impact on the MIT community.
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Sharif Islam Named 2024 IAF Emerging Space Leader

Dr. Sharif Islam was selected as a 2024 IAF Emerging Space Leader.
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Ufuoma Ovienmhada Publishes Paper on "Perspectives from Anti-Prison Community Organizers on the Uses of Geospatial Data"

Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Ahmed Diongue, and Danielle Wood publish paper on perspectives from anti-prison community organizers on geospatial data.
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Danielle Wood and Co-Authors Publish Paper on Space Technology and Sustainable Development Goals

"Challenges and progress in applying space technology in support of the sustainable development goals."
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Danielle Wood Speaks at New Space Africa 2024

The US Department of Commerce invited Wood to speak at New Space Africa about Space Enabled's NASA-funded Angola drought project.
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Ufuoma Ovienmhada Publishes Review paper on Environmental Justice Review and satellite data

Ufuoma Ovienmhada publishes "Satellite data for environmental justice: a scoping review of the literature in the United States."
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Minoo Rathnasabapathy and Danielle Wood Publish Paper on Emerging Space Nations and Space Sustainability

Dr. Minoo Rathnasabapathy and Prof. Danielle Wood recently published "Role of emerging nations in ensuring long-term space sustainability."
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Alessandra Davy-Falconi wins 2024 MIT Excellence Award

The award acknowledges the extraordinary efforts made by members of the MIT community.
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Danielle Wood and collaborators at IPN in Mexico publish paper on satellite data to map urban sprawl

In IEEE Latin America Transactions, "Assessing Human Settlement Sprawl in Mexico via Remote Sensing and Deep Learning."
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Danielle Wood Speaks at AAAS 2024

Prof. Danielle Wood spoke as an invited lecturer at the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s annual meeting.
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Danielle Wood co-hosts Space Traffic Management Conference at UT Austin

Danielle Wood co-hosts the Space Traffic Management Conference, themed around "Inflection Points of Change: Civil, Commercial & Security."
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Ufuoma Ovienmhada chosen for Agents of Change in Environmental Justice Program

PhD candidate Ufuoma Ovienmhada was chosen as one of 2024's cohort of the Agents of Change in Environmental Justice program.
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Danielle Wood featured on Science Friday

Danielle Wood spoke on NPR's Science Friday about space law and other topics.
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Neil Gaikwad Accepted to Future Leaders Summit 2024

PhD candidate Neil Gaikwad was recently accepted to the MIDAS Future Leaders Summit.
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Culturally Informed Design: Unearthing ingenuity where it always was

In this interview with MIT MAD, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar discusses his work, which explores the intersection of culture and technology.
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Danielle Wood on Bloomberg Markets: The Close

On Bloomberg TV, Professor Danielle Wood talks to Romaine Bostick about the use of satellite data for environmental management.
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Sharif Islam named ESIP Community Fellow and Future Earth Coasts Fellow

Dr. Sharif Islam, a postdoctoral associate in the Space Enabled research group, has been selected as an ESIP Community Fellow and FEC Fellow
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AGU's Eos features Ufuoma Ovienmhada in "Satellites Map Environmental Vulnerabilities in U.S. Prisons"

Ufuoma Ovienmhada's doctoral research in Space Enabled applies satellite data to map environmental hazards faced by people living in prisons
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Mia Hines + Ufuoma Ovienmhada highlighted for Environmental Justice Research by MIT IDSS

Mia Hines and Ufuoma Ovienmhada share motivations for applying satellite data to promote environmental justice for people living in prisons
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Space Enabled launches two payloads on Blue Origin Suborbital Space Flight

Space Enabled experiments study dynamics of liquid wax in microgravity to inspire future low cost satellite fuel options
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Student interns reflect on their time at the MIT Summer Research Program

Several summer interns at the Media Lab talk about their experiences., the research they conducted, and what they learned.
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IAP 2024

An evolving list of IAP activities hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other MIT departments during 2024.
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Danielle Wood speaks at United Nations' COP28 in Dubai

Danielle Wood @ COP28 in DubaiProf. Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group, will speak at several events hosted on the…
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Danielle Wood Speaks at GEO Week in Cape Town, South Africa

Dannielle Wood spoke at GEO Week in South Africa, held this year November 6-10 in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Space Enabled Presents at the 2023 American Geophysical Union Conference

Highlighting work from Danielle Wood, Sharif Islam, Ufuoma Ovienmhada, Katlyn Turner, and Priscilla Baltezar.
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Yiyun Zhang and Ufuoma Ovienmhada Featured in "Future Leaders in Aerospace"

Zhang and Ovienmhada were featured in "Future Leaders in Aerospace," hosted by the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
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Jackie Smith Attends COSMIC Kickoff Event 2023

Jackie Smith attends 2023 kickoff meeting for the Consortium for Space Mobility and ISAM Capabilities (COSMIC)
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Yiyun Zhang Presents at Space4Women Expert Meeting by UNOOSA and CSA

Presenting work at the UN/Canada Space4Women "Building capacity to promote and advance gender equality in the space sector."
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Research Group Overview: Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space
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Space Enabled Presents at the 2023 International Astronautical Congress (IAC)

Space Enabled Presents at the International Astronautical Congress, 2023Title: The Zero Robotics Program Invites Youth to Program Robots on…
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Summer 2023 recommended reading from MIT

The 2023 MIT recommended summer reading list includes a chapter in "Reclaiming Space" authored by Professor Danielle Wood.
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Danielle Wood Contributes to NASA Decadal Survey

Danielle Wood contributed as a committee member to the NASA Decadal Survey on Biological and Physical Sciences.
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Kevin O'Connell Hosts Dr. Zolana Joao on Space Economy Podcast

Kevin O'Connell, former director at the Office of Space Commerce, interviewed Dr. Zolana Joao on the 3rd episode of Space Economy Insights.
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Feet on Earth, head in the stars

These five women at the MIT Media Lab are advancing aerospace science and research, driven by a love of our home planet.
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Affiliate Elena Cirkovic Publishes Chapter in Handbook of International Law and Anthropocentrism and Presents at ISEA 2023

Space Enabled Affiliate Elena Cirkovic compared the Law of The Sea, the forthcoming UN High Seas Treaty, and and the Outer Space Treaty.
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Danielle Wood speaks at national technology conference in Angola

Prof Wood's presentation is part of a long term cooperation with the Angolan space program to apply satellite data for drought response
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Team Space Enabled participates in "Summit for Space Sustainability"

Jackie Smith, doctoral student in Team Space Enabled, participates in the Summit for Space Sustainability which is hosted by the Secure Wor…
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EVDT Collaborator, Dr. Mitchell Kirschner, Presents on Systems Engineering for Disaster Management

Dr. Mitchell Kirschner presents at the Integrate23 Digital Engineering Conference applying the EVDT Framework to Disaster ManagementDr. Mit…
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Belén Saldías Fuentes and Ufuoma Ovienmhada honored during 2023 MIT Graduate Women of Excellence Ceremony

Belén and Ufuoma received these awards at the 2023 Graduate Women of Excellence Ceremony in the Samberg Conference Center on May 8.
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Danielle Wood Presents to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space in Vienna

Prof. Wood is invited for a third time to serve as a Private Sector Advisor to the US government delegation to this UN space policy forum
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Zero Robotics Receives International Space Station Research Award for Innovation in STEM Engagement

The team won for STEM Engagement for successfully transferring the Zero Robotics global competition from SPHERES to Astrobee.
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Yiyun Zhang Presents at Atlanta Conference on Science and Innovation Policy

PhD student Yiyun Zhang presented "Using Zero Robotics as a study case for Intersectional Antiracist Technology Framework."
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Space Enabled UROP Dinuri Rupasinghe Awarded AeroAstro Doolittle Prize

Doolittle Prize is given for outstanding achievement in the design, construction, execution and reporting of an undergraduate project.
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Chelsea Barabas Publishes "Care as (re)capture: Data colonialism and race during times of crisis"

Examining the role data-driven technologies play in expanding and reasserting the legitimacy of the US racial state during crises.
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Congratulations to everyone graduating in 2023!

We're so proud of everything you've accomplished here, and can't wait to see what you do next.
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Prathima Muniyappa and Alexandra Rieger among 2023 cohort of MIT MAD Design Fellows

The MAD Fellowship is an opportunity for MIT grad students to propose a research-oriented or personal design project.
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Amelia Lee Dogan's Sustainability Work Featured in Recent MIT News Articles

Amelia Dogan, senior at MIT whose undergraduate thesis is advised by Danielle Wood, was featured by MIT News for her work in sustainability.
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Danielle Wood Wins MIT's "Teaching with Digital Technology" Award

Danielle Wood was selected as a 2023 winner of MIT's Teaching with Digital Technology Award.