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MIT launches a “moonshot for menstruation science”

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The MIT Health and Life Sciences Collaborative (MIT HEALS) has announced the establishment of the Fairbairn Menstruation Science Fund, supporting a bold, high-impact initiative designed to revolutionize women’s health research.

Established through a gift from Emily and Malcolm Fairbairn, the fund will advance groundbreaking research on the function of the human uterus and its impact on sex-based differences in human immunology that contribute to gynecological disorders such as endometriosis, as well as other chronic systemic inflammatory diseases that disproportionately affect women, such as Lyme disease and lupus. The Fairbairns, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, have committed $10 million, with a call to action for an additional $10 million in matching funds.

“I’m deeply grateful to Emily and Malcolm Fairbairn for their visionary support of menstruation science at MIT. For too long, this area of research has lacked broad scientific investment and visibility, despite its profound impact on the health and lives of over half the population,” says Anantha P.

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$20 million gift supports theoretical physics research and education at MIT 

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A $20 million gift from the Leinweber Foundation, in addition to a $5 million commitment from the MIT School of Science, will support theoretical physics research and education at MIT.

Leinweber Foundation gifts to five institutions, totaling $90 million, will establish the newly renamed MIT Center for Theoretical Physics – A Leinweber Institute within the Department of Physics, affiliated with the Laboratory for Nuclear Science at the School of Science, as well as Leinweber Institutes for Theoretical Physics at three other top research universities: the University of Michigan, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of Chicago, as well as a Leinweber Forum for Theoretical and Quantum Physics at the Institute for Advanced Study.

“MIT has one of the strongest and broadest theory groups in the world,” says Professor Washington Taylor, the director of the newly funded center and a leading researcher in string theory and its connection to observable particle physics and cosmology.

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MIT Department of Economics to launch James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work

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Starting in July, MIT’s Shaping the Future of Work Initiative in the Department of Economics will usher in a significant new era of research, policy, and education of the next generation of scholars, made possible by a gift from the James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Foundation. In recognition of the gift and the expansion of priorities it supports, on July 1 the initiative will become part of the new James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work. This center will be officially launched at a public event in fall 2025.

The Stone Center will be led by Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, and co-directors David Autor, the Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor in Economics, and Simon Johnson, the Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship. It will join a global network of 11 other wealth inequality centers funded by the Stone Foundation as part of an effort to advance research on the causes and consequences of the growing accumulation at the top of the wealth distribution.

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