The Real World
Located in Lexington, MA, The MIT Lincoln Laboratory Beaver Works Center gives students the opportunity to creatively explore solutio...
3Q: Muriel Médard on the World-altering Rise of 5G
The rise of 5G, or fifth generation, mobile technologies is refashioning the wireless communications and networking industry. The Sch...
Entering the Animal World
On a field trip, Harriet Ritvo and her MIT students went to look at preserved animals on public display, or stored as lab specimens, ...
Helping cassava farmers by extending crop life
The root vegetable cassava is a major food staple in dozens of countries across the world. Drought-resistant, nutritious, and tasty, ...
Demystifying artificial intelligence
Natalie Lao was set on becoming an electrical engineer, like her parents, until she stumbled on course 6.S192 (Making Mobile Apps), ...
Ties with MIT Run Deep for the U.S. Navy’s Top Officer
Looking back on his MIT graduate student days in the late 1980s, Admiral John M. Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 recalls a q...
Creating “Big, Beautiful Things”
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other...
Building communities, founding a startup with people in mind
MIT postdoc Francesco Benedetti admits he wasn’t always a star student. But the people he met along his educational journey inspi...
Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working with collaborators in Uganda on a solution for the health hazards associated...
A pet brand on a mission
Two years ago, as Rhett James was starting a dual-degree MBA/master’s degree in city planning, a chance meeting with Leyou Tame...