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The 2026 MacVicar Faculty Fellows are Amos Winter (left) and Nikolai Zeldovich.

2026 MacVicar Faculty Fellows named

03.12.26
John Ochsendorf has been appointed to lead an initiative strengthening research strategy, support, and funding across the School of Architecture and Planning.

John Ochsendorf named associate dean for research for the School of Architecture and Planning

03.18.26
A new class of photonic chips that use light instead of electricity to process data features arrays of microscopic structures that curl upward like tiny, glowing ski jumps. Researchers can precisely control how light is emitted from thousands of these structures simultaneously.

New photonic device efficiently beams light into free space

03.11.26
Boron nitride nanotubes offer a lightweight, high-performance way to block radiation without compromising mechanical integrity, says MIT PhD student Palak Patel.

Finding a nanoscale solution to safer spaceflight

03.11.26
Through industry collaboration and shared expertise, the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab supports MIT faculty as they build research teams and advance theory and applications in AI and engineering.

MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab seed to signal: Amplifying early-career faculty impact

03.17.26
“It wasn’t until I started working with Desirée [Plata] that I started applying materials science as a tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. That was a profound insight,” says Audrey Parker.

From Idaho to MIT, on a quest to cut methane emissions

03.15.26
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“We are trying to include humans in these human-AI systems, so that we are facilitating humans to collectively reflect and reimagine, instead of having isolated AI agents that do everything. We want humans to become more creative through the usage of AI,” Sebastián Andrés Cajas Ordoñez says.

How to create “humble” AI

03.24.26