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MIT’s top research stories of 2025

MIT’s top research stories of 2025

12.22.25
“Finding a problem in my community and then finding the right technology to solve that … is what guides all the things I do,” says senior Julianna Schneider. She deploys skills from robotics to app development to make lives better through technology.

“Wait, we have the tech skills to build that”

12.19.25
Paula Hammond ’84, PhD ’93, an Institute Professor and MIT’s executive vice provost, has been named dean of MIT’s School of Engineering, effective Jan. 16.

Paula Hammond named dean of the School of Engineering

12.05.25
A new study from MIT reveals how a high-fat diet rewires liver cells and makes them more susceptible to becoming cancerous.

Study: High-fat diets make liver cells more likely to become cancerous

12.22.25
Metallurgist Diran Apelian led the Department of Materials Science and Engineering’s Wulff Lecture on Nov. 19, urging researchers to engineer reuse and recycling into materials from the start.

Building reuse into the materials around us

12.18.25
MIT researchers found that many so-called “ineffective” networks may simply start from less-than-ideal starting points, and that short-term guidance can strengthen their performance.

Guided learning lets “untrainable” neural networks realize their potential

12.18.25
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Judah Cohen’s model won first place for the fall season in the 2025 AI WeatherQuest subseasonal forecasting competition. The winning model combined machine-learning pattern recognition with the same Arctic diagnostics Cohen has refined over decades. The model detected a potential cold surge in mid-December for the U.S. East Coast weeks before such signals typically arise. The forecast was widely publicized in the media in real-time.

Decoding the Arctic to predict winter weather

01.08.26