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MIT’s top research stories of 2025

MIT’s top research stories of 2025

“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”

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

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

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

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