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Emery Brown; Daniel Hastings SM ’78, PhD ’80; and Douglas Lauffenburger (left to right) have been awarded MIT’s highest faculty honor: the title of Institute Professor.

Emery Brown, Daniel Hastings, and Douglas Lauffenburger named Institute Professors

MIT researchers have created a way to make more climate-informed energy siting choices and shown how it can be used to make energy systems more resilient and reduce blackouts.

For energy systems that power a reliable grid, the future is all about location

In the new process, resin pellets are melted and then extruded to make stretchy, hair-thin fibers that can be recycled. “You just melt it in a barrel with a heater, and then you extrude and spin it into fibers,” SeongHyeon Kim says. “It’s like a spaghetti machine.”

MIT engineers design recyclable elastic yarn

Diana Grass develops soft bioelectronic devices that monitor how neural communication coordinates physiology across the entire body.

Diana Grass: Listening to the body’s language

MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering postdoc Hajin Kim-Tackowiak (left) and graduate student Zane Schemmer pose with the 3D-printed concrete bridge they designed and load-tested.

3D-printed bridge points the way to greener construction

“From the beginning, I got this sense of belonging at MIT — like my ways of thinking and problem-solving, which had seemed peculiar in many situations, actually made me belong more,” says Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan. “This was a super refreshing feeling, and it has been 100 percent borne out since I arrived.”

Following the questions where they lead