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Making it through a pandemic senior year with curiosity and community
Making it through a pandemic senior year with curiosity and community

Miles Johnson ’21, a recent graduate in mathematics and EECS, employed a strong dorm network and personal interests including rock climbing and jazz to complete a rich MIT experience.

Contact-aware robot design
Contact-aware robot design

A novel method to represent robotic manipulators helps optimize complex and organic shapes for future machines.

MIT.nano receives American Institute of Architects’s Top Ten Award for sustainable design
MIT.nano receives American Institute of Architects’s Top Ten Award for sustainable design

“Committee on the Environment” recognizes integration of design excellence with environmental performance.

MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards named professorships to two faculty members
MIT Schwarzman College of Computing awards named professorships to two faculty members

Dina Katabi and Aleksander Madry receive additional support to pursue their research and develop their careers.

A noninvasive test to detect cancer cells and pinpoint their location
A noninvasive test to detect cancer cells and pinpoint their location

Diagnostic nanoparticles could be used to monitor tumor recurrence after treatment or to perform routine cancer screenings.

Waging a two-pronged campaign against climate change
Waging a two-pronged campaign against climate change

With MIGHTR, PhD student W. Robb Stewart aims to speed construction of new nuclear plants to help decarbonize the economy.

How aspirations become actions
How aspirations become actions

From Ethiopia to community college to MIT, Mussie Demisse ’21 is on a mission to use his love of learning to solve big problems.

Restoring amputees’ natural functionality with brain-controlled interfaces
Restoring amputees’ natural functionality with brain-controlled interfaces

MIT student Eeshan Tripathii is working with his sister to engineer an intuitive brain-controlled interface for upper-limb prosthetics.

Software to accelerate R&D
Software to accelerate R&D

The alumni-founded startup Uncountable has developed a digital workbook to help scientists get more out of experimental data.

Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Sertac Karaman named director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems

Associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics will head MIT’s longest continuously-running lab.

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