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Pesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition
Pesticide innovation takes top prize at Collegiate Inventors Competition

Vishnu Jayaprakash SM '19, PhD '22 won for the AgZen-Cloak, an invention that makes pesticides stick to crops, minimizing pollution and water waste.

Frank Sidney Jones, professor emeritus of urban affairs, dies at 93
Frank Sidney Jones, professor emeritus of urban affairs, dies at 93

The first African American to receive tenure at MIT, Jones championed greater diversity and inclusion at the Institute and beyond.

3 Questions: How AI image generators could help robots
3 Questions: How AI image generators could help robots

Yilun Du, a PhD student and MIT CSAIL affiliate, discusses the potential applications of generative art beyond the explosion of images that put the web into creative hysterics.

Seven with MIT ties receive awards from the American Physical Society
Seven with MIT ties receive awards from the American Physical Society

Professors Arup Chakraborty, Lina Necib, and Ronald Fernando Garcia Ruiz as well as Yuan Cao SM ’16, PhD ’20, Alina Kononov ’14; Elliott H. Lieb ’53; Haocun Yu PhD ’20; and others honored for contributions to physics.

Building with nanoparticles, from the bottom up
Building with nanoparticles, from the bottom up

Researchers develop a technique for precisely arranging nanoscale particles on a surface, such as a silicon chip, that doesn’t damage the material.

A faster experiment to find and study topological materials
A faster experiment to find and study topological materials

Using machine learning and simple X-ray spectra, researchers can uncover compounds that might enable next-generation computer chips or quantum devices.

Simplifying the production of lithium-ion batteries
Simplifying the production of lithium-ion batteries

MIT spinout 24M Technologies designed a battery that reduces the cost of manufacturing lithium-ion cells.

The tenured engineers of 2022
The tenured engineers of 2022

Fourteen faculty members have been granted tenure in five departments across the MIT School of Engineering.

Celebrating the life of undergraduate Mohamed Magdi Taha
Celebrating the life of undergraduate Mohamed Magdi Taha

Rising junior in Course 6-9 was “brave and compassionate” and strove to lift up others.

Desktop simulation of MIT.nano die bonder enables virtual tool training
Desktop simulation of MIT.nano die bonder enables virtual tool training

Digital twins to expand training capabilities through virtual reality.

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