Mitigating hazards with vulnerability in mind
To mitigate natural hazards equitably, PhD candidate Ipek Bensu Manav of the MIT CSHub is incorporating social vulnerability into resilience engineering and hazard recovery.
J-WAFS announces 2021 Solutions Grants for commercializing water and food technologies
This year’s projects address mobile evaporative vegetable preservation, portable water filtration, and dairy waste reduction.
Helping underrepresented doctoral students of color thrive in the broader MIT community
For the past seven years, the MIT University Center for Exemplary Mentoring has created a robust infrastructure of resources, people, and support.
Who can bend light for cheaper internet?
ARROW, a reconfigurable fiber optics network developed at MIT, aims to take on the end of Moore’s law.
Drug delivery capsule could replace injections for protein drugs
The new pill can inject large quantities of monoclonal antibodies and other drugs into the lining of the stomach after being swallowed.
The boiling crisis — and how to avoid it
PhD student Madhumitha Ravichandran identifies the three main factors that trigger the boiling crisis through machine learning models.
3 Questions: Peko Hosoi on the data-driven reasoning behind MIT’s Covid-19 policies for the fall
“We have not played all our cards yet,” says the associate dean of engineering and co-founder of the Isolat modeling group.
School of Science welcomes new faculty
Eight professors begin in the departments of Biology; Brain and Cognitive Sciences; Chemistry; Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences; and Physics.
Climate and sustainability classes expand at MIT
MIT offers over 120 undergraduate classes related to sustainability, a sign of growing student and faculty interest in the environmental impacts of their fields.
Last-mile routing research challenge awards $175,000 to three winning teams
Competing research teams trained machine learning models to predict optimal routing based on real field datasets.