Student, Alum Team Up to Combat Covid
“One of the reasons I like to interview for MIT is to be inspired—and maybe inspire a little bit back,” says George Hu ’89, a...
GrubHub Founder Starts a Handy Alternative to the Gig Economy
It started not with a stroke of creative genius, but with a rain barrel that Mike Evans ’99, MEng ’00, wanted to install in his g...
MIT Alumnus and GM Engineer Returns to Campus to Inspire Student Innovation
Will Dickson ’14 has parked General Motors’ first self-driving vehicle, the Cruise AV, on campus and invited MIT students to thin...
Ties with MIT Run Deep for the U.S. Navy’s Top Officer
Looking back on his MIT graduate student days in the late 1980s, Admiral John M. Richardson SM ’89, EE ’89, ENG ’89 recalls a q...
The Heart of the Materials
Felipe de Quesada is cut out to be a materials scientist. He likes to design things and see how they work at a microscale: to look at...
The Ingestible Bacterial-Electronic Sensor
MIT researchers have built an ingestible sensor equipped with genetically engineered bacteria that can diagnose bleeding in the stoma...
Stepping Out of the Comfort Zone
This month is Independent Activities Period (IAP) at MIT, a four-week period when students, faculty, staff, and alumni organize and e...
Advancing Nuclear Power and Empowering Girls
When she was 16, Monica Pham mapped out her future. “My chemistry teacher was talking about how atoms could generate unlimited powe...
The Warmup
With graduation on the horizon, MIT students Gabe Alba and Victoria Gregory have work to do. They have a promising idea, a series of ...
Creating “Big, Beautiful Things”
Garrett Parrish grew up singing and dancing as a theater kid, influenced by his older siblings, one of whom is an actor and the other...