Launchpad for healthcare entrepreneurs
When Computation and Systems Biology PhD student Elvira Kinzina was diagnosed with Lyme disease during her first year at MIT, she str...
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...
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...
Data, Systems, and Society
Data is good. More data is better. And understanding how to use and make sense of large amounts of data is paramount. Munther Dahleh,...
Making steel with electricity
Steel is one of the most useful materials on the planet. A backbone of modern life, it’s used in skyscrapers, cars, airplanes, brid...
Fieldwork class examines signs of climate change in Hawaii
When Joy Domingo-Kameenui spent two weeks in her native Hawaii as part of MIT class 1.091 (Traveling Research Environmental eXperienc...
Compassionate mentorship both inside and outside the lab
Although his professional expertise lies in developing chemical catalysts, MIT Visiting Professor Karthish Manthiram also makes sure ...
Meet this year’s MathWorks Fellows: A three-part series, II
The cardiologist reviews the diagnostic images as they play across her screen. Her patient has developed a dangerous lesion in his va...
Healing with hydrogels
In November, mechanical engineering PhD candidate Hyunwoo Yuk earned the top prize at the Collegiate Inventors Competition hosted by ...