Machinery of the state
Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.
Associate Professor Mai Hassan documents bureaucratic systems in Eastern Africa set up for coercion, as well as roadblocks to democratic government.
Professor Emeritus Donald Sadoway, renowned electrochemist and influential educator, reflects on 45 years at MIT.
Whether spending late nights at the observatory or working on animated films, senior Skylar Larsen is reaching for the stars.
With new techniques in electron microscopy, James LeBeau explores the nanoscale landscape within materials to understand their properties.
Associate Professor Noah Nathan is generating a body of scholarship on the political impacts of urbanization throughout the global South.
Senior David Spicer advocates for students at MIT and beyond as he cultivates his interest in education policy.
In an MIT summer research program, Rita Anoh learned about molecular machines and the value of collaborations.
The MIT professor combines geophysics and geology to understand what’s happening beneath the crust.
Using biological, chemical, and engineering tools, she has developed strategies to attack molecules once thought to be “undruggable.”
Carlo Ratti investigates how digital technologies transform our urban spaces and how they can be harnessed to design sustainable cities for the future.
Graduate student Skylar Dannhoff discovers the collaborative world of fusion research.
With NEET, Sherry Nyeo is discovering MIT’s undergraduate research community at the intersection of computer science and biological engineering.
PhD candidate Raúl Mojica Soto-Albors seeks to understand the rules of plasticity that underlie neuronal behavior.
Senior Susan Su finds inspiration in both makerspaces and performance spaces.
A fourth-generation civil engineer, graduate student Katerina Boukin researches the growing yet misunderstood threat of pluvial flooding, including flash floods.