Pushing the envelope with fusion magnets
MIT Energy Fellow David Fischer irradiates high-temperature superconducting tape to test its resilience and prepare for the first pilot fusion plant.
A storyteller dedicated to environmental justice
Exploring her identity through writing has clarified senior Mimi Wahid’s desire to serve rural Southern communities like her hometown.
A new world of warcraft
Political scientist Erik Lin-Greenberg explores how a burgeoning high-tech arsenal is shaping military conflict.
Every vote counts for this math student
Graduate student Ashwin Narayan takes off the fall semester to work on an election information database.
A deep look at how financial markets are designed
Professor Haoxiang Zhu’s research has gained an audience beyond academia, reaching the finance industry and its regulators.
Designing new mirror materials for better gravitational-wave detection
Nicholas Demos, a first-generation college graduate and MathWorks Fellow in MIT’s Kavli Institute, is improving our ability to listen to the cosmos.
Yogesh Surendranath wants to decarbonize our energy systems
By developing novel electrochemical reactions, he hopes to find new ways to generate energy and reduce greenhouse gases.
Finding patterns in the noise
Using novel computational approaches, graduate student Sean Liu develops better tools for analyzing data.
Kofi Blake is bringing people together
“There’s no greater feeling than when you’re with all your classmates and they’re having a great time,” says MIT’s senior class president.
Sheila Widnall: A lifetime exploring the unknown
During 64 years at MIT, the Institute Professor Emerita has been a trailblazer in aerospace and the U.S. military, and a changemaker for women in STEM.
A champion of renewable energy
MIT senior Darya Guettler advocates for climate action and broader deployment of zero-carbon energy sources.
Saving Iñupiaq
Linguistics graduate student Annauk Olin is helping her Alaska Native community preserve their language and navigate the severe impact of climate change.
Sarah Williams: Applying a data-driven approach to help cities function
“We hear big data is going to change the world, but I don’t believe it will unless we synthesize it into tools with a public benefit,” she says.
A chemist who plays with space
Alison Wendlandt explores how the layout of atoms in molecules, such as sugars and drugs, can affect their nature and our bodies.
Listening to immigrant and indigenous Pacific Islander voices
As a community activist and scholar, PhD candidate Kevin Lee has a lot on his plate. But “when things matter so deeply in your bones, the energy just comes,” he says.