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Featured video: Sights and sounds of spring

For Memorial Day weekend, we offer this glimpse at our campus in full bloom.

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April 28, 2021

Happy Memorial Day!

For those who haven’t experienced the glorious sights of spring at MIT, we share this video of our campus in full bloom. The blossoms and greenery are accompanied by flutist Sara Simpson, a PhD student in Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

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Vanessa Chan presents in front of a lectern at MIT.

The spark of innovation and the commercialization journey

Entrepreneur and educator Vanessa Chan PhD ’00 explores how to bridge the gap between invention and market.

Enabling energy innovation at scale

As part of MITEI’s speaker series, The Engine CEO Emily Knight explained how to take “tough tech” innovation from idea to impact.

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Study: Burning heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is the best available option for bulk maritime shipping

Researchers analyzed the full lifecycle of several fuel options and found this approach has a comparable environmental impact, overall, to burning low-sulfur fuels.

Aerial view of MIT campus and Charles River

MIT graduate engineering and business programs ranked highly by U.S. News for 2025-26

Graduate engineering program is No. 1 in the nation; MIT Sloan is No. 5.

On left, the cover of the book, “Attention Shoppers! American Retail Capitalism and the Origins of the Amazon Economy” and on right, a portrait of Kathleen Thelen.

Supersize me

Political scientist Kathleen Thelen’s new book explains how America’s large retailers got very, very large.

Using a mixed reality headset, a researcher plays with a toy of the Disney character Stitch, a dog doll, and an iPod in a virtual environment. These scenes are depicted in rectangular frames over a purple background.

A new way to bring personal items to mixed reality

“InteRecon” enables users to capture items in a mobile app and reconstruct their interactive features in mixed reality. The tool could assist in education, medical environments, museums, and more.

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