Broadcasting rights
MIT professor Heather Hendershot studies the conservative movement’s strategic use of television through the decades.
Bringing ‘common sense’ to text analytics
Luminoso Technologies uses artificial-intelligence research as a commercial springboard.
Ruben Juanes unravels the mysteries of underground flows
CEE professor’s studies of how fluids move underground could help with cleaner energy production and water supplies.
Mappers, modelers and an anthropologist
HASTS doctoral student Tom Schilling is conducting an anthropological study of geology, forestry and First Nations-led mapping and modeling in rural British Columbia.
Big game hunter
MIT sociologist T.L. Taylor studies the subcultures of online gaming and the nascent world of online e-sports.
Accounting for everyone
Rodrigo Verdi teaches accounting, the ‘language of business’ — and studies the links between accounting and market movements.
An entrepreneur aims to work in Africa
Graduate student Sarah Dimson is hatching plans for renewable energy and affordable housing in Tanzania.
Dental scanner allows researcher to sink his teeth into entrepreneurship
Novel 3-D oral scanner, developed by MIT professor Douglas Hart and then sold to 3M, is helping dentists go digital.
Solving the mysteries of regeneration
Biologist Peter Reddien seeks to understand planarians’ famous ability to grow new body parts.
A worm’s-eye view of immunity
Biology professor Dennis Kim seeks to understand the physiology and evolution of host-microbe interactions by studying a simple worm.
Professor emeritus Rodney Brooks refines the sequel to iRobot
Rodney Brooks’ startup, Rethink Robotics, is producing robots that can adapt to manufacturing tasks and the factory environment.
From theory to practice
PhD student Kuang Xu has found a way to apply predictive modeling to improve emergency-room wait times.
The brains behind research on the brain
Mehmet Fatih Yanik develops tools to answer some of the central questions in neuroscience.
Linguistic puzzler
Graduate student Rafael Nonato travels to the fringes of the Amazon rainforest to explore the Brazilian native language of the Kĩsêdjê.
Unraveling bacterial behavior
Michael Laub studies the complex interactions that underlie cells’ responses to their environment.