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MIT speaker series taps into students’ passion for entrepreneurship and social impact.

The program’s success is prompting the Venture Mentoring Service to bolster its offerings for entrepreneurs starting businesses aimed at making positive change.

June 26, 2023

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Panel addresses technologies needed for a net-zero future

Critical needs for curbing greenhouse gases include non-fossil fuel aviation, buildings, electric grids, industrial processes, and the potential of fusion power.

June 23, 2023

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MIT engineering students take on the heat of Miami

A collaboration between MIT and Miami-Dade County has students working with city planning officials to understand why people wait patiently for a bus — and why they bail.

June 23, 2023

Abhay Ram stands in front of a whiteboard, holding an open physics textbook.

A new mathematical “blueprint” is accelerating fusion device development

New research explores how Dyson maps are putting quantum computers to work in designing fusion energy devices.

June 22, 2023

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MIT PhD student enhances STEM education in underrepresented communities in Puerto Rico

Through her organization, Sprouting, Taylor Baum is empowering teachers to teach coding and computer science in their classrooms and communities.

June 22, 2023

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A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients

C16 Biosciences, founded by MIT alumni, has developed a microbial oil to replace palm oil, whose production reaps environmental devastation.

June 22, 2023

Professor Emeritus Roman Jackiw, “giant of theoretical physics,” dies at 83

Over more than 50 years at MIT, he made fundamental contributions to quantum field theory and discovered topological and geometric phenomena.

June 20, 2023

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Crystan McLymore SM ’23: Exceling at sea and in the lab

US Navy officer and recent MechE alumna who served on a nuclear aircraft carrier researches radiation detection.

June 16, 2023

Inside a petri dish are about 20 circular hydrogel discs. They are transparent, shiny, and appear soft.

This salty gel could harvest water from desert air

A new material developed by MIT engineers exhibits “record-breaking” vapor absorption.

June 15, 2023

Studying phages far from home

Biology graduate student Tong Zhang has spent the last two years learning the intricacies of how bacteria protect themselves.

June 12, 2023

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MIT PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge grants more than $60,000 to student-led teams to address pressing societal issues

The Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center's IDEAS program empowers teams partnering with communities to tackle a range of social challenges.

June 12, 2023

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A clean alternative to one of the world’s most common ingredients

Professor Emeritus Roman Jackiw, “giant of theoretical physics,” dies at 83

Crystan McLymore SM ’23: Exceling at sea and in the lab

This salty gel could harvest water from desert air

Studying phages far from home

MIT PKG IDEAS Social Innovation Challenge grants more than $60,000 to student-led teams to address pressing societal issues

Arina Khotimsky ’23 awarded 2023 Michel David-Weill Scholarship

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