Improving sanitation for the world’s most vulnerable people
With deep roots at MIT, the startup change:WATER Labs has created a toilet that treats waste without water or power.
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Stefanie Mueller changes everything: A hands-on class responds to Covid
Assistant professor adapts her laboratory class, Engineering Interactive Technologies, to the pandemic, with surprising results.
The catalyzing potential of J-WAFS seed grants
MIT junior faculty explore new research directions and achieve powerful career advancement enabled by J-WAFS’ mission-driven grant program focused on water and food solutions.
Students, activists, police share views about campus safety
Forum features a range of experiences and perspectives about law enforcement and equity.
Meet the research scientists behind MITEI’s Electric Power Systems Center
Team brings diverse backgrounds and expertise to address technology and policy challenges for the clean energy transition.
RAND study finds significant social and economic impacts by Lemelson-MIT Prize-winning inventors
Awardees have created new products, companies, and even entirely new industries, employing over 40,000 workers.
Reductions in CFC-11 emissions put ozone recovery back on track
Scientists observe reduction in emissions of banned ozone-depleting chemical after unexpected spike.
Physicists discover important new property for graphene
Unconventional form of ferroelectricity could impact next-generation computing.
Fabricating fully functional drones
CSAIL's “LaserFactory” system automates the full process for making functional devices in one system.
Examining the world through signals and systems
Assistant Professor Cathy Wu aims to help autonomous vehicles fulfill their promise by better understanding how to integrate them into the transportation system.
Byte-sized learning
2021 IAP offerings from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ranged from the playful to the profound.
New fiber optic temperature sensing approach to keep fusion power plants running
MIT’s Erica Salazar shows that faster detection of thermal shifts can prevent disruptive quench events in the HTS magnets used in tokamak fusion devices.
Building equity into vaccine distribution
MIT economist works to show how therapies can be allocated fairly; states are now applying the method in their efforts.
“I know what you bought at Chipotle”
A new algorithm offers insights into consumer spending by identifying what someone purchased from only the bill total.
MIT convenes influential industry leaders in the fight against climate change
The MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium launches with 13 company members to work with MIT on innovation in climate and sustainability.