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Near real-time, peer-reviewed hypothesis verification informs FEMA on Covid-19 supply chain risks
The MIT Humanitarian Supply Chain Lab implements a rapid assessment process to inform policy.
MIT plays key role in statewide effort to produce PPE
Massachusetts Emergency Response Team helps manufacturers produce personal protective equipment and other medical devices for health care workers.
Transparent graphene electrodes might lead to new generation of solar cells
New roll-to-roll production method could enable lightweight, flexible solar devices and a new generation of display screens.
MIT startup wraps food in silk for better shelf life
Cambridge Crops develops an edible, imperceptible coating that might replace plastic packaging to preserve meats and produce.
MIT Corporation elects 12 term members, three life members
Term members will serve between one and five years on MIT’s board of trustees.
Inside the new world of online dissertation defenses
Emojis, grandmas logging in, and kudos from strangers: How MIT students have finished their PhDs during the pandemic.
A scientist turns to entrepreneurship
After delivering novel computational methods for nuclear problems, nuclear science and engineering PhD candidate Pablo Ducru plunges into startup life.
Helping artisanal miners in Colombia face the Covid-19 crisis
MIT D-Lab and local community partners to deliver virtual trainings on making masks, hand sanitizer, vertical gardens, and portable chicken coops.
The changing world of work
MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future responds to rapid changes brought by the pandemic.
Virtual hackathon unites international community to tackle Covid-19
University students and professionals connect online to find practical solutions to problems linked with the current pandemic.
Protecting seafarers and the global supply chain during Covid-19
Professor Thomas Peacock is a member of the UN Global Compact Task Force urging coordinated international response for offshore and shipping industries.
Q&A: Gregory Rutledge on initial testing of KN95 respirators for public health officials
MIT professor’s research group leverages its capability for testing filtration efficiency to assess certain respirators for MEMA, others.
MIT team draws on supply chain expertise to help protect health workers from Covid-19
The group is working to increase availability of personal protective equipment during the pandemic.
MIT team races to fill Covid-19-related ventilator shortage
An ad hoc team of engineers and doctors has developed a low-cost, open-source alternative, now ready for rapid production.