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Mobility Systems Center awards four projects for low-carbon transportation research

Topics include Covid-19 and urban mobility, strategies for electric vehicle charging networks, and infrastructure and economics for hydrogen-fueled transportation.

August 18, 2020

Philip Kuai of the Dada Group rings the NASDAQ opening bell.

Crowdsourced grocery delivery service thrives despite pandemic woes

Philip Kuai MNG '07 leads first fully virtual investor roadshow to bring his company, Dada Group, to an initial public offering in New York.

August 12, 2020

2020 MITEI Energy Conference

MIT Energy Conference goes virtual

Annual student-run energy conference pivots to successful online event with short notice in response to the coronavirus.

August 7, 2020

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When the chemical industry met modern architecture

PhD student Jessica Varner traces the way synthetic building materials have transformed our environment.

August 6, 2020

In less than six weeks, a donation drive in Greater China yielded 15,000 N95 respirator masks and 1,000 medical gowns for use in Massachusetts hospitals.

Alumni in Greater China boost MIT's PPE efforts

A six-week donation drive yields 15,000 N95 respirator masks and 1,000 medical gowns for use in Massachusetts hospitals.

July 14, 2020

During the MicroMasters completion celebration, credential holder David Fong describes how his work with the nonprofit Spur Afrika was informed by his coursework in Data, Economics, and Development Policy.

Learners today, leaders tomorrow

MITx MicroMasters Program credential holders leverage MIT-caliber education to move their industries to the cutting edge.

July 13, 2020

MINE Program students and other program participants at a hackathon in Salvador, Brazil, are pictured here before the Covid-19 pandemic interrupted such gatherings.

Innovations in environmental training for the mining industry

MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative and multinational mining company Vale bring sustainability education to young engineering professionals in Brazil.

July 7, 2020

The startup macro-eyes is bringing new techniques in machine learning and artificial intelligence to global health problems like vaccine delivery and patient scheduling with its Connected Health AI Network (CHAIN).

Improving global health equity by helping clinics do more with less

The startup macro-eyes uses artificial intelligence to improve vaccine delivery and patient scheduling.

June 25, 2020

Over 100 experts participated in Trust CoLab, an innovative online exercise that developed a set of alternative scenarios about the future of medicine and health care. The exercise identified one potential development that quickly became quite salient: the prospect of global pandemic leading to drastic changes in health care practices.

Trust or consequences

More than 100 experts identify four scenarios that could shape people’s health between now and 2040.

June 18, 2020

A suburban warehouse hub common to food supply chains in the United States

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.

June 18, 2020

The Massachusetts Emergency Response Team (M-ERT) has been aided by a large group of MIT faculty, students, staff, and alumni as it has helped local manufacturers begin producing personal protective equipment. This photo, from April 13, 2020, shows Gov. Charlie Baker, left, and Brenna Schneider, CEO of 99Degrees, who holds one of the hundreds of thousands of medical isolation gowns her company has...

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.

June 9, 2020

A new manufacturing process for graphene is based on using an intermediate carrier layer of material after the graphene is laid down through a vapor deposition process.

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.

June 5, 2020

An edible silk-based coating developed by MIT Assistant Professor Benedetto Marelli can preserve food longer and prevent food waste. Marelli has teamed up with other Boston-based scientists to form Cambridge Crops, a spinout company using silk technologies to extend the shelf life of all sorts of perishable foods.

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.

June 5, 2020

Top row (left-right): Wesley G. Bush ’83; R. Erich Caulfield SM ’01, PhD ’06; Heather Cogdell ’89; Drew Faust; Orit Gadiesh. Middle row: Jeffrey S. Halis ’76, SM ’76; Michelle K. Lee ’89, SM ’89; Adrianna C. Ma ’96, MEng ’96; Victor J. Menezes SM ’72; Indra Nooyi. Bottom row: Adedoyin Olateru-Olagbegi ’20; Phillip T. Ragon ’72; Jeffrey L. Silverman ’68; Janet C. Wolfenb...

MIT Corporation elects 12 term members, three life members

Term members will serve between one and five years on MIT’s board of trustees.

May 29, 2020

For generations, dissertation defenses have been crowning moments for PhD candidates. Now, with the pandemic limiting activity on the MIT campus from mid-March onward, moving dissertation defenses to Zoom has been a necessary adjustment.

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.

May 22, 2020