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Supratim Das is determined to demystify lithium-ion batteries, by first understanding their flaws.

Lighting the way to better battery technology

Doctoral candidate Supratim Das wants the world to know how to make longer-lasting batteries that charge mobile phones and electric cars.

June 1, 2020

Erwin Franz, a first-year student in the System Design and Management program at MIT

Rapidly engineering ventilators for the Covid-19 pandemic

Erwin Franz's experiences with MIT System Design and Management had a major effect on his work with the rapid response team at Philips Respironics.

June 1, 2020

Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades, according to research from MIT professor Andrew Lo, shown speaking at the 2018 launch of the MIT Quest for Intelligence.

How often do vaccine trials hit paydirt?

Study: Vaccines find more success in development than any other kind of drug, but have been relatively neglected in recent decades.

May 27, 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

White blood cells are among the first to mount an attack against sepsis, a deadly complication of Covid-19. In a project led by MIT Professor Daniela Rus, researchers are developing a machine learning system to detect an activated immune response to sepsis which could lead to earlier, more aggressive treatment. Here, a white blood cell attacks malaria.

Marshaling artificial intelligence in the fight against Covid-19

The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab is funding 10 research projects aimed at addressing the health and economic consequences of the pandemic.

May 19, 2020

Addison Stark (left) and Abigail Ostriker

Q&A: Energy studies at MIT and the next generation of energy leaders

Abigail Ostriker ’16 and Addison Stark SM ’10, PhD ’15 share how their experiences with MIT’s energy programs connect them to the global energy community.

May 18, 2020

Francesca O’Hanlon of Blue Tap delivered a pitch at the Water Innovation Prize on April 22. Her team won first place with a novel water chlorinating system that makes clean water affordable and accessible for users without existing access to healthy water supplies.

MIT student leaders go virtual with global startup competitions

In the face of Covid-19, the MIT Water Club and the MIT Food and Agriculture Club take their signature innovation prizes online.

May 15, 2020

"This was definitely one of the highlights of my MBA," said Benjamin Boutboul, grad student in MIT Sloan and a leader of the 40-participant Africa Takes On Covid-19 virtual hackathon. "I am so proud of us and what we all accomplished together."

MIT builds community for the Africa Takes On Covid-19 challenge

Some 40 students pull off a global virtual hackathon in less than two weeks.

May 14, 2020

“There aren’t many ways to escape the apparent choice between protecting public health and protecting the economy,” says MIT economist Pierre Azoulay. “There is only one, and that’s innovation.”

An innovation plan to beat Covid-19

MIT economist Pierre Azoulay outlines a roadmap for scientific success against the virus.

May 8, 2020

The TILT team pitches at the IDEAS Generator dinner in fall 2019.

MIT IDEAS celebrates social innovation at the Institute

Seven teams of MIT social innovators receive funding to continue their ventures.

May 1, 2020

MIT’s Student Success Coaching program pairs students with volunteer “coaches,” who check in with them once a week through the end of the semester to see how they are transitioning to online learning and more generally, how they are doing during the COVID-19 crisis.

Weekly calls keep students connected to the Institute during a pandemic

Through the MIT Student Success Coaching program, volunteer faculty and staff check in with students to assist with whatever “bubbles up.”

May 1, 2020

Screenshot from MIT Sloan Executive Education's recent Platform Strategy live online program offering

MIT Sloan Executive Education pivots to live online courses

Jumping the digital learning curve is forging a whole new path for participant engagement and program delivery.

April 29, 2020

A report from the MIT Open Learning Workforce Education Project argues that higher education can and should play a vital role in providing workers with 21st-century skills suited to new technologies, as well as opportunities to move into better-paying jobs.

Workforce Education Project details how Covid-19 upends assumptions

Report finds that higher education institutions can play a significant role in reforming workforce education.

April 28, 2020

Graduate student Jean Pauphilet is a French PhD student in the Operations Research Center.

Optimizing complex decision-making

“Operations in practice are very messy, but I think that’s what makes them exciting,” says graduate student Jean Pauphilet.

April 22, 2020

Valerie Karplus, an assistant professor of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, is one of several MIT faculty who have played an organizing role in an effort focused on delivering masks, gloves, and gowns, all critical items worn by front-line health care workers during the Covid-19 emergency.

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.

April 21, 2020

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